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The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board
In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type to fly in Earth orbit and successfully completed 27 missions over more than two de…
How It Flies or, Conquest of the Air
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Richard Ferris
In these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the author has told the story of the Ships of the Air. He has explained t…
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad
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William Francis Bailey
Story of the planning, construction, and early operating of the Trans-continental railroad. There is coverage of the early proposals that be…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland …
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Oscar D. Skelton
When the pace of railroad construction slackened in 1914, Canada had achieved a remarkable position in the railway world. Only five other co…
The Curtiss Aviation Book
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Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American Trophy for the first pre-announced and officially witnessed ai…
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
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Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are …
The Aeroplane in War
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Claude Grahame-White
"Although it is still a crude machine—in view of the perfected apparatuswhich is the aim of thoughtful designers—the aeroplane has demo…
The Romance of the Ship
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Edward Keble Chatterton
To attempt to describe within limits of one book the whole evolution of the ship from the days of her crude beginnings and limited utility t…
The Road
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Hilaire Belloc
"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…
A Deep Water Voyage
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Paul Eve Stevenson
Narrative of a fascinating long distance journey by sail that charts a deep water voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta. Stevenson…
When Railroads Were New
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Charles Frederick Carter
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
The Romance of Modern Locomotion
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Archibald Williams
In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the …
Railroads from the Investor's View Point
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Federal Securities Corporation
This small booklet was written in 1921 as a guide for Americans interested in investing in railroad securities. The majority of the book is …
The Western Boundary, and Other Essays
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…