Who invented Rubber?
The Secret of Rubber – Vulcanization We hardly ever think about it, but rubber makes our world a better place. That’s what it was intended to...
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Modern Flight Traceable to 1840s Model Airplanes
The Wright Brothers and airplanes go together but what of William Hanson and John Stringfellow? They could have eclipsed them. Stringfellow and Hanson, it’s reasonable...
Who invented Stirling Heat Engine?
The Stirling Heat Engine, Clean, Green, and Quiet Power Source Almost 200 hundred years ago the principles of an unusual engine were outlined by an unlikely...
Who Invented the Car?
Gas-Powered Cars Give Rise to the Car Industry . How Gasoline Engines were Invented and Implemented? The gasoline engine was pivotal to the creation of automobiles....
First Gasoline-Fuelled Car in Canada 1898
John Moodie Imported the “Winton” Automobile from Cleveland, Ohio The Winton Phaeton was a ‘horseless carriage’, the first automobile fuelled by gas in Canada. Colonel...
Who invented Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Origins of Hybrid Electric Vehicles. New Hybrid Cars and The History of Electric Hybrid Vehicles A short hybrid car history, from the Lohner-Porsche Mixte, through the...
Cars in the 1920s – The Early Automobile Industry
Although the automobile had been invented decades before the 1920s, they were so expensive few people could afford to have one. Mass production, combined with...
Who invented the Diesel Engine
Controversy surrounds the demise of the diesel engine’s inventor. Objects from a body pulled from the English Channel proved the identity of Rudolph Diesel but...
How invented the first Airplane?
When did the wright brothers make their first successful airplane flight? The breakthrough was their invention of three-axis control, which enabled effective steering and maintaining...
Land Transport: Pioneering Ideas – Innovators and their Inventions and Discoveries
Insights into the pioneers of land transport, their inventions and discoveries – the bicycle, bus, motor car and motorcycle. The history of land travel inventions...