Transport

Fulton's North River Steamboat, the Clermont, ran New York to Albany in 1807 under a New York state monopoly from his patent right...

Stephenson patented improved rails and locomotive designs while building Killingworth colliery engines, then the 1825 Stockton and...

Otis demonstrated his safety brake dramatically at the 1853 Crystal Palace, cutting the hoist rope above a crowd. The patent's too...

Starley's RoverSafety standardized the diamond frame, equal-sized wheels, and rear chain drive, replacing the dangerous penny-fart...

Benz's three-wheeler, patented January 1886, integrated a purpose-built gasoline engine, electric ignition, and differential. Bert...

Dunlop, a Belfast vet, patented the air tire for his son's tricycle, unaware Robert Thomson had patented a leather version in 1845...

The Wrights patented three-axis control, not lift, filing in 1903 and granted 821,393 in 1906. Glenn Curtiss's ailerons infringed ...

Goddard patented multi-stage and liquid-fuel rocketry in 1914, two years before his solid-work Smithsonian report. His 1926 Auburn...

Morgan, a Black Cleveland inventor of the gas mask Hood fame, patented a three-position traffic signal with a warning stance betwe...

RAF officer Whittle patented the turbojet in 1930, granted 1932, too poor to renew the critical years. Ohain in Germany flew indep...

Sikorsky, already famous for giant flying boats, patented and flew the VS-300 in 1939 with one main rotor and one tail rotor, the ...

Hetrick, a retired industrial engineer, patented the inflatable vehicle cushion after a brush with a roadside obstacle with his da...

Volvo's chief engineer Bohlin designed the three-point belt so a torso and pelvis share the load, filing in 1959. Volvo made the d...

As a young man Lincoln saw riverboats run aground on the Mississippi and Sangamon, and in 1849 he patented a system of inflatable ...

Engineer Christopher Cockerell tested his idea by blowing air from a vacuum cleaner motor into one tin can set inside another and ...