Cars
The World’s First “Carphone”
Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car.
January 25, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
Mobsters Tremble Before the Crime-Fighting, Red Flying Gondola
Science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback predicted that, as long as police officers were stuck on terra firma, criminals always would have the edge
January 06, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future
Arthur Radebaugh's vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
December 16, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
1955 Imagines Travel in 1965
The Ford Motor Company envisioned a Batmobile in every garage.
October 25, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Today at War, Tomorrow in Stores
Advertisers in the 1940s promised American consumers that they would be rewarded for their wartime sacrifices on the homefront
October 12, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
October 04, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Park(ing) Day’s Roadside Attraction
The founders of Park(ing) Day discuss the birth of their idea and how it became a global phenomenom
September 14, 2011 |
By Jeff Greenwald
Charging Ahead With a New Electric Car
An entrepreneur hits the road with a new approach for an all-electric car that overcomes its biggest shortcoming
August 2010 |
By Joshua Hammer
Taking the Great American Roadtrip
In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land
September 2009 |
By Paul Theroux
Great Road Trips in American Literature
From Twain to Kerouac to Bryson, writers have found inspiration in hitting the road and traveling the United States
August 20, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Alice Ramsey's Historic Cross-Country Drive
In 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey made history as the first woman to drive across the United States
June 05, 2009 |
By Marina Koestler Ruben
Buckle Up Your Seatbelt and Behave
Do we take more risks when we feel safe? Fifty years after we began using the three-point seatbelt, there's a new answer
April 2009 |
By William Ecenbarger
The Truth About Traffic
Author Tom Vanderbilt Shows Why Cars and People Don’t Mix
August 25, 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Death of the EV-1
Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing
June 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Wow! A Mile a Minute!
But 60 mph was a breeze to Barney Oldfield, better known as the "speed king" of the horseless carriage world
May 1998 |
By Michael Kernan
