Projects Collection (page 3)

Cross-Channel on Top
A French inventor proposes an amphibious train which rides over any water that flows in its way. Think, all that money invested in the Channel Tunnel could have been saved !

Train-Passing Project
By enabling trains to pass each other on the same track, the cost of building railways could be substantially lower. So could the life-expectancy of rail travellers

Stringfellows Model

Landing Project Paris
Project for an airport on the roof of Galeries Lafayette, in the heart of Paris, whose convenience would outweigh the danger, the noise and other minor drawbacks

Goddards Moon Project
American engineer GODDARD proposes to reach the Moon by rocket ship : illustration shows the vessel approaching the crater of Plato

Launch from Airship
Aeroplanes are carried beneath an airship, to be released if the airship should be attacked by hostile aircraft

Future Street Scene
Traffic control will be tighter in the city of the future, but parking will still be a problem

Futuristic city with a range of transport options
A futuristic city with a range of transport options -- elevated tramways, suspended trolley buses and rooftop landing pads

Hensons Flying Machine
Ws Hensons flying machine never flew, but if it had, and if it had flown as far as the Pyramids, this is how it might have looked

Automated Automobile
One day your car may speed along an electric super- highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road

Fieseler Flying Wing
One of the few practicable delta-wing projects is this German Fieseler F-3 Wespe (Wasp) - very advanced for its day, but never developed into a fighting machine

Opel Rocket Plane 1929
German inventor Fritz von Opel tries out his rocket-propelled aeroplane

ADERs EOLE 1891
ADERs EOLE I The most elegant of Aders would-be flying machines, this is also the least practicable and the least successful

GUSMAOs 1709 PROJECT
GUSMAOs PROJECT The magnetically steered barque of Bartolomeo Lourenco da Gusmao flies from the tower of the Casa da India to the Terreiro de Pace, Lisbon

ADERs AVION III - 2
Ader demonstrates his steam- powered Avion III (or Eole III) at Sathory, France; though he later claims a 300m flight, the truth is it fails to leave the ground

ADERs AVION III - 1
Ader demonstrates his steam- powered Avion III (or Eole III) at Sathory, France: though he later claimed a 300m flight, the truth is it never left the ground

Edison Landing Platform
The landing platform that Thomas Alva Edison envisaged for his flying machines

Edisons Flying Canoe
Thomas Alva Edisons flying canoe, the smaller of his two projected flying machines

Edisons Flying Ship
Thomas Alva Edisons flying ship, the larger of his two projected flying machines

Langleys Model
Samuel Pierpont Langleys model performs well and promises success, but his full-size flying machine will fail his expectations

Maxim Project 1890
Hiram Maxims improved multiplane flying machine - less cumbersome than its predecessors, but still a monstrous concoction of wings, wires and huge propellers

Maxim Project 1889
Hiram Maxims first flying machine - a monster which became less ungainly in subsequent models

BOUSSONs 1900 PROJECT
BOUSSONs PROJECT The auto-aviateur of Firmin Bousson, designed to run on the ground, ascending into the air when required

PHILIPS 1892 PROJECT
PHILLIPSs PROJECT The steam-powered flying machine of Horatio Phillips (England)

Moy & Shills Project
MOY AND SHILLs PROJECT An elaborate machine with massive propellors and relatively small wings

LE BRIS 1856 PROJECT
LE BRISs PROJECT the bird-like flying device of Jean-Marie Le Bris

HENSONs 1842 PROJECT
HENSONs PROJECT William Samuel Hensons steam- powered flying machine project (England)

Persian Kings
Legendary flying machine of the ancient kings of Persia

Adjusting Early TV Set
Adjusting an early television set

Cayleys Helicopter
CAYLEYs HELICOPTER-AEROPLANE With two lateral helicopter rotors to provide lift, and two propellers for propulsion, this is an astonishingly far- sighted proposal

Mania / Fleeing
Rash speculators flee to France to escape the recriminations of those who invested in their projects

Mania / Legal Battles
The proliferation of railway projects leads to legal battles, which must be resolved by Parliamentary committees, at great cost to the shareholders who invest

Mania / Hudson as a Guy
Railway financier George Hudson, formerly known as the Railway King, is depicted as The Great Railway Guy after the collapse of his projects

Steam Tricycle Project
A far-seeing English project for a steam-powered tricycle amazes the man in the street

French Monocycle 1950
At Saint-Etienne, a French inventor drives his monocycle, sitting inside the wheel, at speeds up to 140 km/h

Electric Monorail 1909
That electricity will replace steam, and the monorail the twin tracks of conventional railways, seems an inevitable development

Futuristic train travel, Paris to Peking
This is how you will travel from Paris to Peking in the year 2000 - on a high-speed monorail travelling at intercontinental velocity !

Rocket Train Project
This is German inventor Max Valiers magnetic rail car project of 1932, but given a face-lift by the American publisher. It sounds great in principle, but

PROSSERs PROJECT 1844
Prossers idea was to run the trains on wooden rails with slanting guide-wheels

Kimball Biplane
American designer Kimballs biplane is notable for using eight propellers, though they are powered by a single motor. The plane flies, kind of, but there are problems

Purvess Dynasphere
The Dynasphere designed by Dr J A Purves of Taunton, England, makes a successful test run, achieving 48 km/h

Evelyns Plan for London
Evelyns plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire - proposing a classical grid system & a series of squares to replace the meandering mediaeval street pattern

Francesco De Lana Flight
The project of Francesco de Lana, an Italian Jesuit from Brescia, based on sound aeronautical principles though his calculations were somewhat at fault

Baird Transmitting
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD SCOTTISH INVENTOR Invented the television

Leonardo Flying Machine
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketch of a design for a flying machine

Ideal City of 1552
Plan for an Ideal City, prefiguring the city of the Sun proposed by Campanella

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