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Automobile biographies; an account of the lives and the work of those who have been identified with the invention and development of self-propelled ve

Automobile biographies; an account of the lives and the work of those who have been identified with the invention and development of self-propelled ve

Horace Weeks, Lyman

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMotorcyclesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353801435
ISBN13: 9789353801434
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before the traffic jam, there was the experiment. Genius met the open road. In Automobile Biographies, Lyman Horace Weeks gathers the human stories behind the first machines that dared the common roads, tracing ambition, rivalry, and hard-won engineering from workshop sketches to running engines. It is brisk, lucid, and wonderfully specific. This automotive biography collection reads as transportation history nonfiction with a beating heart: an inventor biography anthology of mechanical engineering pioneers and early automobile inventors whose names shaped self-propelled vehicle development. Weeks follows the ideas that mattered - ignition, power, reliability, manufacture - and the people who pushed them through failure, scepticism, and sudden success. You will see the history of motor vehicles not as a straight line, but as a series of bold attempts, each answering the same question: how to build a practical car. For automotive history enthusiasts it offers context and character; for an engineering students reference it preserves the texture of real problem-solving. Written at the threshold of the early 20th century, the book captures gilded age technology in motion and records the automotive industry origins while memories were still close to the workbenches. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Collectors of classic motoring literature will prize its period voice and scope.

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