Transport Atlas

How The World Moves
How people and goods move

Every mode, one connected map of movement.

Transport Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of transportation, from rail and road to maritime and aviation. Search any mode and follow its threads through the vehicle, the figure and the infrastructure that shaped it.

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History of technology

Who should be credited as radar's inventor: Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 patent, Robert Watson-Watt's 1935 Daventry Experiment, or one of the other near-simultaneous 1930s national radar programs in Germany, France, the United States or the Soviet Union?

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