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Encyclopedia of American steam traction engines / by Norbeck, Jack.(CARDINAL)736809;
Subjects: Steam-engines;
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Steam tractors / by Halberstadt, Hans.(CARDINAL)504954;
MARCIVE 03/01/06
Subjects: Traction-engines; Farm tractors; Tractors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Floyd Clymer's Album of Historical Steam Traction Engines./ by Clymer, Floyd,1895-1970.(CARDINAL)128263;
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Floyd Clymer's album of historical steam traction engines. by Clymer, Floyd,1895-1970,author.(CARDINAL)128263;
"470 photos, drawings, charts. 105 different makes, American and foreign engines from 1855 to 1929"--Cover.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Steam-engines; Traction-engines; Threshing machines; Tractors; Steam locomotives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Farm motors : Practical hints for handy-men / by Davidson, Brownlee J.;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Gas, oil and alcohol engines; Steam-boilers; Windmills; Windmills; Traction-engines; Electric machinery; Farm equipment; Agriculture; Steam-engines;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Old farm tools and machinery : an illustrated history / by Blandford, Percy W.(CARDINAL)143608;
Bibliography: pages 183-184.As collector's items, old tools and implements, especially those connected with country crafts and occupations, are much sought after. As crowd-pullers, displays of agricultural machinery, particularly traction engine rallies and related examples of early motive power such a heavy-horse ploughing matches, are enjoying increasingly large audiences.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Agricultural implements; Agricultural implements; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural machinery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Transportation through the ages. / by Georgano, G. N.(CARDINAL)140358;
pt. 1. Before the Machine -- Man Alone -- Animal Aids -- pt. 2. Land Transportation: Roads -- The Pioneers in Steam -- The Traction Engine -- The Passenger Car -- Trucks and Trucking -- Buses and Streetcars -- Transportation on Two Wheels -- Transportation without Roads -- pt. 3. Land Transportation by Rail -- Railway Prehistory -- The Beginnings of Steam Locomotion -- Building the Netowrks -- Mechanical Development in the Nineteenth Century -- The Age of Steam -- Diesels, Electrics, and a Changing World -- pt. 4. Ships -- Paddles and Oars -- Sail -- Steamships -- pt. 5. Canals -- pt. 6. Avation -- From Prophecy to Practicality -- Ugly Duckling -- The Swan Emerges -- Wings Over the Ocean -- In Full Flight -- Faster and Higher -- Aviation into the Seventies -- Man into Space."This narrative history relates the whole exciting story of transportation and travel from prehistoric times to the present and describes how man, through his ingenuity and inventiveness, has found faster and easier ways of getting from place to place - on land, on water, and in the air..." "Feet came first. At the outset, two feet. Woman's feet. When primitive man made his grueling travels across trackless country, woman trudged along and it was she who carried the household goods, food, and perhaps a baby. Then, with the happy discovery that dogs could move faster and pull heavier loads, four-footed animals came into use." "Domestication of animals, the development of the harness, and the expansion of roads brought the heyday of coach travel. The dawn of the machine age introduced rail-roads and self-propelled vehicles such as trolley cars, automobiles, buses, and trucks. " "While man's efforts were focused on land travel, water also presented a challenge, for it soon became apparent that his progress was impeded by rivers and lakes. The date when man first ventured onto water is lost to antiquity, but from evidence available we can assume that floating logs fashioned into dugouts were the beginning. From these crude vessels, he eventually moved to faster, more efficient ocean-going ships. " "Transportation through the Ages concludes with an account of man's most phenomenal achievement - flight - from its unpromising beginning to today's era of space travel."--Jacket
Subjects: Transportation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tires and passenger vehicle fuel economy : informing consumers, improving performance / by National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.Committee for the National Tire Efficiency Study.(CARDINAL)308840;
Includes bibliographical references.Executive summary -- Introduction -- Background on passenger tires -- The tire's influence on passenger vehicle fuel consumption -- Rolling resistance, traction, and wear performance of passenger tires -- National consumer savings and costs -- Findings, conclusions, and recommendations -- Appendix: Explanation and comparison of Society of Automotive Engineers Test Procedures for rolling resistance / Marion G. Pottinger.
Subjects: Automobiles; Automobiles; Consumer education; Transportation, Automotive;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Track design handbook for light rail transit / by United States.Federal Transit Administration.(CARDINAL)217229; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas.(CARDINAL)134198; Transit Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)307612; Transit Development Corporation.(CARDINAL)307611;
Includes bibliographical references.General introduction -- Light rail transit vehicles -- Light rail transit track geometry -- Track structure design -- Track components and materials -- Special trackwork -- Structures and bridges -- Corrosion control -- Noise and vibration control -- Transit signal work -- Transit traction power -- LRT track in mixed traffic -- LRT track construction -- LRT track and trackway maintenance.TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Technical reports.; Street-railroad tracks.; Street-railroad tracks; Railroad tracks; Street-railroad tracks; Street-railroads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bite in the apple : a memoir / by Brennan, Chrisann.(CARDINAL)404476;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Creatives -- An Absolute Authority -- When the Going Gets Weird -- The Imposter -- Cross Currents -- Eden -- The Grand Experiment -- Walkabout -- All One Farm -- The Practical and the Poetic -- Guardian at the Gate -- Pure Function -- Life on Two Levels -- American Ingenuity -- The World of Men -- An Old Story -- Perfection -- The Reality Distortion Field -- Generating Happiness -- Machine of the Year -- Family Resemblance -- Traction -- The Path of the Hearth -- The Watchtower -- Epilogue."An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child and a complement to Walter Isaacson's biography, providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years. Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach. The Bite in the Apple is the very human tale of Jobs's ascent and the toll it took, told from the author's unique perspective as his first girlfriend, co-parent, friend, and--like many others--object of his cruelty. Brennan writes with depth and breadth, and she doesn't buy into all the hype. She talks with passion about an idealistic young man who was driven to change the world, about a young father who denied his own child, and about a man who mistook power for love. Chrisann Brennan's intimate memoir provides the reader with a human dimension to Jobs' myth. Finally, a book that reveals the real Steve Jobs"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011.; Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011; Brennan, Chrisann.; Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011; Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011; Apple Computer, Inc.; Computer engineers; Businessmen;
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