transportation

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transportation

Traveling on the freedom machines of the transportation age

2003
Teaches about steamboats, railroads, and other nineteenth-century advances in transportation through a fictional story about an escaped slave named Joshua.

Riding the rails

rail travel past and present
2004
Traces the history and development of trains and railroad travel from ancient Greece to the high-speed trains of the late twentieth century.

On the road

road travel past and present
2004
Traces the history of road travel from the discovery of the wheel to the twenty-first century, and provides information about people and inventions that contributed to road travel progress.

Cycle Power

two-wheeled travel past and present
2004
Traces the history of two-wheeled travel from the invention of the first bicycles to the twenty-first century, and provides information about people and inventions that contributed to the advancement of two-wheeled transportation.

Red light, green light

2005
A young boy creates an imaginary world filled with zooming cars, flashing traffic lights, and racing fire engines.

Macmillan encyclopedia of science

from the bicycle to spacecraft
1997
An encyclopedia of science and technology covering a variety of vehicles used both on Earth and in space.

Bear on a bike

2006
A bear travels around the world using a wide variety of types of transportation.

Transportation

1994
Explores various methods of travel by such means as road, rail, air, and sea.

Conestogas and stagecoaches

1993
Looks at the role that stagecoaches and Conestoga wagons played in carrying mail and passengers throughout America, and especially the West, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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