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Automobile industry and trade Automobile industry and trade Fiction Automobile industry and trade United States Automobile industry and trade United States Biography Juvenile literature Automobile industry and trade United States History Detroit (Mich.) Fiction Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Juvenile literature Industrialists United States Biography Juvenile literature United StatesSummary: "Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story is the story of those turbulent eighty-two years during which Lockheed achieved fantastic successes and endured occasional failures. Lockheed aircraft set innumerable records and were flown by great pioneering aviators such as Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Howard Hughes. Lockheed engineers achieved fame usually reserved for film stars: Men like the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Quarterly Publications 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 338.7 GENDavis, Lynn
Summary: "The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORZettwoch, Dan
Summary: Presents the history of automobiles and how they work, examining the functions of the internal combustion engine, the development of car culture in the United States, and the effect automobiles have on the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.209 ZETCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.209 ZETLehto, Steve
Summary: "In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.76 LEHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUCKER, PRESTON LEHMarsico, Katie
Summary: "Learn all about the amazing technology behind self-driving cars, from how they navigate to how they keep passengers safe."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 MARNaldrett, Alan.
Summary: "Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth telling. For instance, J.J. Cole forgot to put brakes in his new auto, so on the first test run, he had to drive it in circles until it ran out of gas. Brothers John and Horace Dodge often trashed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 NALSummary: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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Summary: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 GOLYates, Brock
Summary: "Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Modena to his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son; from his fanatic passion for speed to his brilliant marketing of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 KULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KulGreenleaf, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 GreenleafJohnson, D. E. (Dan E.)
Summary: "Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancee, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company--Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancee and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. Will agrees, and when he arrives there, he finds Cooper dead, crushed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHHenderson, Craig
Summary: "From a brilliant new voice in crime fiction comes Welcome to the Game, a gripping thriller that races through Motor City at heart-stopping pace as a getaway driver and a local mobster swerve to avoid danger at every turn. Craig Henderson screeches onto the scene with this fast-paced debut starring ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham. Having moved his family from England to Detroit and opened a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENCollier, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 COLGenat, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 381.4562 GENHalberstam, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HALHernandez, Lolita
Summary: "These twelve stories bring to life the people who populated Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory until its last smokestack was airlifted out in 1994. Each story is a tribute to the grit, passion, and bravado that transformed Detroit into the Motor City and the Cadillac into America's premier luxury car."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSummary: Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC FLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flash 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLABaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 BAICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 BAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.531 BAIBeasley, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1957
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BEACall number: MI 977.434 BEA
Summary: Watch car design students putting their work to the test, and study revolutionary new forms of vehicles-and roads-that are coming into real-world use. Key developments featured in this program include: a silent, battery-powered urban vehicle from Global Electric Motorcars; paving technology made from recycled tires that helps create new highways over old railway lines; the ethanol-powered Dodge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Listen in on a driver's conversation with his car, watch General Motors resurrect a classic, and see what happens when the world's most celebrated racing circus comes to town. Achievements featured in this program include: the OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation system which allows a back-and-forth dialog between commuter and computer; another GPS system, this one from BMW, which swivels a car's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Most drivers are likely to be in more than one crash in their lifetime. No one expects to be in a car accident. But every year on our highways, thousands of people are killed and millions more injured. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the car you're in will have a lot to do with your survival. We see crash test footage and witness the results. We learn what experts look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006