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The history of the world is largely the history of movement. We speak of ancient cultures as though they were immobile, often forgetting that the greatest empires were often comprised primarily of displaced peoples. Genghis Khan uprooted entire populations and put them elsewhere in order to encourage homogeneity within his realm. How did he get them from place to place?

In the age of Learjets and bullet trains, the invention of the wheel seems distant and almost inconsequential. Riding horses is a little more immediate (oddly) because people still do that, but unless you're Amish or Mennonite Brethren living in the eastern United States, carts, wagons and buggies are mere images flickering against the faded screen of the past.

Still, the wheel is one of the building blocks of civilization. Things like wagons, trains, and cars would never have been developed without the wheel, and by extension we probably wouldn't have airplanes either. Boats and ships are a slightly different story, but the technology that allowed early civilizations to put to sea is as foundational as that used to make wheels.

Man has always been fascinated with movement of all kinds, not least the modes of conveyance used to get people and things around. It's important for Christians to remember that God's will is ultimately what allows advances in transportation technology, which (rather than ending the discussion) is the best reason to study it in the first place. To that end, we offer a variety of resources covering a variety of vehicles and inventions.

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	All About Aviation All About Books #51 by Robert D. Loomis from Random House for 3rd-6th grade in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL)
	All About Sailing the Seven Seas All About Books #40 by Ruth Brindze from Random House for 4th-7th grade in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Amelia Earhart: Kansas Girl Childhood of Famous Americans by Jane Moore Howe from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Barbary Pirates Landmark #31 by C. S. Forester, illustrated by Charles J. Mazoujian from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813 The Nautical Battle That Decided a Northern U.S. Boundary by James P. Barry from Franklin Watts for 5th-8th grade in War of 1812 (Location: HISA-19WET)
	Blockade Runners and Ironclads by Wallace B. Black from Franklin Watts for 3rd-5th grade in American Civil War Era (1850-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone from Golden Press for 4th-10th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
	Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad Landmark #9 by Adele Nathan, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Random House for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad Spencer Press Landmark #9 (RH#9) by Adele Nathan, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Spencer Press for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Captain Cook Explores the South Seas World Landmark #19 by Armstrong Sperry from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Charles A. Lindbergh A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin from Clarion Books Biography for 5th-8th grade 1998 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Charles Lindbergh Hero Pilot A Discovery Book by David R. Collins from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Clipper Ship Days The Golden Age of American Sailing Ships Landmark #22 by John Jennings, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Commodore Perry in Japan by Robert Reynolds from American Heritage Publishing Co. for 4th-8th grade in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate by Jean Lee Latham from Harper & Brothers for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Early Automobiles The Story of Horseless Carriages from the Clock-Spring Car of 1649 to Henry Ford's Model T Golden Library of Knowledge by Eugene Rachlis, illustrated by Jack Coggins from Golden Press for 1st-5th grade in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
	Early Days of Automobiles Landmark #68 by Elizabeth Janeway, illustrated by Hertha Depper from Random House for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Ferdinand Magellan World Landmark #31 by Seymour Gates Pond, illustrated by Jack Coggins from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	First Ships Around the World from Lerner Publishing Group for 4th-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
	Flight: A Panorama of Aviation by Melvin B. Zisfein; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker from Pantheon Books for 4th-6th grade in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
	Getting There Frontier Travel without Power by Suzanne Hilton from Westminster Press for 5th-Adult in Things That Go (Location: SCI-TTGO) $6.80 (1 in stock)
	Golden Age of Railroads Landmark #93 by Stewart H. Holbrook, illustrated by Ernest Richardson from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Great Railroad Race The Diary of Libby West Dear America by Kristiana Gregory from Scholastic Inc. Fictional historical journal for 3rd-6th grade in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
	Great Trains of All Time by Freeman Hubbard; illustrated by Herb Mott from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-Adult in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
	Indestructible Commodore Matthew Perry by Arthur Orrmont from Julian Messner for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ironclads of the Civil War by Frank R. Donovan from American Heritage Publishing Co. for 4th-8th grade in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
	John Paul Jones A Discovery Book by Stewart Graff, illustrated by William Hutchinson from Garrard Publishing Company for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Journal of Sean Sullivan by William Durbin 1^st edition from Scholastic Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
	Lighthouses by Arthur Smith from Houghton Mifflin for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Lindbergh Tale of a Flying Mouse by Torben Kuhlmann, Translated by David Henry Wilson from NorthSouth for 2nd-6th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $16.96
