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This category is the index of the Learn More articles that the atlas's entities carry. They are longer prose than an entity page itself, and they are drafted only when article authoring is active, as a dedicated end of phase pass rather than continuously. Most articles here are still pending review. The category is not a subject in its own right, and it excludes the entities the articles are about, which live under their own types.

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Reliable and economical, but short of power in CART

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Rubber as the spring: Alex Moulton from the Mini to the small-wheeled bicycle

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Rubber for the automobile age and the price paid in Liberia

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Running without coolant: the Northstar limp-home mode and its head gasket bolts

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Safety by deformation: Béla Barényi, the crumple zone and the patent count

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Saving the Wolfsburg factory from the scrap heap

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Selling the steel body to the car makers

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Simon Lake after the Navy chose Holland: European contracts, a torpedo boat company and salvage work

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Sliding wing tips in the shadow of the Wright patent

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Steering an aircraft with its own exhaust

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Stout, the Trimotor and the car that never sold

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Sylvester Roper: a steam pioneer and the open question of firsts

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Tethered hops in 1906 and an engine that lasted longer

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The 1655 carriage and the man who built it: Stephan Farffler

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The 1709 airship petition and the legend that grew around it

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The 23 class: too heavy, but still useful

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The 919 Hybrid V4: a small engine the car was built around

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The autoclave Lamborghini would not buy

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The aviator who was declared dead and walked back into the record

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The bomber that was flown into balloon cables

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The Bulldog top speed: promised, tested and finally recorded

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The C family in the Honda NSX: a 90 degree V6 and its firsts

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The Chrysler Firepower: a concept built on existing hardware that never reached production

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The combustion half of a hybrid Le Mans Hypercar

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The contested claim that a Scottish blacksmith built the first pedal bicycle

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The Crystal Palace Demonstration That Made the Safety Elevator Sell

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The Curved Dash and the first moving assembly line: what Ransom Olds did before Ford

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The customer who specified the Mercedes

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The Diesel Engine's Edge, and an Unsolved Disappearance at Sea

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The Dodge Hornet: a revived name and a long search for a platform

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The Douglas XB-31: a bomber born of a committee report and a tour of German air bases

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The equation Tsiolkovsky dated to a single day in 1897

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The flight of Abbas ibn Firnas and the single late account behind it

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The Galvani: an electric locomotive ahead of its batteries

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The Grand Sport: a racing Corvette built against a company ban

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The Homebuilt Monoplane Behind Herberts Cukurs's Long-Distance Fame

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The Ideal X and the question of who was first in containerization

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The iron frame that undid Pierre Michaux and the disputed credit for the bicycle

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The jumbo jet designed to become a freighter

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The Kawasaki KH-4: a Bell 47 given an enclosed cabin

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The Ki-96: a fighter finished for two different requirements

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The ladder of success: how Sloan organized General Motors to sell cars

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The last Gordon: NZ629 on Mount White

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The licence, the legend and the record of Raymonde de Laroche

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The Marcus myth: dating the first petrol-powered vehicle

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The McLaren test that ended the Lamborghini V12 in Formula One

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The Model T as a tractor and portable engine

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The newspaper that said a rocket could not work in space

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The organizer who built the business behind Rolls-Royce

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The patent that taxed early American cars

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