The Book of the Automobile: A Practical Volume Devoted to the History, Construction, Use and Care of Motor Cars and to the Subject of Motoring in America - Couverture rigide

Sloss, Robert Thompson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1341225143 ISBN 13 : 9781341225147

Editeur : Palala Press, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The automobile is the latest achievemeD tof that general movement throughout history which has for its object the annihilation of space by maiL To conquer distance has been one of the great problems of life. From his creation man lias struggled to harness the forces of nature; bat down to the last century he has been seriously fettered and his development mercilessly hampered by his limitations. Man wants physical individual transportation. The steamboat and the railroad have partially accomplished this; they carry their hundreds of thoasands of passengers dmly. But while man may go in tliem to the ends of the world, he can not go subject to his own volition alone; he must go with others, as one of a thousand, as one of a herd. The more one thinks of these conditions, the more one is forced to the humiliating realization that in the method and control of individual transportation there has been practically little advance since tiie days of the Greek runner or the Roman chariot We marvel at modem invention, and we pity the condition of our early ancestors; yet we still plod along at the same old rate of eight miles an hour, a speed equaled from the begimiing of history by mnners, horses, dromedaries, and elephants.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1341225143
• ISBN 13: 9781341225147
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 444
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