Category:Transportation
Background
Traversing the Earth through land, sea and air has been one of the driving factors behind technological innovation. From the ancient invention of the wheel to modern devices like trains, planes and automobiles, transportation remains a constant concern for society.
By water, human ancestors were already boating great distances thousands of years ago. Originally at the mercy of currents, human-powered oars were soon adopted, and ultimately the wind was harnessed.
On land, humans always sought ways to travel and transport more efficiently, from the wheel barrows to bicycles to skateboards. Animals—as in “Horsepower”—provided the energy for one of the oldest forms of engineered transportation methods, used by humans for thousands of years before its decline in the 19th century. James Watt's 1781 steam engine revolutionized travel and gave power to early locomotives and transformed the ship to free it not just from tides from winds as well. Eventually, steam gave way to electricity, and Frank Sprague made huge advancements in electrification of railroads. The Richmond Union Passenger Railway line served as a prototype for the first commercial street car. Olds and others pioneered the use of the internal combustion engine for transportation, and Henry Ford would later mass produce automobiles, making them an affordable reality for people around the world. The Wright brothers and other pioneers began heavier than air human flight at the beginning of the 20th century, and Jet engines were developed during World War II, along with the V1 and V2 Rockets that would set the stage for the developments in both air and space travel over the next decades. At the same time, water travel was no longer limited to the surface, but a whole new world was opened up by underwater oceanic engineering developments.
Subcategories
- Aerospace engineering - Topics pertaining to designing vehicles and their electronic systems meant for flying in the atmosphere or in space
- Aviation - Concerns with transportation in the air
- Airborne radar - Radar designed to be mounted in aircraft
- Automotive engineering - Topics related to the design of automobiles including automotive electronics and vehicle crash testing
- Freight transportation - Methods of transporting cargo
- Intelligent transportation systems - The integration of communications, information science and control systems into transportation systems
- Land mobile radio equipment - Radios used in vehicles, typically automobiles
- Land transportation - Broad topics dealing with land transportation, including road and rails
- Marine transportation - Broad topics dealing with marine transportation
- Navigation - Topics relating to tracking a vehicle's position, including satellite navigation systems and radar navigation
- Propulsion - Engines which produce thrust to drive a vehicle forward including aircraft propulsion and rockets
- Traffic management - Topics dealing with the control of traffic congestion and flow
- Vehicles - Types of vehicles such as aircraft, rail vehicles and road vehicles
- Wireless sensor networks - Networks of sensors which monitor various conditions
Subcategories
This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.
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Pages in category "Transportation"
The following 296 pages are in this category, out of 296 total.
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- First-Hand:A Right Brain Romantic's Memories of Satellites and Deep Space Probes
- Philip Abelson
- First-Hand:Adventures on the USS Intrepid
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society History
- Archives:Aerospace Computer Characteristics and Design Trends
- Archives:Future of Air Traffic Control Systems
- Air tankers
- Air Traffic Control and Radar
- Archives:Air Traffic Control Lecture
- Aircraft Carriers in World War II
- Antoinette and early flight simulation
- Milestones:Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972
- Archives:Applications of Electronics to Automobiles of the Future
- Francis Lawrence Armstrong
- Gerald R. Ash
- Oral-History:Karl Astrom
- Atmospheric Railway
- Norman R. Augustine
- Archives:Upcoming Decade of Automotive Electronics
- Archives:Electronics in Commercial Aviation
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- Oral-History:Robert Baim
- Oral-History:Paul Baran
- Barrel (Unit of Measurement)
- Wilmer Barrow
- Don Bateman
- Lloyd V. Berkner
- Emile Berliner
- Oral-History:Rene Bidard
- Douglas Dillard Bigbie
- Bill Jack Scientific Instruments
- Guy Bluford
- Electric Boats
- May Bradford Shepherd
- Walter H. Brattain
- Alberto Broggi
- Oral-History:Merrill Buckley
- Milestones:Budapest Metroline No.1., 1896
- Build It and They Will Come: The Far-Reaching Effects of Global Positioning Systems
- Henri Busignies
- Francis Edward Butler
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- George Carruthers
- Archives:A Century of Electricals
- Chain Home
- C.C. Chan
- Yvonne Clark
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Clarke Suggests Geosynchronous Orbit
- Christopher Cockerell
- Combined relative and absolute positioning method and apparatus (Patent)
