Ingenious : a true story of invention, automotive daring, and the race to revive America / Jason Fagone.
"An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people's lives are changed forever by a quest that combines elements of the Olympics, NASCAR, Junkyard Wars, the Longitude Prize of 1714, and the Apollo program In 2006, science-fiction enthusiast Peter Diamandis announced he would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that traveled 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. Anyone. The challenge attracted more than 300 teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. This book follows four teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond. One team hacked together an electric-powered dreamboat in an old pole barn in central Illinois. A team based in Virginia built a car so light that you could push it across the floor with your thumb. A third team was a Southern California start-up with a car that looked like an alien egg. A fourth was an inner-city high school. Fagone takes the reader into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing their passions, and traces the development of the cars in prose that renders automotive engineering romantic and vivid even to nongeeks. Written with propulsive energy and emotion, this is the bighearted story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something Detroit had said was impossible. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEONE HAS TO DO SOMETHING, AND THAT SOMEONE IS US.""-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307591487
- ISBN: 0307591484
- ISBN: 9780307591494
- ISBN: 0307591492
- Physical Description: 375 pages 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2013.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1 Shakedown -- 1 Kevin and Jen 7 -- 2 Space Kids 23 -- 3 Abyss of Lightness 44 -- 4 Ride or Die 60 -- 5 Immigrants 77 -- 6 Engineers 83 -- 7 Yoda and Little Old Man 105 -- 8 Wingless 113 -- 9 Hypocrisy the Masturbating Hand Endures 123 -- 10 Edison2 Welcomes Informed Comment 139 -- 11 Moose Test 151 -- Part 2 Knockout -- 12 Nobel Prize in Engineering 169 -- 13 Yesterday Today and Forever 187 -- 14 Fit and Finish 205 -- 15 Little Red Corvette 223 -- 16 This Whole New Scale 231 -- 17 Lungs Cannot Oxidize 239 -- 18 Voodoo Steve 250 -- 19 Heat 261 -- 20 Goonies Never Say Die 273 -- Part 3 Ragged Edge -- 21 Greatest Place on Earth 287 -- 22 Race 302 -- 23 Capitol Hill 314 -- 24 Traction 326 -- 25 Old Frontage Road 342.
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- Automobiles > Energy consumption > Research > United States.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 629.222 FAG (Text) | 37810435109524 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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