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Volkswagen: History to Hobby.(Brief article)(Book review)
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January 1, 2007
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Volkswagen: History To Hobby
Bob Cropsey
Jersey Classic Publishing
75 Locust Avenue, Wallington, NJ 07057
0976526107, $24.99 www.JerseyClassic.com
"Volkswagen: History To Hobby" by Volkswagen enthusiast and expert Bob Cropsey is a celebration of the history of the little German car that was to signal the invasion of small, fuel efficient, economical automobiles who were to profoundly influence the automotive choices of a major section of the American public from the day they were first introduced down to the present. Nicely ...
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I HAVE AN IDEA... IDEA...Man of many talents: Lord Kelvin, who died 100 years ago today, was a celebrity of his age.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...the modern world, William Thomson towered over his peers like acolossus. Thomson, later 1st Baron Kelvin, who died 100 years...communication but Thomson madeit work. By 1897...Glasgow was immense.' William Thomson was born in...
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Abbey ever after; Genius: The bridge over the Menai Straits (above) was designed and built by Thomas Telford (left) who was buried in Westminster Abbey as was Robert Stephenson (right).
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...t the only other engineer buried in the Abbey. William Horneck (c1685-1746) was a military engineer...south transeptwith his father Dr Anthony Horneck. William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), physicist,mathematician...
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Now and then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Wilson, author, 69. Anniversaries Births: 1763 George Morland, artist; 1796, Tsar Nicholas I; 1824 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and mathematician; 1827 Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule; 1854 Sir Robert Borden...
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