Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car Irene Revell Through the wide-flung systems of

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Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car Irene Revell Through the wide-flung systems ofIn this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski hailed as one of the best writers on design working today by Publishers Weekly tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. Delving into more than 170 years of ingenuity in design, technology, and engineering, he takes us from Carl Benz's three wheel motorcar in 1855 to the present day shift to electric cars. Along