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Air Transport Industry

Heppenheimer, T. A. Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation. Wiley, 1995, 1998. A history of the technology as well as the industry.

Lovegrove, Keith. Airline: Identity, Design and Culture. te Neues, 2000. A well-illustrated social history for the armchair traveler.

Morrison, Steven A., and Clifford Winston. The Evolution of the Airline Industry. Brookings Institution, 1995. General overview and assessment of changes in the industry.

Petzinger, Thomas, Jr. Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos. Random House, 1995, 1997. Colorful account of the leaders in the airline industry and the effects of deregulation.

Automobiles

Adler, Dennis. The Art of the Automobile: The 100 Greatest Cars. Harper, 2000. Copiously illustrated history of classic cars.

Brazendale, Kevin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Classic Cars. Rev. ed. Thunder Bay, 1999. Detailed reference work with more than 1,200 photographs.

Coffey, Frank. America on Wheels: The First 100 Years, 1896-1996. General Publishing, 1996. Companion book to a public television special.

Dale, Rodney. Early Cars. Oxford University Press, 1994. For middle school readers.

Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. MIT Press, 1988, 1990. A social history of cars in America.

Lewis, Lucinda. Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream. Abrams, 2000. Some 200 photographs of carefully posed vintage cars.

Mantle, Jonathan. Car Wars. Arcade, 1996. History of the international automotive industry.

McShane, Clay. The Automobile: A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact. Greenwood, 1997. Covers engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car.

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Aviation

Baker, David. Flight and Flying: A Chronology. Facts on File, 1994. More than 7,000 entries cover the history of aviation until 1992.

Bilstein, Roger E. Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. How the airplane transformed life in the United States.

Chaiken, Andrew. Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight. New York Graphic Society, 2000. Well-illustrated survey of the museum's artifacts from the history of flight.

Chant, Christopher. A Century of Triumph: The History of Aviation. Free Press, 2002. Copiously illustrated survey of the historical development of aircraft.

Haynsworth, Leslie, and David M. Toomey. Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age. HarperPerennial, 2000. Substantial and engrossing history.

Heppenheimer, T. A. A Brief History of Flight: From Balloons to Mach 3 and Beyond. Wiley, 2000. Substantial, wide-ranging account of the history of flight, told in an engaging, sometimes offhand manner.

Heppenheimer, T. A. Turbulent Skies: A History of Commercial Aviation. Wiley, 1995, 1998. A science writer's history of aviation from its beginnings to the 777.

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus. The Spirit of St. Louis. Scribner, Adventure Library, 1953. 1985, 1998. Personal account includes solo transatlantic flight in 1927.

Rabinowitz, Harold. Classic Airplanes: Pioneering Aircraft and the Visionaries Who Built Them. Metro, 1999. Photographs and text on 22 early airplanes.

Rendall, David. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide. Harper Collins, 1999. Detailed information about commercial and military aircraft currently in use.

For younger readers

Berliner, Don. Aviation: Reaching for the Sky. Oliver, 1997. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Hawkes, Nigel. Transportation on Land and Sea. Twenty-First Century, 1995. For middle school readers and up.

Italia, Bob. Great Auto Makers and Their Cars. Oliver, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Karwatka, Dennis. Moving Civilization: The Growth of Transportation. Tech Directions, 2003. For readers in grade 8 and up.

Richie, David, and Fred Israel. Transportation. Chelsea House, 1994. Explores transportation in America from the 1830s to Henry Ford.

Streissguth, Thomas. The Transcontinental Railroad. Lucent, 1999. For readers in grades 6 to 8.

Woods, Michael, and Mary B. Woods. Ancient Transportation: From Camels to Canals. Lerner, 2000. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Railroads

Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. Simon & Schuster, 2000. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and other accounts, Ambrose re-creates the period of the railroad's construction.

Bain, David Haward. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. Viking Penguin, 1999. An exhaustive but exciting account by a historian at Middlebury College.

Barron's Educational Series. Railways. Barron's, 1998. History of railways, for younger readers.

Coiley, John. Train. Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Pictorial history of trains for younger readers.

Riley, C. J. The Encyclopedia of Trains and Locomotives. Metro, 2000. Reference work for anyone curious about the world's trains.

Riley, C. J. The Golden Age of the Passenger Train: From Steam to Diesel and Beyond. Metro, 1997. Chronicles the development and, in some places, the decline of passenger train travel throughout the world.

Stilgoe, John R. Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. Yale, 1983, 1985. Study of how the railroads transformed America, 1880-1930.

Stover, John F. American Railroads. 2nd ed. University of Chicago, 1998. Account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States.

Stover, John F. The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railraods. Routledge, 1999. Illustrated history of the railroad industry.

Shipping Industry

Gardiner, Robert, and Ambrose Greenway, eds. The Golden Age of Shipping: The Classic Merchant Ship, 1900-1960. Chartwell, 2000. Provides in-depth histories of the major types of shipping vessels.

Hutchinson, Gillian. Medieval Ships & Shipping. Books International, 1997. Introduction to the history of ships.

Kendall, Lane C., and James J. Buckley. The Business of Shipping. Cornell Maritime, 2000. Describes the business side of commercial shipping.

Sheard, Bradley. Lost Voyages. Aqua Quest, 1998. Maritime history of the ships that came into the New York Harbor.

Williams, David M., ed. The World of Shipping. Ashgate, 1998. History of shipping from the late-18th to the mid-20th century.

Transportation

Del Vecchio, Mike. Railroads Across America: A Celebration of 150 Years of Railroading. Motor Book, 1998. Railroading in the United States.

Gunston, Bill. The Story of Aviation: A Concise History of Flight. Barnes & Noble, 1997. Explores use of the airplane for emergency rescue, military defense, freight transport, and pleasure travel.

Heppenheimer, T. A. Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation. Wiley, 1998. History of the role of air transport.

Lay, Maxwell G. Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles That Used Them. Rutgers University Press, 1994. Comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, and bridges, and of the people and vehicles that have traversed them.

Paine, Lincoln. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. More than 1,000 of the world's greatest ships presented in their historical contexts.

Wood, Donald F., and James C. Johnson. Contemporary Transportation. 5th ed. Prentice-Hall, 1995. Introductory textbook that covers all modes of transportation.

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