Posted October 28, 2024
The Northwestern University Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: Concrete Plans: Reports and Planning Studies from the Projects of Robert Moses,...
Posted February 26, 2024
A new acquisition by the Transportation Library documents the first successful balloon flight in England. The 1784 broadside features an illustration of Vincent Lunardi’s...
Posted February 8, 2024
Before widespread automobility, the street had been a shared public space – for pedestrians, bicycles, streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles – even a space for children’s...
Posted December 18, 2023
The Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: A Visual Feast: Bob Peak’s TWA Menus, now on display in our fifth...
Posted August 9, 2023
New Acquisition Highlight: Crocheted Flower, circa 1950, made by Janie Brady Jones, widow of folk hero railroad engineer Casey Jones In the early morning...
Posted March 10, 2023
Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...
Posted January 11, 2023
The New York Edison Company was the largest provider of electricity in New York City in the 1920s, employing a fleet of several hundred...
Posted May 11, 2022
In his 1937 book The Locomotive (its esthetics), industrial designer Raymond Loewy writes that the opportunity to design a locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Posted July 23, 2021
The safety bicycle was introduced in the 1880s, an alternative to the high-wheeler, or “ordinary” bicycles that had previously dominated the market. Improvements in...