Transport Technology & Trades

From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant G...

Rare views of the beginnings of a historic space programAfter the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious ne...

Even before American involvement in World War I, motor vehicle manufacturing in the United States was widespread and diverse, though the war ser...

The astronaut crime that shocked the world.Star Crossed transports readers to the moment the news broke that one of America's heroes, an astronaut ...

Reducing Airlines Carbon Footprint is the answer to the airline executives problems, when it comes to looking for ways to reduce aircraft operation...

Electricity is vital on board most boats: to keep their systems running and to provide the crew with the services they expect. Much of it will be p...

For all our nostalgia about the Golden Age of Air Travel, it was more mythical than we like to think.  As with other forms of transport then, until...

For all our nostalgia about the Golden Age of Air Travel, it was more mythical than we like to think.  As with other forms of transport then, until...

If the United States couldnt catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kenned...

Once, the output of such yards as Harland & Wolff and Workman, Clark was vital business of national and international importance. The Harland &...

The UK has set a legal target of net-zero global warming emissions for 2050. The evidence concerning the devastating effects of climate change is w...

The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of U.S. battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their ...

The Potemkin and Aurora are two ships that bookended the Russian Revolution. The Potemkin, a battleship of the Black Sea Fleet, led the first na...

In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket booste...

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shutt...

Conventional fossil fuels will constitute the majority of automotive fuels for the foreseeable future but will have to adapt to changes in engine t...

This book tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized. The first Zeppelin attack on Lon...

Designed between 1969 and 1972 and first flown into space in 1981, the NASA Shuttle will have flown almost 140 missions by the time it is retired i...