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A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is enclosed except for the...

The wreck of the Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast...

Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other...

Rosinco was a diesel-powered luxury yacht that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1928. The yacht was built in 1916 as Georgiana...

The Worcester class was a class of light cruisers used by the United States Navy, laid down in 1945 and commissioned in 1948–49. They and their contemporaries...

The Juneau-class cruisers were United States Navy light cruisers that were modified version of the Atlanta-class cruiser design. The ships had the same...

In road transportation in the United States, a special route is a road in a numbered highway system that diverts a specific segment of related traffic...

In aeronautical engineering, overall pressure ratio, or overall compression ratio, is the ratio of the stagnation pressure as measured at the front and...

Izmaylovskaya (Russian: Измайловская) is a Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. It is one of the few surface level stations of the system...

The Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Tramway operated a cable funicular tramway service on Constitution Hill in Swansea between 1898 and 1901. The Swansea...

A light railway is a railway built at lower costs and to lower standards than typical "heavy rail": it uses lighter-weight track, and may have more steep...

Ras el Ma Airfield Ras el Ma Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Morocco, located in the southeast suburbs of Ras Kebdana.[dubious...

Twenty railway station served the village of Twenty in Lincolnshire, England. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway (opened 1866), later...

Wilhelm Maybach (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪbax] ; 9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s...

The M1 is a motorway in Northern Ireland. It is the longest motorway in Northern Ireland and runs for 38 miles (61 km) from Belfast to Dungannon through...

Ayrshire Bus Owners (A1 Service) Ltd was a prominent independent co-operative bus operator in Ayrshire, Scotland. Based in Ardrossan, it provided local...

Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905: In Santa Clara, California, Daniel J. Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after...

HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the...

Pawling station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pawling, New York. Though the New York and Harlem Railroad...

Jhalawar City railway station is a small railway station in Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Its code is JLWC. It serves Jhalawar city. The station consists of a single...

China's National Highway 107 runs from Beijing to Hong Kong SAR via Wuhan. It runs to approximately 2,698 km, and, on a map, runs broadly on a straight...

A reluctance motor is a type of electric motor that induces non-permanent magnetic poles on the ferromagnetic rotor. The rotor does not have any windings...

The Ford TeamRS was Ford Motor Company's European performance car and motorsport division for Ford Racing activity. The Ford RS badge was born for rally...

A red light camera (short for red light running camera ) is a type of traffic enforcement camera that photographs a vehicle that has entered an intersection...

Illawarra Highway is a short state highway in New South Wales, Australia. It connects Wollongong to the Southern Highlands and links Princes Highway and...

Freeman Dyson proposed that trans-Neptunian objects, rather than planets, are the major potential habitat of life in space.[citation needed] Several hundred...

The Downs–Thomson paradox (named after Anthony Downs and John Michael Thomson), also known as the Pigou–Knight–Downs paradox (after Arthur Cecil Pigou...

San Pedro via Dominguez was a 25.39-mile (40.86 km) interurban transport route, part of the Pacific Electric system in Greater Los Angeles. Its termini...

Skuzzy was a sternwheeler built by Canadian Pacific Railway contractor Andrew Onderdonk at Spuzzum, British Columbia, and was launched on the Fraser River...

The Watts Line was a local line of the Pacific Electric Railway that operated between the Pacific Electric Building in Downtown Los Angeles and the Watts...

The AvonLink is a rural passenger train service in Western Australia operated by Transwa between Midland and Northam. The consideration of revitalising...

Foss Maritime (formerly Foss Launch and Tug Company), is an American tugging company. The company was founded in 1889 by Thea Foss (1857–1927) and her...

Redondo via Gardena was a line of the Pacific Electric Railway. One of two routes to Redondo Beach, this one was faster than the Redondo Beach via Playa...

The tripod mast is a type of mast used on warships from the Edwardian era onwards,[dubious – discuss] replacing the pole mast. Tripod masts are distinctive...

