A brief history of motion : from the wheel, to the car, to what comes next /
Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology-personal transportation-and...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Wheels in the ancient world
- Your carriage awaits
- Under one's own steam
- The rubber hits the road
- You are what you drive
- Who owns the streets?
- The road to suburbia
- Car culture
- The fall and rise of the electric car
- All hail the ride
- From horseless to driverless
- The road ahead.