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Man and Machine
Stephan Wilkinson
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Description for Man and Machine
Paperback. Gentlemen, start your engines--Stephan Wilkinson, who restored a 1980s Porsche 911 in The Gold-Plated Porsche, is back with more piston-pumping tales. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 21.
"They sit on a spur of test track outside General Electric's locomotive factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, panting and grumbling like two old lions half asleep. The ominous, muttering rumble is the idle of 8,800 horsepower--24 cylinders with pistons big as buckets, turbochargers the size of washing machines, two V12 engines driving alternators five feet in diameter. For here are two units of the most advanced diesel-electric locomotives in the world: a pair of GE Evolutions."--Excerpt from "Do the Locomotion" in Man and Machine Stephan Wilkinson--a longtime expert on the ways men entertain themselves when no one is telling ... Read more
"They sit on a spur of test track outside General Electric's locomotive factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, panting and grumbling like two old lions half asleep. The ominous, muttering rumble is the idle of 8,800 horsepower--24 cylinders with pistons big as buckets, turbochargers the size of washing machines, two V12 engines driving alternators five feet in diameter. For here are two units of the most advanced diesel-electric locomotives in the world: a pair of GE Evolutions."--Excerpt from "Do the Locomotion" in Man and Machine Stephan Wilkinson--a longtime expert on the ways men entertain themselves when no one is telling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781592288120
SKU
V9781592288120
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Stephan Wilkinson
Stephan Wilkinson is the consulting auto editor of Popular Science. He was the editor of Car and Driver, and he is the author of The Gold-Plated Porsche. He lives in upstate New York.
Reviews for Man and Machine
"Wilkinson is that rare guy who actually understands what makes machines tick and why machines make our hearts beat faster
and he can write beautifully about the connection."
Scott Mowbray, editor in chief of Popular Science “…breezy could well describe a journey through this delightful collection of 28 essays and observations.”-Forbes"Wilkinson has an uncanny knack for describing cold machinery in warm, simple, ... Read more
and he can write beautifully about the connection."
Scott Mowbray, editor in chief of Popular Science “…breezy could well describe a journey through this delightful collection of 28 essays and observations.”-Forbes"Wilkinson has an uncanny knack for describing cold machinery in warm, simple, ... Read more