Transportation Breakdowns: Learning from Bad Ideas

Introduction

Chapter 1 Push and Pull: Beach's pneumatic transit System

Chapter 2 Whoosh!: The Moving Sidewalk

Chapter 3 Liftoff!: Samuel Langley's Aerodrome

Chapter 4 The Unsinkable Sinker: The Titanic

Chapter 5 Big Balloons: The Zeppelin

Chapter 6 Floating on Air: The Aerotrain

Chapter 7 Jet-setter: The Concorde

Chapter 8 Lemon in the Sky: The Flying Pinto