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Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Transportation w/ dust jacket
Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Transportation
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
256 pages
Copyright 1976
CONTENTS
A-Z aspects of transportation of land, sea and air transport
DUST JACKET
with over 400 illustrations and 16 pages of color plates
This is the first integrated encyclopedia of transportation, dealing with all aspects of land, sea and air transport from both an historical and modern technological perspective. It is a valuable reference and educational toola comprehensive encyclopedia designed to cover this important subject as a whole for the general public. It is also a book for those interested in some special aspect of transportation, such as railroad engines, racing cars, canal boats, river steamers, cargo ships, atomic submarines or supersonic aircraft. Transportation is a very wide-ranging field which for too long has been treated only from the point of view of one or another of its single aspects. Each of these has an extensive vocabulary of its own, reflecting its technology, and, in some cases, its peculiar traditions. But overall, the different means of transportation make up a genuine field, with an overlapping technology and a historical development that is of great interest to our times.
The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Transportation deals with every mode of transportation, with the general technical terms, and with the scientific principles that relate directly to the field. It also covers the achievements and products of engineering and science that make transportation possiblefrom astrolabes to radar, from ballistics to bridge building to wind tunnels. Only an encyclopedic approach can do justice to such a vast and diverse subject, and only an alphabetical presentation can make the entire subject available to the non-specialist.
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