Transportation - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board
- Author: Columbia Accident Investigation Board
- Genre: Modern (20th C) / Transportation
In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type to fly in Earth orbit and successfully completed 27 missions over more than two decades. During the STS-107 mission, Columbia and its crew traveled more than six million miles in 16 days. The...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: History / Transportation
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks...
How It Flies or, Conquest of the Air - Richard FERRIS
How It Flies or, Conquest of the Air - Richard FERRIS
- Author: Richard FERRIS
- Genre: Transportation
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 the laws of their flight; sketched their development to the present day; shown how to build the flying machine...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways - Oscar D. SKELTON
Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways - Oscar D. SKELTON
- Author: Oscar D. SKELTON
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Transportation
When the pace of railroad construction slackened in 1914, Canada had achieved a remarkable position in the railway world. Only five other countries—the United States, Russia, Germany, India, and, by a small margin, France—possessed a greater...
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography / Transportation
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the seafaring life is depicted in its...
The Aeroplane in War - Claude Grahame-White
The Aeroplane in War - Claude Grahame-White
- Author: Claude Grahame-White
- Genre: War & Military / Transportation
"Although it is still a crude machine—in view of the perfected apparatus which is the aim of thoughtful designers—the aeroplane has demonstrated, in a conclusive way, its value as an instrument of war." - Summary by Authors...
The Curtiss Aviation Book - Glenn Curtiss
The Curtiss Aviation Book - Glenn Curtiss
- Author: Glenn Curtiss
- Genre: Transportation
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American Trophy for the first pre-announced and officially witnessed airplane flight in North America when he flew his plane, the June Bug, 5,080 ft on July 4, 1908. In 1910, he...
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - William Francis Bailey
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - William Francis Bailey
- Author: William Francis Bailey
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Transportation
Story of the planning, construction, and early operating of the Trans-continental railroad. There is coverage of the early proposals that began as early as the late 1700's to follow the best route to the Pacific Ocean. 1819 saw proposals for steam...
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer - Henry Dawson
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer - Henry Dawson
- Author: Henry Dawson
- Genre: Memoirs / Transportation
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 not just rough men, but are also brave and heroic men through descriptions of divers dangers encountered on...