Combines history, biography, technology, and humor to survey hybrid vehicles, and the dream of cars that can fly, that has kept inventors at work over the last 100 years despite many failures. Features black-and-white photographs of cars and their inventors.
Content Note
First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's Condor -- Trajan Vuia's aéroplane-automobile -- Glenn Curtiss's autoplane -- Felix Longobardi's combination vehicle -- Henry Ford's flying flivver -- Waldo Waterman's arrowbile -- Harold Pitcairn's autogyro -- Joseph Gwinn's aircar -- Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion omnidirectional human transport -- William Bushnell Stout's skycar -- Theodore P. Hall's convaircar -- Robert Fulton's airphibian -- Daniel Zuck's plane-mobile -- Moulton B. Taylor's aerocar -- Into the future.