From Here to There: The Story of How We Transport Ourselves and Everything Else (Smithsonian: Invention & Impact)
By HP Newquist.
Description
This lively history of transportation follows our fascinating route from primitive technology like sandals to driverless cars and beyond! Since humans first stood upright, we've been on the move. Need food? Water? Land? A place to live? Survival depends upon motion. For thousands of years, people have devised ways to move faster, farther, and more comfortably. Their inventions—shoes, skis, the rudder, the wheel, engines, rockets—have had an enormous impact on how and where human beings live and thrive. When human beings get a move on, change happens:- The wheel, prob...
ISBN(s)
045147645X, 9780451476456