SANTOS-DUMONT AND HIS "BIRD OF PREY" His recent successful flight, winning the Archdeacon prize, is a confirmation of the prophecy that man will soon fly at will A RACING AUTOMOBILE CROSSING A FORD AT HIGH SPEED There are now in use in the United States and Europe about 200,000 automobiles of various kinds, valued at about $200,000,000 THE MOST POWERFUL FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE IN THE WORLD The 167-ton freight engine of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on its Connellsville division. Ordinary couplings will not hold the weight it is capable of hauling. It is used mainly for pushing heavy freight trains over the Alleghanies THE RIVAL OF THE RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE Steam-driven motor cars like this, gasoline motor cars, and motor cars driven by electricity generated by gasoline engines, are beginning to supersede the steam locomotive for light traffic A race on the New York Central Railroad in which the electric locomotive beat the steam locomotive a train's length in 500 yards, both starting from a standstill. This emphasizes one of the great advantages of electric traction in quick acceleration and quick stopping ROUNDING A CURVE ON THE BARMEN-ELBERFELD RAILWAY This suspended elevated road is still an experiment but is probably one of the transportation methods of the future. It has been in use in Germany for several years. It is said to be less noisy than an elevated line, and there are no flooring or ties to shut out light or collect snow. No train can jump the track, no employee can be run over, and the third rail is out of the way. It is claimed that a car with twice as many seats as a surface car can be run at twice the speed for half the cost A MONO-RAIL ROAD IN THE COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND On the ten miles of this road from Ballybunnion to Listowell, there are 40 grade- crossings. A line resembling this is projected from New York to Coney Island THE NEW YORK SUBWAY, AT THE SPRING STREET STATION The subway carried 116,200,000 passengers in 1905, 14,279,000 in one month (March, 1906), and 539,218 in one day (March 5, 1906). 7,400 cars pass Brooklyn Bridge Station in 24 hours. |