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Ferdinand Porsche: Engineering for Empires and Beyond

by Aaron Aaberg
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781923545045
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 210
  • Original Price: USD 23.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 286 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Science & Technology

Across six turbulent decades Ferdinand Porsche sketched, soldered and strategised his way from a Bohemian tinsmith's shop to the boardrooms that powered monarchies, dictatorships and global brands. His wheel-hub motors dazzled the Paris Expo of 1900; his super-charged "Kompressor" cars ruled inter-war racing; his design for the KdF-Wagen became the Volkswagen Beetle; and his forced-labor tank projects darkened the Eastern Front. After 1945 the sawmill workshops of Gm�nd birthed the 356 coup�, the 550 Spyder and, ultimately, the 911-machines that rewrote the grammar of speed while financing a consultancy whose fingerprints now span Formula One turbos and dual-clutch road cars.

Drawing on factory minutes, dyno sheets, interrogation transcripts and race reports, Ferdinand Porsche: Engineering for Empires and Beyond tells a double-edged story of brilliance and complicity. It follows the man who could reduce friction to decimals yet left moral questions unanswered, and it charts how an idea of lightweight, rear-engine efficiency survived regime change, imprisonment and the discipline of global markets. Fact-only, narrative-rich, this book threads mechanical ingenuity and industrial ethics into a single, unflinching chronicle of the engineer whose echo still powers the roads-and debates-of the twenty-first century.

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