This portable transport vehicle shows what is possible in terms of future transport. Its space age design is unlike anything seen in use today.

Photographic essay recalls some of the best technological advances of the 1950s in cooking, personal hygiene, radio, laundry, television, transportation, and more.

Roman Transports. - Greenough, 1899

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...

A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

"South China comprises the drainage basins of the middle and lower Yangtze River, the basin of the His Chiang (West River) in Kwangtung and Kwangsi; and the mountainous coastal provinces of Fukien and Chekiang. The division between the...

A map showing the canals and navigable rivers of north Germany in 1916. This map illustrates the importance of water transport to the major inland German cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Breslau, Dresden, Dusseldorf, and Cologne.

A map from 1912 of India, showing the major agricultural production regions for millets and pulses (grain crops), cotton, coffee, opium and tobacco. The map shows major cities, rivers, and terrain that effect cultivation and...

A map of Ireland in 1920 showing primary and secondary railway routes with the line names, transportation canals, and steamship routes with distances between ports shown in nautical miles. The map shows major cities, ports, rivers, and...

A map from 1903 of North America. The focus of this map is the Dominions of Canada, showing the transportation network in from Montreal east to Quebec and Nova Scotia, and west to Vancouver, British Columbia. The map shows the...

A map of the English county of Norfolk showing cities and the transportation network.

A map of the English county of Northumberland from 1903, which was once the Kingdom of Northumberland or Northumbria. This map shows cities, mountains, rivers, and the transportation network.

Silas Talbot (11 January 1751 - 30 June 1813) was an officer in the Continental Army and in the Continental Navy. Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS Constitution from 1798 to 1801. Talbot was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. He...

Railroads in the contiguous 48 states as of 1898.

Railroad lines in actual operation in October of 1860.

Notable battles and districts connected with famous authors and their books: Early highways expanding westward.

Navigable rivers in the United States in about 1820.

Means of transit in the eastern United States in 1861.

Rail routes competing with the future isthmian canal (1906).

A map from 1901 showing the railroad network in the United States at the time.

A map from 1910 of the United States showing the railway network and connecting steamship lines. This map distinguishes the transcontinental railroads and secondary lines, and shows the standardized time zones used in 1910. The clock...

Egyptian War-chariot

A Roman chariot.

A wheel from an Ancient Egyptian chariot.