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    Electric Motorcycles and Bicycles: A History Including Scooters, Tricycles, Segways and Monocycles

    Kevin Desmond

    Today’s ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in their hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series…

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    Electric Boats and Ships: A History

    Kevin Desmond

    Provides an international history of the electric boat and ship from 1835 to the present. It celebrates the Golden Era of electric launches, 1880-1910. It narrates how electric propulsion continued…

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    Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists

    Kevin Desmond

    As world demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enables us to utilize the planet’s mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary…

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    Gustave Trouve: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902)

    Kevin Desmond

    In the latter half of the 19th century Gustave Pierre Trouve, a modest but brilliant Parisian electrical engineer, conceived and patented some 75 inventions, including the endoscope, the electric car…

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    Electric Trucks: A History of Delivery Vehicles, Semis, Forklifts and Others

    Kevin Desmond

    During the past decade, with the availability of the lithium-ion battery, the electric truck has got back on the road for all payloads and all distances. The fourth in a…

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    Electric Airplanes and Drones: A History

    Kevin Desmond

    Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s. The author describes the diverse designs…

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    Might is Right: 1927 Facsimile Edition

    Ragnar Redbeard,Arthur Desmond

    For nearly two hundred pages phrase after phrase descends like a club, bent upon smashing to flinders the church and state at which it is aimed. -Liberty, October 1933

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