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The great American jet pack : the quest for the ultimate individual lift device /
Inventors once promised us we'd all be flying with jet packs now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting us to work without traffic jams and trains. What happened to the jet pack? In The Great American Jet Pack, Steve Lehto gives us the definitive history of this and rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Inventors once promised us we'd all be flying with jet packs now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting us to work without traffic jams and trains. What happened to the jet pack? In The Great American Jet Pack, Steve Lehto gives us the definitive history of this and related devices, explaining how the technology arose, how it works, and why we don't have them in our garages today. These individual lift devices, as they were blandly labeled by the government men who financed much of their development, answered man's desire to simply step outside and take flight. No r. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781613744314 1613744315 9781613744338 1613744331 |