Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and
gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that
spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer's
drawing board. Railway engines driven by horses, for example. Or maybe
the surprising number of cars, boats and trains driven by airplane
propellers. In this book you will find cars that flew, cars that floated
on water and boats that ran on roads; steam-powered airplanes, electric
submarines, railways driven by pneumatic air, aircraft with flapping
wings...and a whole lot more. If you are a person who would like to have
flown in an airship, or traveled in a train whose carriage sat on stilts
above the sea with its tracks below the water, or dreamed of riding on a
London to New York railway that took twelve days to travel the long way
around the world, or maybe just fancied fixing your bicycle to a railway
track, then this book is for you.