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Articles with keyword "Transportation"

Peter Cooper, 1850

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Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas

By James Williford

Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.

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The SL Puffin

By James Williford

This diminutive steamer, christened the SL Puffin, began life in 1906 as a 5-horsepower gasoline-powered launch.

The Mizpah Arch, Denver

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Mile High Station

By Pamela Carter-Birken

Denver's Union Station made the city take off.

MV Maersk Alabama cargo ship

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National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum

By James Williford

Perched in its launch aft of the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama, the small, orange vessel in which Captain Richard Phillips spent five tense days last year as the hostage of Somali pirates, loo

Pittsburgh Railways streetcar 4398

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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

By Steve Moyer

Low platforms helped passengers in getting on and off streetcars and resulted in decreased running times and fewer accidents.

Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition

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Enchanting Reality

By Benjamin Forgey

World's fairs during the Depression.