Automotive Milestones: The Technological Development of the Automobile: Who, What, When, Where, and How It All Works – PDF

This is a basic-curiosity commerce ebook that explains the improvement of automotive engineering and know-how from the begin of the enterprise earlier than 1900 to the present day. Automotive Milestones, (PDF) describes how varied parts and techniques in the car work in layman’s phrases, with out resorting to arithmetic, and emphasizes the key milestones in the historic improvement of automotive know-how. All illustrations and pictures are in full shade. The aimed viewers is older teenagers to adults of any age who’re eager about the matter and could also be concerned in it as a pastime. Occasionally known as “gearheads” or “motorheads”, they kind an enormous market. Over the years, a number of of the writer’s engineering college students have been on this class, and he typically would see on-campus automobile golf equipment to clarify the means issues automotive labored, being cautious to eradicate or damp down any sophisticated arithmetic, as he does on this ebook. An Internet search discovered only names which might be both “laborious-engineering oriented” — like publications from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) — or mere compilations of dates. eBooks in the latter class word the indicators however with out hardly any clarification in any respect of how these developments really perform in a technical sense – which is the aim of this ebook.

Review

“Automotive Milestones, by Robert L. Norton, is about all the instruments which might be wanted in an car and how they work. The ebook consists of eight key chapters, every protecting a significant mechanical system of the car together with a abstract chapter and appendices. There are quite a few illustrations and images used all through the ebook to assist the ideas mentioned. The writer has comprehensively researched the topic and leaves the reader with a brand new appreciation of what has been tried over roughly 250 years of the car historical past. The ebook is logically organized and plainly defined in a means that only an individual with in-depth data might do. His newest ebook is Automotive Milestones which presents the cornerstones of a radical understanding of car know-how. If you’re simply searching for a standard understanding of the car, searching for inspiration in assist of a brand new thought, or simply desire a temporary historical past of automotive milestones, this ebook is a should-learn.” — Parker Ackley, Antique Automobile Enthusiast NOTE: The product only consists of the ebook, Automotive Milestones in unique AZW3 format. A converted PDF can also be included. No access codes are included.