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Bugatti T13 Brescia in action, Prescott Hill Climb, Gloucestershire. Bugatti T13 Brescia in action, Prescott Hill Climb, Gloucestershire.The left front wheel of this Bugatti leaves the ground as the driver, H Moffat, negotiates a sharp bend. Bugatti Brescias were manufactured between 1914 and 1920. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Automobile History

When Were Cars Invented? The 1901 Mercedes, designed by Wilhelm Maybach for Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, deserves credit for being the first modern motorcar in all essentials. Its thirty-five-horsepower engine weighed only fourteen pounds per horsepower, and it achieved a top speed of fifty-three miles per hour. By 1909, with the most integrated automobile factory in […]

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HISTORY: Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt: Early Years A descendant of Dutch settlers who came to America in the mid-1600s, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born into humble circumstances on May 27, 1794, on Staten Island, New York. His parents were farmers and his father also made money by ferrying produce and merchandise between Staten Island and Manhattan in his two-masted […]

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Close-up of the Orient Express Train exterior. (Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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How the Orient Express Became the World’s Most Glamorous Train

Georges Nagelmackers had a dream—and he wasn’t afraid to copy Pullman to achieve it.

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The Great Subway Race of 1967

A group of whiz kids using a mainframe computer as big as an elevator staged a wild race against time under the streets of the Big Apple.

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Old motel sign along historic route 66. (Credit: FrankvandenBergh/www.istockphoto.com)

8 Things You May Not Know About Route 66

Explore the celebrated roadway, which was made obsolete by high-speed interstates and decommissioned by the federal government in 1985—although much of it remains drivable today.

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Transcontinental Motor Convoy, 1919

The Epic Road Trip That Inspired the Interstate Highway System

Get the story behind Dwight Eisenhower’s grueling, 62-day cross-country road trip that inspired the creation of the Interstate Highway System.

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2005

Terrorists attack London transit system at rush hour

European History
1885

Canada’s transcontinental railway completed

19th Century
1904

New York City subway opens

1883

Southern Pacific Railroad completes New Orleans to California route

19th Century
1955

James Dean dies in car accident

1960s
2005

Danica Patrick becomes first woman to lead Indy 500

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