- Commercially Viable Streetcar
- Archives:Communications - Tomorrow's Substitute for Transportation
- Oral-History:Lois Cooper
- Oral-History:Warren Cooper
- Jacques Cousteau
- Cugnot's Fardier
- C. Chapin Cutler
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- Images of Edison's World
- Thomas Edison's Children
- Edison's Alkaline Battery
- First-Hand:Education and Management in an IEEE Life Member's Career
- Charles Elachi
- Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
- Milestones:Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 1907
- Archives:Electronic Reliability Monitoring: Key to Productivity
- First-Hand:Electrophysiology and Defense, EKGs, Electroshock Therapy, and Antisubmarine Weaponry
- Oral-History:Lloyd Espenschied
- Oral-History:Thelma Estrin (1992)
- First-Hand:ETAK, an early vehicle navigation system
- Ethanol
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- Oral-History:Federico Faggin
- Oral-History:Alma Martinez Fallon
- Fathometer
- Fessenden's underwater ice finder
- Richard Feynman
- First-Hand:Evolution of the 2-Person Crew Jet Transport Flight Deck
- Oral-History:Joseph Fischer
- Flight Data Recorder
- Henry Ford
- Oral-History:Ted Foster
- Emilio Frazzoli
- Oral-History:Herbert Freeman
- Oral-History:Robert Friedel
- First-Hand:From Radio Engineering to War-Time Research
- Eugene Fubini
- Buckminster Fuller
- Oral-History:Bert Fung
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- Gasoline
- General Electric (GE)
- Ivan Getting
- Peter Glaser
- Global Positioning System
- Robert H. Goddard
- Oral-History:Frank W. Godsey
- Track model constraint for GPS position (Patent)
- GPS based tracking system (Patent)
- Oral-History:Dimitry Grabbe
- Grand Central Terminal
- Oral-History:John Granger
- Great Eastern
- Samuel Dana Greene
- Oral-History:John Gregory
- Oral-History:William Gretsch
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- Eldon Conrad Hall
- Hao Huang
- Kiruba S. Haran
- Oral-History:Charles Harper
- First-Hand:Haywood Satz Lunar Module simulator
- Oral-History:Marlene Hazle
- Oral-History:Fred Heath
- Warren E. Henry
- Oral-History:Clarence Nichols Hickman
- First-Hand:History of an ASEE Fellow (Kanti Prasad)
- Oral-History:Wallace Hoff
- Oral-History:Mel Hotz
- Human Space Travel Primary Sources
- Lawrence A. Hyland
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- Rudolf E. Kalman
- Oral-History:Ki Dong Kang
- Oral-History:Gunther Karger
- Oral-History:Walter Karplus
- Oral-History:Myron Kayton
- Oral-History:Arthur C. Keller
- Thomas J. Kelly
- Oral-History:Warren A. Kesselman
- Charles F. Kettering
- Harry A. Kidder
- James R. Killian, or how Sputnik paid for college educations
- Robert D. King
- Philip T. Krein
- Oral-History:Yoshihiro Kyotani
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- William P. Lear
- First-Hand:LearJet, Auto Pilot and Eight Tracks
- J. Wesley Leas
- Gentry Lee
- Oral-History:Gerard Lehmann
- Jerome Lemelson
- Bruno Lequesne
- First-Hand:Lessons Learned from Six Decades of Spacecraft Guidance and Control Experiences
- Oral-History:Frank Lewis
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- George B. Litchford
- Locating an object using GPS with additional data (Patent)
- Burton J. Loupee
- Oral-History:James Lovell
- First-Hand:Low-thrust Interplanetary Vehicles
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- M4 Sherman
- Oral-History:Carol G. Maclennan
- Asad M. Madni
- Marine turboelectric drive
- Oral-History:James L. Massey
- Oral-History:Ferdy Mayer
- Oral-History:Naomi McAfee
- Oral-History:Arthur McComas
- Oral-History:James McNaul
- Oral-History:Lou Meren
- Milestones:Merrill Wheel-Balancing System, 1945
- Oral-History:Robert Metcalfe
- Method and apparatus for measuring relative heading changes in a vehicular onboard navigation system (Patent)
- Ouyang Minggao
- Oral-History:Jerry B. Minter
- Masahiko Miyaki
- Milestones:Mode S Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System, 1969-1995
- John J. Mooney
- Garrett A. Morgan
- First-Hand:My Experiences as a Space Engineer: The Pre-launch Years
- First-Hand:My Life Over 60 Years in the Development of Our National Energy Systems
- First-Hand:My Personal History With APS, Part 1
- First-Hand:My Personal History With APS, Part 2a
- First-Hand:My Personal History With APS, Part 2b
- First-Hand:My Personal History, part 3
- First-Hand:My Technical Career
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- Oral-History:Brad Parkinson
- Petroleum Transportation Tanks
- William Pickering
- Oral-History:John Pierce
- Oral-History:John Pierce (Part 2)
- Oral-History:John Pierce (Part 3)
- Oral-History:Kenneth Plante
- William B. Potter
- Milestones:Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit, 1889
- Powered Gliders
- Oral-History:Emerson W. Pugh
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- Early Uses of Radio at Sea
- Milestones:Railroad Ticketing Examining System, 1965-1971
- The Railway Power Stations of New York City
- First-Hand:Re-Establishing IEEE Members' Right to Ethical Support in Employee-Employer Professional/Ethical Disputes
- Eberhardt Rechtin
- Milestones:Early Developments in Remote-Control, 1901
- Judith A. Resnik
- Edwin W. Rice, Jr.
