Gijs Mom: 2 books
The Electric Vehicle
Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car—neither a recent invention...
Sound and Safe
A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Do you enjoy listening to music while driving? Do you find radio traffic information indispensable? Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive? This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, we turned automobiles from intentionally noisy...