Dirgantara Air Service was an airline based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services, as well as charters and aerial work. Its main...

Hailun Road (simplified Chinese: 海うみ伦路; traditional Chinese: 海うみ倫りん路ろ; pinyin: Hǎilún Lù) is an interchange station between Lines 4 and 10 of the Shanghai Metro...

Manchester Liners was a cargo and passenger shipping company founded in 1898, based in Manchester, England. The line pioneered the regular passage of ocean-going...

The Dublin United Transport Company (DUTC) operated trams and buses in Dublin, Ireland until 1945. Following legislation in the Oireachtas, the Transport...

The Scaled Composites ARES is a demonstrator aircraft built by Scaled Composites. ARES is an acronym for Agile Responsive Effective Support. In 1981, U...

The Jamaica Division of the North America and West Indies Station was a sub-command of the British Royal Navy's North America and West Indies Station head-quartered...

Aeropostal Cargo de Mexico was a cargo airline based in Mexico City, Mexico, operating on-demand flights within the Americas using leased aircraft. The...

The Ottoman Railway Company, commonly referred to as the İzmir–Aydın Railway (Turkish: İzmir-Aydın Demiryolu), is the oldest railway in Anatolia and second...

Dean Moon (May 1, 1927 – June 4, 1987) was an American automobile designer. He grew up in Norwalk, California. Moon was around cars and racing from his...

The Bay-class minesweepers, also known as the Gaspé-class minesweepers, were a class of minesweepers operated by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Canadian...

A steam dummy or dummy engine, in the United States and Canada, was a steam locomotive enclosed in a wooden box structure made to resemble a passenger...

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and other allied air forces...

Aircraft marshalling is visual signalling between ground personnel and pilots on an airport, aircraft carrier or helipad. Marshalling is one-on-one visual...

Taren Point Road is a major road found in Taren Point and Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia. Taren Point Road starts from Captain Cook Bridge, Taren...

The Reine-class patrol vessel is a modified version of the Nornen-class patrol vessels. It is a Norwegian inshore patrol vessel designed for the specific...

Bus Vannin (Manx: Barroose Vannin) - styled as bus vannin - is the government-owned and operated bus service on the Isle of Man. The name was adopted in...

Teebah Airlines was a Sierra Leone registered charter airline based in Amman, Jordan, leasing its aircraft out to other airlines on demand. Its main base...

The Nourse Line was a shipping company formed by Captain James Nourse in 1861. After taking delivery of his first ship, the Ganges, in 1861, Nourse went...

First Presbyterian Day School (FPD) is a private, college-preparatory Christian day school in Macon, Georgia, United States. FPD was founded in 1970 by...

GM Components Holdings is an automotive components producer and distributor based in the United States. It is a subsidiary of General Motors. GMCH was...

The Chaplin's patent distilling apparatus with Steam pump for circulating water attached was an early design of an evaporator, a device for producing fresh...

Al-Dawood Air was a cargo airline based in Lagos, Nigeria, operating worldwide[dubious – discuss] cargo flights out of Ostend-Bruges International Airport...

The British Aircraft B.A.IV Double Eagle was a British twin-engined six-seater monoplane designed and built by the British Aircraft Manufacturing Company...

Aero Tropical, also known as Air Tropical, was an airline based in Angola. It was founded in 1996 and shut down in 1999. On 27 February 1996 at 05:40 local...

Uzundzhovo Air Base (or Haskovo Malevo Airport) used to house a fighter air regiment and after its disbandment became a squadron of the 19th Fighter Air...

The Catskill Mountain Railway (CMRy) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad, 15.73 miles (25.31 km) long, running from Catskill to Palenville in Greene...

Captain William Schaffner (September 11, 1941 – September 8, 1970) was a pilot in the United States Air Force. He disappeared, presumed dead, flying a...

Phoenix Airways is an inter-Caribbean airline based in Basseterre, Saint Kitts. The airline flies from St. Kitts to several destinations, including Aruba...

