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America has a love affair with transportation--blazingtrails to a new frontier, hugging the curves of the road in a classicsports car, enjoying the romanticism of railroad travel or theadventure of the ocean.This collection offers historical accounts ofthe vehicles and information on museums across the country.145 b&wphotos. ... Read more

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Traces the history of transportation in the United States through a description of Mystic Seaport, the Strasburg Rail Road, Harrah's Automobile Collection, and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on May 5, 2003. The length of the article is 759 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tupelo museum a big draw for auto enthusiasts. (Focus Auto).(Tupelo Automobile Museum )
Author: Becky Gillette
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 5, 2003
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 25Issue: 18Page: 17(1)

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This book is the first for over 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing on years of experience visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. ... Read more

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This valuable directory contains a wealth of data on the history of aviation and attempts, for the first time, to identify every aircraft manufacturer and designer and every aircraft produced. This indispensable reference book is a comprehensive guide to the sheer number and variety of aircraft produced in the last hundred years.

The directory has thousands of entries with, for each manufacturer or designer, the names of all the classes of aircraft produced (powered fixed wing, unpowered fixed wing, powered rotor rotor-craft and unpowered-rotor rotor-craft). Entries are cross-referenced and brief histories of important companies have been added to enable the researcher to chart mergers, closures, and name changes. Significant nicknames and code names are also detailed. This valuable and unique book presents a vast, official array of data in an accessible form and is an essential reference book for any aviation enthusiast. ... Read more

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Exactly what it claims to be . . .
This directory, according to the introduction, is a byproduct of the effort to reorganize "a century's worth of aviation documents" in the National Air and Space Museum files. The result is an alphabetical listing of some 5,000 manufacturers/designers which have produced roughly 25,000 discrete types or models of piloted aircraft, about which NASM presumably has some information. For example, "Ferguson, Charles J. (California)" is listed has having designed/produced the "Ferguson Glider".Likewise, some 60 iterations of the basic C-130 Hercules design are listed under "Lockheed (Burbank, CA)". However, this book is exactly what the title suggests--a directory. You'll find no further information about the Ferguson glider or any of the many Hercules variants between the prototype YC-130 and the latest AC-130U.

What you will find are very brief histories of those companies (Lockheed among them) which have been transformed over the years through mergers, name changes, and so forth. This can help the serious researcher unravel some of the complex "arrangements" that have been made in the aircraft business over the years, particularly concerning companies that have long since ceased to exist. As would be expected in a work of this type, there are also some bits of what might best be described as aeronautical trivia. On page 253 is listed "Schmuck Aircraft (See: Monarch)".

The last 65 pages consist of another alphabetical listing of aircraft by name. Thus we find that the "ABC Glider" was produced by Schultz and the "Zwergreiher (Heron)" is the name given to the Burgfalke Lo 100.

In summary, this directory will no doubt serve as a useful guide to those fortunate enough to actually access the NASM files, and hopefully it will soon be found on the reference shelves of most libraries. It will also be helpful to someone who's trying to figure out what company built the "Gnu", for example, but bear in mind that to find anything ABOUT the thousands of aircraft listed here, you'll have to keep looking. ... Read more

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The William G. Mather museum guide is a delight for anyone who loves the sea and the ships that work the water. Built during the 1920's in the golden era of Great Lakes steamship transportation, the William G. Mather is a fascinating study of a well preserved ship that typifies this important era in the American Industrial Age. Author Tom Matowitz does a superb job of telling the story of this Steamer, from her construction through her modernization and finally to her conversion to a Museum. Over 75 photos and drawings in both black & white and color take your from her construction to her condition today. ... Read more

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Watching the ore boats...
...out on Lake Erie, I always wanted to be on them, to crawl through the hold and discover the engine room.
I've finally done so, and you can, too.The William G. Mather has been turned into a floating museum; docked at East 9th Street, by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Great Lakes Science Museum, a trip to the Mather rounds out a day of sightseeing.
Metiously researched and lavishly illustrated, this guidebook fills in potential holes in your knowledge.Mr. Matowitz does his usual excellent job in telling the story of the Mather, from building and launching, to its heydey in shipping on the Great Lakes, and on through retirement and its rebirth as a floating museum.
This is a rare opportunity; merchant marine examples tend to be used up, and then broken up and sold for scrap.Come onboard, and see the beautiful wood paneling, the elegant officer's mess, the impressive engines for yourself.Book in hand, you won't miss a thing...Or if you can't get to Cleveland, by all means, get the book.It's the next best thing to touring the Mather first hand. ... Read more

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Chapters: Museo de Arte de Ponce, U.s. Army Transportation Museum, Strategic Air and Space Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Geological Museum of China, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Vietnam Museum of Revolution, San Diego Hall of Champions. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Museo de Arte de Ponce or MAP (Spanish for Ponce Museum of Art) is a world-class art museum located in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is considered to be the finest art museum in Puerto Rico. It houses the finest collection of European art in the Caribbean, as well as work by Puerto Rican artists. The largest art museum in the Caribbean and widely regarded as one of the best in the Americas, it contains one of the most important pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere. The museum holds an impressive collection of almost 4,000 pieces distributed among fourteen galleries. It is the only museum in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Association of Museums. It was founded by politician and philanthropist Luis A. Ferré, and its current building was officially inaugurated on December 28, 1965. The project of the museum officially began in 1956 when Luis A. Ferré traveled to Europe. There he bought originals of some of European art masterpieces, which encouraged him to start a project for a museum in the city of Ponce, his birthplace. With the advice of two experts - Julius S. Held, specialist on Rubens and professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, and René Taylor, art and architecture enthusiast and professor at the University of Granada, Yale, and Columbia - Ferré compiled a collection of works of art based on their value instead of their popularity. He acquired some of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3260301 ... Read more

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Chapters: Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, Verde Canyon Railroad, Arizona Street Railway Museum, Arizona Railway Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is a railroad museum in Tucson, Arizona. The museum does not charge for admission. Guided tours of the facility are available for a small fee, by appointment only. The museum offers community events, downtown historic walking tours (OctoberMarch), railroad safety education, an oral history program and an active collections department preserving artifacts pertaining to transportation in southern Arizona. Volunteers answer steam locomotive questions on Saturdays from 10 a.m. 1 p.m.. The museum also has interactive exhibits of Southern Arizona transportation history. Modern-day Union Pacific Railroad freight trains pass the museum throughout the day. Visitors may ring the locomotive bell on SP #1673. Visitors can also learn how the railroad impacted Tucson since its arrival on March 20, 1880. Southern Pacific locomotive #1673 is on display at the museum. The 2-6-0 M-4b Mogul locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific Railroad by Schenectady Locomotive Works (New York) in November 1900. The locomotive is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The depot lobby is currently used as a waiting room for rail passengers using Amtrak passenger rail and the rest of the depot and buildings are leased to various businesses. The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is located in the former records vault building at the former Southern Pacific Depot, recently renovated by the City of Tucson in 2004. 414 North Toole AvenueTucson, Arizona 85701Telephone: (520) 623-2223 ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2801504 ... Read more

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Chapters: Museums in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Wyoming State Capitol, Wyoming Transportation Museum, Wyoming Governor's Mansion, Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wyoming State Capitol -The construction of the capitol was authorized in Wyoming Territory in 1886 by the Ninth Territorial Legislature Assembly, which specified that the cost should not exceed US$150,000. Governor Francis E. Warren appointed a five-member commission to select and purchase a site in Cheyenne, as well as to select an architect and solicit for construction. The commission selected the architectural firm of David W. Gibbs ... Read more