Transportation
Sky Writer
Anne Morrow Lindbergh chronicled the flights made with her celebrated husband
November 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Inventive Abe
In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
October 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Airmail Letter
Stale Mail: The nation's first hot-air balloon postal deliveries barely got off the ground.
August 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
The Death of the EV-1
Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing
June 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
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
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
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
Wild Thing
For 100 years, Harleys have fueled our road-warrior fantasies
August 2003 |
By Robert F. Howe
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
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
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
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


