History and operation of cable cars. Includes virtual tour, a full roster of current San Francisco cable cars and a detailed explanation of how a cable car works.
Focuses on stories of pilots who flew alone around the world before the introduction of the GPS. Includes a chronological list of flights, details about selected flights, statistics.
Digital collection of items related to the Wright brothers, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drawings, glass-plate photographic negatives, timeline and family tree.
Companion site to a NOVA PBS program. Includes a description of the first media coverage of the historic flight and an interview with the senior curator of the National Air and Space Museum.
Provides details of the design process and a thorough background on the historical significance of the Hughes H-1 airplane. Includes audio clips of
Howard Hughes, the creator of the original 1935 H-1.
Facts about and pictures of things related to the Reading Railroad. Includes images of historic boxcars, hoppers, flatcars, gondolas, nonrevenue equipment, cabooses, locomotives and train stations.
Digital images from Wright State University Libraries’ Wright Brothers Collection of the Wrights’ early inventive period documenting their experimental gliders and flight testing in both North Carolina and Ohio.