transportation

Explores the beginnings of modern transportation in the nineteenth century, when the influx of immigrants required better roads, safe water routes, and railroads to be built across the United States.

Examines the top twenty-three careers in the transportation field in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, ways to get started, advancement possibilities, earnings, employment outlook, and working conditions; and includes sources of more information.

Presents a history of transportation from ancient humans using muscle to traveling in space and discusses different modes of transportation. Includes one CD of clip art.

Contains illustrations, photographs and descriptions of various ships, trains, cars, and planes from throughout history, and includes step-by-step instructions for fifty related projects and experiments.

Presents the words to a cumulative song about the different modes of transportation, sounds, and colors a group of children observes on the way to school, such as a chuffing, long blue train.

Surveys the development of land transportation in relation to the needs, skills, and technologies of people living at different periods of history.

Follows a young man as he uses different modes of transportation to make the long difficult trip from Massachusetts to Virginia in the spring of 1775.

Discusses how the ways that we think about environmentalism has affected the transportation systems.

A color-illustrated overview of transportation that describes a wide variety of vehicles including automobiles, bicycles and motorcycles, boats and ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.

Traces the history and development of vehicles and other machines used in warfare, from the Sumerian chariots to the computer-controlled devices of the twenty-first century.