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Pioneers, engineers, and scoundrels = the dawn of the automobile in America /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Pioneers, engineers, and scoundrels/ Beverly Rae Kimes.
其他題名:	the dawn of the automobile in America /
作者:	Kimes, Beverly Rae.
出版者:	Warrendale, Pa. (400 Commonwealth Dr., Wallendale PA USA) :Society of Automotive Engineers, : c2005.,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic text (xi, 532 p.) :ill., digital file. :
標題:	Automobiles - History. - United States -
電子資源:	http://digitallibrary.sae.org/content/R-358
ISBN:	9780768030730 (PDF)

Pioneers, engineers, and scoundrels = the dawn of the automobile in America /
Kimes, Beverly Rae.

Pioneers, engineers, and scoundrelsthe dawn of the automobile in America /[electronic resource] :Beverly Rae Kimes. - Warrendale, Pa. (400 Commonwealth Dr., Wallendale PA USA) :Society of Automotive Engineers,c2005. - 1 electronic text (xi, 532 p.) :ill., digital file. - Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications.. - Society of Automotive Engineers..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-483) and index.

Chapter 1. Oliver Evans, where it began -- Chapter 2. Steaming from turnpike to rail -- Chapter 3. Frustration, limitation, show business -- Chapter 4. Internal combustion arrives -- Chapter 5. Taking a back seat to Little Egypt -- Chapter 6. Pedaling toward the automobile -- Chapter 7. Sorting out and moving on -- Chapter 8. The electrifying Pope and Whitney -- Chapter 9. Growing pains -- Chapter 10. The horseless carriage becomes an automobile -- Chapter 11. Reaching for the limelight -- Chapter 12. Great minds, good maneuvers -- Chapter 13. Eastward, ho! -- Chapter 14. Licensing the industry -- Chapter 15Hopping on the bandwagon -- Chapter 16. Cads and bad autos -- Chapter 17. High gear and turbulence -- Chapter 18. Sticks and stones: autophobia and the law -- Chapter 19. Of ills and remedies -- Chapter 20. Highwheelers and panic -- Chapter 21. "There's millions in it" -- Chapter 22. The whirlwind man -- Chapter 23. The race for empire -- Chapter 24. Selden undone, hooray -- Chapter 25. From lawn to dust -- Chapter 26. Cheap, reliable, saleable -- Chapter 27. Henry and Lizzie -- Chapter 28. Games of mix, match, and hatch -- Chapter 29. Whoa: beyond motor Mecca -- Chapter 30. Electrified, gentrified, and politicized -- Chapter 31. Roads and recession, other battles loom -- Chapter 32. Gearing up for war, other battles won -- Chapter 33. Hardships of war -- Chapter 34. Boom goes bust -- Chapter 35. Forever a roller coaster -- Epilogue.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This book presents a unique and engagingly written portrait of the American automobile industry's early years, focusing on the individuals who dreamed, schemed, innovated, succeeded and failed in their quests for fame, fortune, glory, and knowledge. This is a book that tells a story like no other - a history of America, Americans, and their love affair with the "horse-less carriage."

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780768030730 (PDF)

Standard No.: 10.4271/R-358doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

955836
Automobiles
--History.--United StatesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: TL23 / .K55 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 629.222/0973

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