“Aha, I know the first car in the world,” you think, but you are wrong. You are thinking of the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, and while that was the first car to feature an internal combustion engine, it was not the first car ever made. The first car ever built was this hulking, steaming, smoking monster, and it’s from 1769.
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The 1st. Auto – Cugnot’s 1769 fardier à vapeur
Published October 31, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: antique auto, auto, fardier à vapeur, history, Nicholas-Josef Cugnot, steam dray, steam engine, transportation
Longest Truck in The World – Australian Road Train [video]
Published October 26, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, Longest Truck, Road Train, transportation, video
The Khufu Ship – Intact, 4500-Year-Old Ship
Published October 3, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: ancient history, Egypt, Giza, Giza pyramids, history, Khufu ship, King Cheops, sailing, transportation
The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship now is preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops), the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
Repainting An Airbus A380 In 90 Seconds [video]
Published July 8, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Airbus A380, airline maintenance, airplane, commercial airliner, Emirates Airline, timelapse, transportation, travel, video
Technology Marches On – Comparisons Between Old and New Tech
Published May 30, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: advancement, better, history, medicine, technology, transportation
Cracked presented 20 examples of how technological advances have made life better for everyone.
How To Lay Railroad Track [video]
Published April 7, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: automation, rail, rail travel, railroad, Railroad Track, Swietelsky RU 800S, transportation, video
Photos Of The Worlds Largest Ship Under Construction
Published October 22, 2014 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: container ship, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, industry, Maersk Triple E, photography, picture, sailing, shipping, shipyard, South Korea, transportation, World's Largest Ship
This blog has photos of a Maersk Triple E ship being built in South Korea. Twenty of these container ships are scheduled to be produced by 2015. Triple E can carry 18,000 containers – 11 layers tall inside and 10 layers tall above deck.
1959 Curtiss-Wright Hover Car
Published March 4, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: auto design, automobile, Curtiss-Wright Hover Car, hovercraft, Model 2500 Air Car, prototype, transportation
Sucksqueezebangblow.co reports –
Developed by Curtiss-Wright in 1959, the Model 2500 Air Car wasn’t really a car at all, more a kind of family hovercraft. However, keen to tap into the increasingly extravagant and innovative motor car market of the era, they styled it to look like a car, with headlights, indicators, bumpers and a convertible roof. It was powered by a pair of 180hp Lycoming engines (one at the front and one at the back), driving lift fans that created a foot-tall cushion of air; propulsion came from bleeding air from the fan chambers and blasting it out of the louvres at the sides. Simple in construct, it was a pretty promising idea, were it not for the fact that it really only worked well on perfectly flat surfaces. The military took an interest for a while, but abandoned their own development program as untenable in 1961.
Continue reading and watch a video of the car HERE.
World’s Smallest Street Legal Car – Peel P50
Published February 14, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Auto Industry, automobile, Isle of Man, Peel, Peel P50, Smart car, street legal, transportation, UK, world's smallest car
Peel, of the UK, hand builds reproduction models of their classic 1960’s P50. They claim that it is street legal in the US and UK. The specs are underwhelming – 1 passenger, 3 wheels, 130 pounds total weight, 30mph top speed, fiberglass body, unspecified engine. And the really bad news is a reported price of $16,000. I think it’s cute, but way, way too small, and $16,000???
Inventor Plans To Produce Cardboard Bicycle
Published October 18, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: bicycle, cardboard, Cardboard bicycle, high tech material, inventor, Israel, Izhar Gafni, transportation, two wheeler
His (Izhar Gafni) maintenance-free bike uses a “secret” mix of organic materials to make it waterproof and fireproof, and is then lacquered to give it a friendlier appearance. It’s expected to cost a mere $20 and weigh about 20 lbs (9 kg) — that’s 65 percent lighter than an average metal ride. In fact, this bicycle doesn’t use any metal parts at all — the solid tires are made of reconstituted rubber and a car timing belt is used instead of a chain.
Continue reading and watch video HERE
Report On Condition of US Highway System
Published April 29, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, economy, pothole, transportation, TRIP, US highway
A report just released quantifies the physical condition (potholes, or lack of potholes) of the US highway system. It breaks down the figures by state and metropolitan area, but it doesn’t rank them from first to worst, it simply list them alphabetically, although the worst offenders are highlighted. The report is from American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and TRIP (a national highway research group).