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Articles

A 50 dollar wager and the first drive across America

A dissertation rejected as utopian, and the book that followed

A patent granted weeks before the Wrights and a model that never reached the fair

A publicity stunt on wheels: Alice Ramsey and the Maxwell transcontinental drive

A windshield wiper patent that outran its market

Aluminium pistons, rotary aero engines and the first Bentley

Before the steamboat, Fulton built a submarine

Bell's search for lift, from kites to a hydrofoil speed record

Beverley Bass: the captain who landed at Gander and became a stage character

Clive Sinclair, the C5 and the long search for a personal electric vehicle

Colin Chapman and the habit of finding advantage inside the rules

From Delta's Atlanta hub to feeder ships and freight yards

From farm equipment and Colt to a Detroit machine shop

From Fenian funding to a Navy commission

From Ford supplier to rival carmaker: the Dodge brothers and the machine shop

From garage mechanic to Honda Motor: the ruined factories and the partner behind the company

From patent to road test: how the Benz Motorwagen became a usable car

From private pilot to Air India chairman: JRD Tata and Indian aviation

From racing specials to the Mini: the design career of Alec Issigonis

From rocket sled to seat belt: John Stapp and the evidence for crash protection

From the Barn Gang to the self-starter, and the leaded gasoline decision

From the pointer telegraph to the electric tram

From Türkkuşu trainee to contested first: the training and record of Sabiha Gökçen

From wheel-hub motors to the Lohner-Porsche hybrid

Hanna Reitsch in the test pilot's seat: helicopter, rocket plane and piloted flying bomb

Henry Ford's Five Dollar Day and the Turnover Problem

How a 1918 flying accident led to Canada's first wheelchair accessible bus service

How a tern helped Eddie Rickenbacker survive three weeks adrift in the Pacific

How car-free advocacy became built neighborhoods

How Dean Kamen's iBOT Wheelchair Taught the Segway to Balance

How George Romney bet American Motors on the compact car

How housing policy and highway building created the transport divide

How Jacqueline Cochran helped put women pilots into wartime aircraft ferrying

How John DeLorean turned a lagging Pontiac Grand Prix into a sales success by sharing costs with Chevrolet

How Mysore turned the iron-cased rocket into an army arm

How the draisienne craze rose and faded

John Dodge: from bicycle bearings to Ford supplier to Dodge Brothers

Keeping the workforce through the 1949 crisis

Mock parking tickets and the campaign against urban 4×4s

One small engine for land, water and air

Rubber for the automobile age and the price paid in Liberia

The Crystal Palace Demonstration That Made the Safety Elevator Sell

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

The customer who specified the Mercedes

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

The equation Tsiolkovsky dated to a single day in 1897

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

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

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

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

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

The newspaper that said a rocket could not work in space

The president who could not retire the Model T: Edsel Ford and the road to the Model A

The race to Promontory: how Union Pacific built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad

The safety lamp dispute

The transatlantic flight Amelia Earhart did not fly

Thirty years between two helicopters: Igor Sikorsky

Tracing the Wan Hu legend back to its first tellers

Two aero club prizes and the question of who flew first

What David Dunbar Buick built, and what he lost

What makes a street complete, and who pushes back