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The Lindberghs piloted this tandem seat, single-engine aircraft, outfitted to Charles

Sky Writer

Anne Morrow Lindbergh chronicled the flights made with her celebrated husband
November 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Abraham Lincoln

Inventive Abe

In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
October 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Balloon Jupiter had to land after 30 miles; its mail (here) was sent on by train.

Airmail Letter

Stale Mail: The nation's first hot-air balloon postal deliveries barely got off the ground.
August 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Although owners prized their EV1s, the manufacturer did not relent.

The Death of the EV-1

Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing
June 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Once the end of the line, the desert oasis of Alice Springs is now merely the halfway point on the rail line that knits Australia together.

Full Speed Ahead

A railroad, finally, crosses Australia's vast interior—linking not only the continent's south with its north, but also its past to its future
January 2006 | By Simon Worrall

Link said he wanted "to preserve a beautiful era" and show "how the railroad interacted with the people who lived along the line."

The Big Picture

A well-planned single image yells the story of 20th-century transportation
December 2005 | By Christine Dell'Amore

Fuel for Thought

Cars that run on vegetable oil? Do-it-yourselfers and entrepreneurs alike fill 'er up with the nation's fastest-growing propellant
September 2005 | By Frances Cerra Whittelsey

Easy Riders

For whistle-stop campaigning or just rolling down memory lane, nothing could be finer than your own railroad car
September 2004 | By Myron Beckenstein

a Titanic life vest

Titanic Sank This Morning

An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
April 2004 | By Owen Edwards

A Century of Flight - Taking Wing

From the Wright brothers' breakthrough 100 years ago this month to the latest robot jets, the past century has been shaped by the men and women who got us off the ground
December 2003 | By Andrew Curry

Crash Junkie

Flight instructor Craig Fuller scales mountains, combs deserts and trudges through wilderness to track down old airplane wrecks
November 2003 | By Reed Karaim

[ 1942 Harley-Davidson ] National Museum of American History

Wild Thing

For 100 years, Harleys have fueled our road-warrior fantasies
August 2003 | By Robert F. Howe

"Right livelihood," says electric boatbuilder Charles Houghton, is "when everything you have done in your life comes together."

Batteries Included

Let's hear it shhhh, not so loud for electric boats
July 2003 | By Lance Morrow

By the fall of 1902, the Wright brothers (near Kitty Hawk in October of that year) had solved the most vexing problems of human flight, namely lift and control, with a succession of gliders. Now they were finally ready to focus on propulsion.

To Fly!

A new book traces the Wright brothers' triumph 100 years ago to an innovative design and meticulous attention to detail
April 2003 | By James Tobin

Hewed From History

In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
April 2003 | By T. Edward Nickens

Cmdr. Bobbie Scholley

Pieces of History

Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end
November 2002 | By Wendy Mitman Clarke

More than 200 converted World War II DUKWs ply the nation

Odd DUKW

On land and in the water, World War II's amphibian workhorse showed the skeptics a thing or two now it shows tourists the sights
August 2002 | By Thomas B. Allen

Comet's Tale

A half century ago, the first jet airliner delighted passengers with swift, smooth flights until a fatal structural flaw doomed its glory
June 2002 | By Robert G. Pushkar

Poling on the River

Batteaux were once the lifeblood of Virginia commerce; now locals celebrate those bygone days
June 2002 | By T. Edward Nickens

As the fabric-covered plane came to a halt, frenzied sou-venir hunters tore at it, putting French officials on guard. Hailed in his home state of Minnesota, the 25-year-old pilot hated the nickname Lucky, bestowed on him after the flight. After sleeping in splendor at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, he awoke to a life, he said, "that could hardly have been more amazing if I had landed on another planet." On an old postcard kept by the Richards family, Tudor Richards has written, "We saw him land!"

We saw him land!

In a long-lost letter an American woman describes Lindbergh's tumultuous touchdown in Paris—75 years ago this month
May 01, 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine


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