Phoenix Rising: The Rise and Fall of the American RepublicPhoenix Rising, 2008 - 600 páginas In an age when the supply of gasoline to feed this modern American society has become both more expensive and more scarce questions are being pondered. Inquires like, How can a modern society scale back its dependence on gasoline as a motive source?' Are there genuine alternative power sources?' Are they the answer to a growing crisis?' Recent announcements of hybrids like those from Honda, Toyota, and Ford have really brought attention to this issue. Hybrids that use both gasoline engines and electric motors. Really, though, alternative power sources have been around for as long as the automobile has been. The battle between and among the steam car, the electric and the gas car was fought out in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. This book explores the ins and outs of that battle. A struggle from which the gasoline car emerged completely victorious. To such an extent that steam cars and electric cars virtually disappeared from the scene for many decades. We will look over all three alternatives, exploring their advantages and disadvantages. We will also look over the obstacles to the steamers and the electrics. Barriers that still exist to a certain extent. Handicaps that caused their disappearance in the first place. |
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... million. These murders were also legitimatized by the Supreme Court of our day, in 1973, in a case known as Roe v. Wade. That is correct; I am speaking of unborn human beings. In 1973, the unborn were classified as not being human. Our ...
... million inhabitants in 1860, but 30 years later New York had a million and a half, and Chicago and Philadelphia each had over a million. In three decades, Philadelphia and Baltimore doubled in population, Kansas City and Detroit grew ...
... million.4 As early as 1844, Samuel Morse had perfected the telegraph, and soon distant parts of the continent were linked by a network of poles and wires. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln received the first transcontinental telegraph. In 1876 ...
... million people from around the world descended upon California in search of instant wealth. In 1851, Gold was discovered in Greenhorn Creek, Kern County. This discovery led to the rush to the upper Kern River region. By 1852 ...
... million dollars (about two cents per acre). This was known as Seward's folly because it was greatly unpopular at the time.9 Hawaii was annexed in 1898 after a coup financed and directed by American interests overthrew the isolationist ...