Man and Machine The Best of Stephan Wilkinson

Name: Man and Machine The Best of Stephan Wilkinson
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ISBN: 9781592288120

ISBN-10: 159228812X

ISBN-13: 9781592288120

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephan Wilkinson

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"They sit on a spur of test track outside General Electric's locomotive factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, panting and grumbling like two old lions half asleep. The ominous, muttering rumble is the idle of 8,800 horsepower--24 cylinders with pistons big as buckets, turbochargers the size of washing machines, two V12 engines driving alternators five feet in diameter. For here are two units of the most advanced diesel-electric locomotives in the world: a pair of GE Evolutions."--Excerpt from "Do the Locomotion" in "Man and Machine Stephan Wilkinson--a longtime expert on the ways men entertain themselves when no one is telling them what to do--takes readers into the high-speed, high-risk world of…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English



Editors


Introduction


The World's Loudest Airplane


Do the Locomotion


Hot Date with a Handgun


Vern Raburn's Connie


Go, Karts!


Formula None


Flying Fortress


dB Drag Racing


The Shipping News


Eject!


Ambulance Driver


Fling-Wings


The Concept-Car Concept


Hawk


Tanks, Hot Rods, and Salt


Vee is for V12


Wally 118


They Named It the Seahorse, But They Called It the Dog


Picnic Boat


Symmetry


Kayaks


How Pilots Think


Quarter-Pint


Albatros


DB-601


The Yo-Yos


The Grandest Piano


The Joy of Flying