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The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads Ben Hubbard

The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads By Ben Hubbard

The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads by Ben Hubbard

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Count down your world with an amazing mix of numbers, facts and statistics

The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads Summary

The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads by Ben Hubbard

Discover the numbers behind cars, planes, trains and rockets - from the teeny tiny to the mindbogglingly massive

Do you know how fast a space rocket blasts through the sky? Or how deep under the sea submarines have ventured? How about the number of electric cars on the road? Or the top speed of NASA's crawler transporter (hint - it's not very fast!) Discover the answers to all these questions and much more in The Big Countdown: Transport.

Helping readers to visualise and understand numbers, The Big Countdown series looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to the smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it's not just our days that are numbered. Ideal reading for number-crunchers aged 9 and up.

About Ben Hubbard

Ben Hubbard began his writing career at a what's-on newspaper in the 1990s, interviewing bands, actors and artists in his native Wellington, New Zealand. He later joined the fast-paced world of daily newspaper journalism before packing up shop and moving to England. Here, Ben tied a number of new strings to his bow: magazine editor, book editor, and finally, author. Today, Ben writes a mix of non-fiction for all ages - preschoolers through to adults. He has penned titles on an eclectic subject range: from space exploration, samurai warriors and medieval castles; to pop music, pets, tornadoes and rugby skills.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Counting down the world's transport vehicles
  • 2: 238,539,663 km travelled by Space Shuttle Discovery
  • 3: 1,051,839 km of railway track in the world
  • 4: The Antonov An-225 Mriya aircraft can lift 253,820 kg
  • 5: 200,000 cubic metres of air in the Hindenburg zeppelin
  • 6: The Trieste submarine descended to a depth of 10,916 metres
  • 7: 6,780 passengers can travel aboard the HMS Harmony of the Seas
  • 8: 4,136 merchant ships in Greece
  • 9: 1,228 km/h is the land speed record set by supersonic car Thrust SSC
  • 10: A 450 tonne load can be transported by the BelAZ 75710 truck
  • 11: Around 25% of the world's CO2 emissions come from transport vehicles
  • 12: The top speed of NASA's Crawler-Transporter is 3.2 km/h
  • 13: Two wheels on a bicycle

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NGR9781445160863
9781445160863
1445160862
The Big Countdown: 1.5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads by Ben Hubbard
Ben Hubbard
The Big Countdown
New
Paperback
Hachette Children's Group
2020-03-26
32
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