
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...
Inventions and Inventors
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Insights into the pioneers of land transport, their inventions and discoveries – the bicycle, bus, motor car and motorcycle. The history of land travel inventions...