Category Archives: Transportation
When Railroads Were New
Author(s): Charles Frederick Carter This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles...
The Curtiss Aviation Book
Author(s): Glenn CurtissAugustus Post Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American...
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
Author(s): Henry Dawson Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days...
The Story of the Pony Express
Author(s): Glenn D. Bradley The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account...
The Romance of Modern Locomotion
Author(s): Archibald Williams In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical...
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Author(s): Logan Marshall This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine...
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments
Author(s): Walter Ferdinando Grew From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A...
The Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 – The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways
Author(s): Oscar D. Skelton When the pace of railroad construction slackened in 1914, Canada had...
The Romance of the Ship
Author(s): Edward Keble Chatterton To attempt to describe within limits of one book the whole...
Railroads from the Investor’s View Point
Author(s): Federal Securities Corporation This small booklet was written in 1921 as a guide for...
George and Robert Stephenson
Author(s): Samuel Smiles George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to...
Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1
Author(s): Columbia Accident Investigation Board In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type...
How It Flies or, Conquest of the Air
Author(s): Richard Ferris In these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 – All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Author(s): William Wood No exhaustive Canadian ‘water history’ can possibly be attempted here. That would...
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft
Author(s): Lindsay Anderson Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium...
Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A – Vol. 1
Author(s): Federal Aviation Administration This audiobook contains chapters 1 through 10 from the Airplane Flying...
Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A – Vol. 2
Author(s): Federal Aviation Administration This audiobook is volume 2 from the Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A....
Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A – Vol. 3
Author(s): Federal Aviation Administration This audiobook is third and final volume of the Airplane Flying...