Lesson: Transportation for People and American Attitudes

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Lesson 2 of "Transportation Systems"

Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles, California, 1956

Tesla Car at SpaceX Facility, El Segundo, California, 2008

Advertising Postcard for Pan American Airlines, circa 1970, "The Plane with All the Room in the World"

Man Seated in a Buggy, circa 1890

1984 Solar-Powered Car "Phoenix"

1891 Abbot Downing Concord Coach

Van Cleve Bicycle, Made by the Wright Brothers circa 1896

1914 Ford Model T Touring Car, Given to John Burroughs by Henry Ford - 4

Wreckage of a Chrysler Airflow Car at the Accident Scene, 1934

1922 Detroit Electric Coupe

Jones Horse-Drawn Streetcar, circa 1875

Stanford Ovshinsky's Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Prius Car, 2009

Stanford Ovshinsky at United Solar Ovonic Facility, Auburn Hills, Michigan, 2009

Mack Model CL Buses Loading Passengers at a Downtown Intersection, Toledo, Ohio, 1935

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Passenger Coach Replica

1896 Riker Electric Tricycle

Keywords	Transporation interstate highways travel flight horse and carriage automobile
Themes	Mobility

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