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Model T
Somehow Henry Ford knew what Americans were hankering for: “Everybody wants to be someplace he ain’t. As soon as he gets there, he wants to go right back.” And so, he pioneered the Model T–the first affordable car for the masses. David Weitzman has meticulously documented the development of the assembly line and the many innovations and adaptations Ford put to use in making his famous Tin Lizzy. When the Ford plant first opened, the crew could make 18,000 cars a year at a cost of $950 each. In just ten years, they had refined the process enough so that they could build one million cars in a year and the price had come down to about $350. Filled with detailed black-and-white drawings, helpful text and captions, and fascinating quotes from Ford employees, this elegant book gives young readers a look at a mechanical genius in action.
Skywalkers
Skyscrapers define the American city. Through a narrative text and gorgeous historical photographs, Skywalkers by David Weitzman explores Native American history and the evolution of structural engineering and architecture, illuminating the Mohawk ironworkers who risked their lives to build our cities and their lasting impact on our urban landscape.
Jenny
Barely 40 years separate the Wright brothers' flight and those of the first jet aircraft. The World War II pilots who were the first to fly those jets and who would later become the first airline pilots, learned to fly in little cloth and wooden biplanes, the aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s. One such airplane was the Curtiss JN4 "Jenny," known as the "Model T of airplanes" because it was the first aircraft to be mass-produced. The Jenny was built in large numbers during the World War I; after the war, surplus Jennys flooded the market, becoming the airplane of choice for barnstormers and early airmail pilots-and the one in which famous aviation pioneers, from Charles Lindbergh to Amelia Earh...
The John Bull
Here is the story of one of the most influential early locomotives in America, the John Bull. Imported from England in 1831, this amazing workhorse was used to help build and then run the first successful New Jersey railroad, the Camden & Amboy Railroad, which reduced from days to hours the journey for freight and passengers between New York and Philadelphia. The design on the John Bull proved inspirational: more than a dozen similar locomotives were quickly manufactured on these shores, which in turn helped spawn a vital new American industry. With a zealous eye for intriguing detail, David Weitzman gives us a window seat on the significant moments in the history of the John Bull: its commission and manufacture in the shops of George Stephenson in England, its arrival in the United States by steamship (reminiscent of Pharaoh's Boat, it lacked assembly drawings and instructions), its years of successful service, and its retirement and subsequent move to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution-where it sat proudly and quietly until an exciting plan was hatched by its curators to honor its 150th anniversary in 1981...
A Subway for New York
Offers readers the factual account of how the first section of the New York City's subway system was able to transport its many passengers from areas in lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side in just a matter of minutes--and for only a nickel!
Windmills, Bridges & Old Machines
A guide to the study of America's industrial past through examination of early engines, furnaces, locomotives, windmills, foundries, canals, bridges, and other industrial antiquities.
Pouring Iron
While visiting his grandparents in Sutter Creek, California, Howard goes to the historic Knight Foundry and experiences firsthand the process of creating all sorts of cast iron products.
Pharaoh's Boat
With poetic language and striking illustrations, Weitzman tells the story of how one of the greatest boats of ancient Egypt came to be built-and built again. In the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the most skilled shipwrights in all of Egypt are building an enormous vessel that will transport Cheops, the mighty pharaoh, across the winding waterway and into a new world. Pharaoh's boat will be a wonder to behold, and well prepared for the voyage ahead. But no one, not even the Egyptian king himself, could have imagined just where the journey of Pharaoh's boat would ultimately lead.