	Midway: Battle for the Pacific Landmark #119 by Edmund Castillo from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Monitor and the Merrimac Landmark #16 by Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrove II from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd Landmark #122 by A.B.C. Whipple from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd Landmark #122 by A.B.C. Whipple from Purple House Press for 5th-9th grade in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE) $12.74
	Nelson and the Age of Fighting Sail by Oliver Warner from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Old Ironsides: The Fighting Constitution Landmark #51 by Harry Hansen, illustrated by Walter Buehr from Random House for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Pirates An Illustrated History by Nigel Cawthorne from Chartwell Books for 4th-8th grade in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE) $6.40 (1 in stock)
	Robert Fulton and the Steamboat Landmark #45 by Ralph Nading Hill, illustrated by Lee Ames from Random House for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude by Louise Borden 1^st edition from Margaret K. McElderry Books for 4th-8th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Sea Disasters by Walter R. Brown & Norman D. Anderson from Addison Wesley for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Seabees of World War II Landmark #103 by Edmund Castillo, foreword by Admiral Ben Moreell, CEC, USN, illustrated with photographs from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ships and Boats by Chris Oxlade from Shooting Star Press for 4th-6th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP) $4.00 (2 in stock)
	Ships at Work by Mary Elting; illustrated by Manning De V. Lee from Harvey House, Inc., Publishers for 4th-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Ships Visual Encyclopedia by David Ross from Amber Books for 3rd-Adult in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
	Sky Pioneers The Story of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Jeanne LeMonnier Gardner, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline from Harcourt, Brace & World for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Spanish Armada by Jay Williams from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Spanish Armada by C. Hodges from Coward McCann for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Story of Amelia Earhart Signature Books #33 by Adele de Leeuw, illustrated by Harry Beckhoff from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Buffalo Bill Signature Books #1 by Edmund Collier, illustrated by Nicholas Eggenhofer from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Flight by Mary Lee Settle from Random House for 4th-7th grade in Step Up Books (Location: VIN-STEP) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Henry Ford & the Automobile Cornerstones of Freedom by Zachary Kent from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Old Ironsides by Norman Richards, illustrated by Tom Dunnington from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Ships From Log Raft the Atomic Power in Full Color by Frank O. Braynard, paintings by Fouille from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Stephen Decatur Grosset & Dunlap Signature #29 by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Graham Kaye from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Submarines Landmark #102 by George Weller, illustrated with photographs from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Story of the Clipper Ships Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of the Golden Spike Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Stein Conrad from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of The Lafayette Escadrille Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of the Spirit of St. Louis Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 2nd-6th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of the Spirit of St. Louis Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 2nd-5th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Take Command, Captain Farragut! by Peter Roop, Connie Roop 1^st edition for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Take Me Out to the Airfield How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane by Robert M. Quackenbush from Parents Magazine Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	The Story of the Erie Canal from Children's Press for 4th-6th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	To Fly The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker from Clarion Books for 4th-6th grade 2003 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $15.29
	Trail Blazer of the Seas by Jean Lee Latham from Houghton Mifflin for 5th-8th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
	We Were There at the Battle of Britain We Were There #24 by Clayton Knight & Katherine Sturges Knight from Grosset & Dunlap for 5th-9th grade in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
	We Were There at the Driving of the Golden Spike We Were There #31 by David Shepherd, illustrated by William K. Plummer from Grosset & Dunlap Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
	We Were There at the First Airplane Flight We Were There #28 by Felix Sutton, illustrated by Lazlo Matulay from Grosset & Dunlap Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
	We Were There with the Lafayette Escadrille We Were There #33 by Clayton Knight & Katherine Sturges Knight from Grosset & Dunlap Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Wings of Mystery by Dale M. Titler for 4th-8th grade in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
	Wright Brothers Pioneers of American Aviation Landmark #10 by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated by Jacob Landau from Random House for 5th-9th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Year of the Flying Machine, 1903 by Genevieve Foster from Charles Scribner's Sons for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)

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