Infrastructure/Transportation

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drawing of internet communications
What Will the Internet Bring?
Interstate 80 near Berkeley, CA.
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure
Collapsed bridge
America's Infrastructure Challenge
Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints
Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers
Harry Beck’s London Underground Railway map, designed in 1931 and released to the public in 1933.
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
A ship moves along the Bosporus through Istanbul, part of the only sea route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.
The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal
Rush hour traffic in Interstate 95 in Miami.
Finally, Too Many Cars
Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.
What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa
A Mobil gas station in 1982.
A Case for Gasoline Price Controls
Transmission tower in Tennessee in the 1940s.
Back to the Future With Thomas A. Edison
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!
Dynamiters' train in Indianapolis.
Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes
Power lines.
Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence
Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.
What the Internet Will Bring Us
The Kaiser Permanente Building after the Northridge Earthquake in 1994.
California Freeways: Still Seismically Unsafe