Transportation
Into a Desert Place: A Talk With Graham Mackintosh
In remote fishing camps along the shoreline, a few older fishermen remember a red-haired Englishman who tramped through 30 years ago, disappearing around the next point.
November 17, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
Zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes
An inventor's plans for traveling inside a giant bullet would have made a trip across the Bay a fast one
November 14, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Arthur Radebaugh’s Shiny Happy Future
For five years, a popular comic strip gave us a preview of life in Suburbatopia
November 04, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Burbank’s Aerial Monorail of the Future
A bold vision for a propeller-driven train never quite got off the ground
November 02, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
The Tuskegee Airmen Plane's Last Flight
The final voyage of a World War II biplane evokes the exploits of the legendary fighting force
November 2011 |
By Owen Edwards
TV’s “Pan Am:” A Case of Misplaced Nostalgia
Who doesn't miss the retro glories of the early Jet Age celebrated in the ABC series? But enough with the sexy stewardesses already
October 27, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
1955 Imagines Travel in 1965
The Ford Motor Company envisioned a Batmobile in every garage.
October 25, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Thomas Edison’s Brief Stint As A Homemaker
The famous inventor envisioned a future of inexpensive, prefabricated concrete homes.
October 21, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Where to Get a Great Rug, and a Helping of Navajo Culture
Connoisseurs of Native American textiles know to go to the Crownpoint, New Mexico, Navajo Rug Auction
October 17, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
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
The Wild World of the Black Sea
Throngs of visitors come clamoring for the place and spill onto the beach and pose exuberantly under umbrellas and wrestle with colorful inflatable toys in the brown waves
September 29, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
When We All Commute by Airplane
If commuting to work via personal aeroplane was the future, how might the design of cities change to accommodate them?
September 27, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Tragedy at the Reno Air Races
Air and Space editor Linda Shiner reports on her meeting with pilot Jimmy Leeward and what it was like in the pits that day
September 19, 2011 |
By Linda Shiner, Air and Space magazine
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
A Musical Tour Along the Crooked Road
Grab a partner. Bluegrass and country tunes that tell America's story are all the rage in hilly southern Virginia
September 2011 |
By Abigail Tucker
William Eggleston's Big Wheels
This enigmatic 1970 portrait of a tricycle took photography down a whole new road
August 2011 |
By Mark Feeney
Drones are Ready for Takeoff
Will unmanned aerial vehicles—drones—soon take civilian passengers on pilotless flights?
June 2011 |
By Richard Conniff
In Case of Emergency, Pack Snowshoes
In 1933, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh prepared for the worst by packing winter gear before flying over the Arctic
January 2011 |
By Owen Edwards
Catching the Bamboo Train
Rural Cambodians cobbled old tank parts and scrap lumber into an ingenious way to get around
January 2011 |
By Russ Juskalian