- Milestones:Richmond Union Passenger Railway, 1888
- Oral-History:Harold Rosen
- Oral-History:Paul Rosen
- Oral-History:John Douglass Ryder
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- SABRE Airline Reservation System
- Oral-History:Murray Sachs
- Oral-History:Peter Sandretto
- V. Anand Sankaran
- Archives:Satellites
- Solar Power from Satellites
- The Sea and Early Electrical Technology
- Robert C. Seamans
- Ascher Shapiro
- Oral-History:Edwin Douglas Ramsay Shearman
- Yukihiro Shinohara
- Werner von Siemens
- Apparatus for generating a heading signal for a land vehicle (Patent)
- First-Hand:Signal Processing for the Lunar Module
- First-Hand:IEEE Award Recipient Series:Kailasavadivoo Sivan
- Oral-History:William Smanko
- Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel
- Space and planetary Probes
- Oral-History:Jack Spangler
- Elmer A. Sperry
- Oral-History:Cary Spitzer
- Frank J. Sprague
- Archives:Papers of Frank Julian Sprague
- Oral-History:John Staehlin
- Steamboats
- Kurt Stehling
- Oral-History:Karl Ulrich Stein
- Straphanger History: Lewis B. Stillwell's Power to Move People
- Straphanger History: Pre-Subway Transportation
- Heinz Stoewer
- Stress strain behaviour in flexible pavement
- Submarines and the War Beneath the Waves
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- Susumu Tadakuma
- Tsuneo Takahashi
- Katsuhiko Takeuchi
- Technical Tour -- Scotland
- NASA Launches Telstar
- First-Hand:The Lunar Module (LM) Full Mission Engineering Simulator (FMES)
- First-Hand:The Saga of "Astral Convertible"
- First-Hand:The Story of the Automobile Voltage Regulator
- Valerie Thomas
- Joseph T. Threston
- US Rails Adopt Standard Time
- Milestones:TIROS I Television Infrared Observation Satellite, 1960
- The RMS Titanic
- Milestones:Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train), 1964
- Claire J. Tomlin
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- Richard Trevithick
- Trireme
- Maxfield Tuttle
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Media in category "Transportation"
The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total.
- 1304-control gear in topeka.jpg 1,371 × 1,128; 228 KB
- 1314-central station in detroit.jpg 1,420 × 1,116; 270 KB
- 2051-edison phonograph cart.jpg 1,402 × 1,095; 201 KB
- 275-loran monitoring room.jpg 1,405 × 1,110; 100 KB
- 3858-ames convoy.jpg 1,267 × 898; 241 KB
- 4377-RCA photophone trucks.jpg 1,451 × 1,068; 267 KB
- Boeing 314 Clipper Eng. Panel.jpg 1,435 × 1,119; 224 KB
- Boeing 737 Next Generation Flight Deck.jpg 611 × 491; 284 KB
- Boeing 737-200 Flight Deck.jpg 1,650 × 1,275; 296 KB
- Boeing 747-200 & 400 Composite.jpg 1,413 × 1,117; 233 KB
- Boeing 767 Flight deck.jpg 1,603 × 1,184; 224 KB
- Boeing 777 Flight Deck.jpg 603 × 453; 298 KB
- Boeing Configured Vehicle Cockpit.jpg 1,409 × 1,213; 421 KB
- Boeing SST Displays.jpg 1,424 × 1,128; 196 KB
- Boeing Terminal Diagram.jpg 1,535 × 1,124; 154 KB
- Boeing VC-137B "Air Force One" 2588.jpg 640 × 454; 37 KB
- Columbia Climbs Toward Space 2732.jpg 602 × 480; 39 KB
- Explorer I Jupiter 0482.jpg 2,000 × 1,520; 292 KB
- Explorer I on Jupiter Rocket 0304.jpg 1,177 × 1,500; 213 KB
- Great Eastern 0427.jpg 1,898 × 1,500; 507 KB
- Menlo Park railway 1105.jpg 640 × 450; 83 KB
- Operation Control Goddard 0412.jpg 1,898 × 1,500; 355 KB
- Saturn Ring by Voyager 0494.jpg 2,000 × 1,574; 417 KB
- Saturns Rings Voyager 0685.jpg 2,000 × 1,574; 371 KB
- Space Shuttle Flight 0411.jpg 2,000 × 1,576; 465 KB
- Space Shuttle launch 0180.jpg 2,944 × 5,818; 2.32 MB
- Steamship Columbia Electricity 1362.jpg 618 × 480; 77 KB
- Subway in AIEE Transactions 0230.jpg 640 × 447; 43 KB
- Trains in Central RR Station NJ 1323.jpg 640 × 388; 63 KB
- Van Depoele Electric Railway 2143.jpg 640 × 466; 72 KB