Transportation Breakdowns: Learning from Bad Ideas

by Amie Jane Leavitt

Overview

See some of the world's fastest transportation breakdowns at lightning speed. Find out how each form of transportation failed, the basic engineering missed during construction, and what engineers learned from their mistakes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543592122
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2020
Series:	Fantastic Fails
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	840L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Amie Jane Leavitt is an accomplished author and photographer who loves to travel the globe in search of interesting story ideas and beautiful places to capture in photos. Amie has written nearly 50 books for children. She graduated from Brigham Young University as an education major and has since taught all subjects and grade levels in both private and public schools. She also has contributed to online and print media, and has worked as a consultant, writer, and editor for numerous educational publishing and assessment companies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Push and Pull: Beach's Pneumatic Transit System 4

Chapter 2 Whoosh!: The Moving Sidewalk 8

Chapter 3 Liftoff!: Samuel Langley's Aerodrome 12

Chapter 4 The Unsinkable Sinker: The Titanic 16

Chapter 3 Big Balloons: The Zeppelin 20

Chapter 6 Floating on Air: The Aérotrain 24

Chapter 7 Jet-Setter: The Concorde 28

Chapter 8 Lemon in the Sky: The Flying Pinto 32

Chapter 9 Beep Beep: Dickmanns's Self-Driving Car 36

Chapter 10 Watch Your Head!: Transit Elevated Bus 40

Driving, Flying, and Launching Through History 44

Glossary 46

Reap More 47

Internet Sites 47

Index 48

Interviews

Useful for at-level third or fourth graders, or for hi-low readers in middle school reading at a third or fourth grade level; High interest topic ties to social studies curriculum; Inspires growth mindset