Author: John MoffittPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954022266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Ivel Tractor was invented in 1903, a full decade ahead of Henry Ford's first tractor and almost three decades ahead of the first Ferguson.
Ivel Story
Author: John MoffittPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954022266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Ivel Tractor was invented in 1903, a full decade ahead of Henry Ford's first tractor and almost three decades ahead of the first Ferguson.
The Farmers' Club Journal
Author: Bicycle Design
Author: Tony HadlandPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026252970X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
An authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution. The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers. Written by two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with the counterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spoked wheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires. The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing, portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components including seats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers, saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs but also commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunk some myths about bicycles—for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched a chain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, its technological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage, fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.
Watchin' the Bluegrass Grow
Author: Robert ElkinsPublisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570723056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Cane Bottom, this book's fictional Appalachian town, boasts an assortment of made-up crusty characters who get into a story-telling contest at the depot one night—with the twist that their tales and anecdotes are pieces of real American folklore. The narrator's authentic first-person colloquialisms and comments on the progress of the evening's entertainment provide a portrait of mountain social life around 1950, still moving at a snail's pace even as the rest of America gets on the move. The second part of the book is a collection of prose poems that describe the goings-on in Cane Bottom when its residents suddenly have to cope with a religious conversion, a baptism, a wake, a funeral, and some difficulties surrounding snake handling.
Printers' Ink
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Industrial Marketing
Author: The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Miller's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
The Last Ditch
Author: David LampePublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473877644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An analysis of World War II German and British plans that were in place if the Nazi forces had successfully managed to invade mainland Britain in 1940. In 1940 Britain faced its biggest threat since the Spanish Armada. Hitler’s invasion plans were in full swing, and Britain had to quickly assemble a secret resistance force. This compelling study reveals the intentions of both sides, from Hitler’s strategies for Operation Sea Lion and subsequent occupation, to Britain’s secret plans for resistance. German decrees show that the occupation would have been severe, with mass deportation for all able-bodied men as well as widespread arrests, as revealed in the notorious Gestapo Arrest List. In telling this story Lampe relates one of World War II’s best kept secrets and offers insight into what would have been a brutal future. Originally published in 1968, The Last Ditch remains the authoritative work on this subject and features interviews with key players who lived through the action. “An extremely good read. I was enthralled by the book as an undergraduate and twenty-five years later I reread it with much pleasure.” —Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Birmingham, from the foreword
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