Author: Automobile Board of Trade. Mechanical Branch
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: Howard B. Bluestein
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ISBN: 9780195307115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Tornadoes are the most violent, magnificent, and utterly unpredictable storms on earth, reaching estimated wind speeds of 300 mph and leaving swaths of destruction in their wake. In Tornado Alley, Howard Bluestein draws on two decades of experience chasing and photographing tornadoes across the Plains to present a fascinating historical account of the study of tornadoes and the great thunderstorms that spawn them. A century ago, tornado warnings were so unreliable that they usually went unreported. Today, despite cutting-edge Doppler radar technology and computer simulation, these storms remain remarkably difficult to study. Leading scientists still conduct much of their research from the inside of a speeding truck, and often contend with jammed cameras, flash floods, and windshields smashed by hailstones and flying debris. Using over a hundred diagrams, models, and his own spectacular color photographs, Bluestein documents the exhilaration of hair-raising encounters with as many as nine tornadoes in one day, as well as the crushing disappointment of failed expeditions and ruined equipment. Most of all, he recreates the sense of beauty, mystery, and power felt by the scientists who risk their lives to study violent storms. For scientists, amateur weather enthusiasts, or anyone who's ever been intrigued or terrified by a darkening sky, Tornado Alley provides not only a history of tornado research but a vivid look into the origin and effects of nature's most dramatic phenomena.

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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Elizabeth Denver Gutchess
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663203768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Dryden’s Second Hundred Years (Part II) does two exceptional things. First, its tight focus on local participation in World War II paradoxically chronicles the entire war, a conflict which drew its combatants from small rural townships like Dryden NY, assigned and scattered them throughout the world, and then delivered the survivors back home again, creating in every small American community a microcosm of the entire conflict, an eye-witnessing of the whole story. Second, that story is told here largely in local participants’ own words, in letters from camps, troopships, carriers, cruisers, foxholes, and hospitals, their voices a quiet backdrop to the horrific war they had been asked to fight. The resulting narrative suggests that those who don’t know history – while not always doomed to repeat it – are very likely doomed to live their lives without perspective, to mistake inconvenience for hardship, and hardship for catastrophe, and to be blind to the miracle of everyday normal life.

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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Larry Webster
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795347251
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Fully illustrated with color photography, this eBook collects Road & Track’s coverage of the acclaimed BMW M Series from 1985 to 2014. Since it debuted the BMW E2 in 1972, the legendary German car brand has taken a balanced approach to its M series cars, turning already competitive models into well-rounded, capable performance machines. Year after year, BMW’s Motorsport division has set the standard for power, style, and overall excellence. This eBook collects Road & Track’s BMW M car coverage, including features, reviews, comparison tests, and interviews on everything from the M3 and M5 to the short-lived M1 supercar, and even the recent M-badged SUVs. Taken together, the nearly thirty years of expert automotive writing presents a critical history of BMW’s design and engineering achievements.

Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Author: United States. Armed Forces Supply Support Center. Standardization Division
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Category : Specifications
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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