Peter Elleray (born 30 June 1958) is an English engineer and race car designer particularly known for designing the Bentley Speed 8 race car. Elleray,...

The Kreuz Kaiserberg (German: Autobahnkreuz Kaiserberg) is a spaghetti junction in the Metropolitan region Rhein-Ruhr in the German state of Northrhine-Westphalia...

The GT4 (from German: Gelenktriebwagen 4-achsig, which translates as 4-axle articulated tramcar) is an articulated tram vehicle built by Maschinenfabrik...

Dzhankoi Railway station (Russian: Джанкой, Ukrainian: Джанкой, Crimean Tatar: Canköy) is a station in Dzhankoi, one of the biggest railway stations of...

Cadence braking or stutter braking is a driving technique that involves pumping the brake pedal and is used to allow a car to both steer and brake on a...

Mehano is a Slovenian toy company from Izola, founded in 1952 as Mehanotehnika. It produces a large range of both traditional and electronic toys, as well...

Lester Anthony Beardslee (February 1, 1836 – November 10, 1903) was an officer in the United States Navy who served as the commander of the Department...

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Otter, for the otter. HMS Otter (1700) was a 4-gun ketch launched in 1700 and captured by the French...

Naya Azadpur railway station is a small railway station in Naya Azadpur which is a residential and commercial neighborhood of the North West Delhi district...

The Type A is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type formerly operated on the Hamburg U-Bahn system. They were the first type of subway cars in Hamburg...

This is a list of airports in Sicily, grouped by type and sorted by location. On the island of Sicily there are six main airports and several smaller airfields...

VR-190 (Russian: ВР-190; Vysotnaya Raketa, literally, high-altitude rocket) was the USSR's first rocket project designed to launch a human into suborbital...

The Lindbergh Beacon, an aircraft beacon atop the Los Angeles City Hall, operated nightly from April 26, 1928, until just after the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Charles Edmund Webber CB (5 September 1838 – 23 September 1904) was a British soldier, engineer and author. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Charles was the third...

Uppaluru railway station (station code:UPL), is an Indian Railways station in Nidamanuru town[dubious – discuss] of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Vijayawada–Nidadavolu...

Stainby railway station was a station in Stainby, Lincolnshire, England[dubious – discuss]. It was on a small, single-stop branch from Great Ponton which...

The Jaco class is a class of two patrol boats operated by the Timor Leste Defence Force's Naval Component. The boats were built in China to the Type 062...

Air d'Ayiti was a short-lived airline[dubious – discuss] based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was operational between 1997 and 1999[dubious – discuss]...

The Rhode Island State Navy was the first colonial or state navy established after the American Revolutionary War began in April 1775 with the Battles...

The Kreuz Hegau (German:Autobahnkreuz Hegau, Abbreviation: AK Hegau) is a Directional T interchange/Half-Cloverleaf interchange in the German state of...

The Iwami-class patrol vessel (いわみ型かた巡視じゅんし船せん, Iwami-gata-junnsi-senn) is a class of 1,000 ton-class PL type patrol vessels of the Japan Coast Guard (JCG). In...

Cay Sal Airport (ICAO: MYCS) was an airport located on Cay Sal, the Bahamas.[citation needed] The airstrip which was built there during WWII is now abandoned...

Alexander Dahl (29 November 1892 – 15 December 1978) was a German industrialist, author and balloonist. He is known for his pioneering balloon flights...

The Offenbacher Kreuz is a cloverleaf interchange in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region in the German state of Hesse. The motorway interchange...

The Venice missile launch complex was a Cold War Regulus missile firing installation "adjacent to the Venice Municipal Airport"[better source needed] on...

West Marine Ltd. was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Peel Engineering Company, which was founded by designer, inventor and engineer Cyril Cannell in the...

The Lion's Back is a sandstone ridge in Moab, Utah that used to be popular among drivers of four-wheel drive (4x4) vehicles. It has been closed to the...

John Brisbane (1735–1807) was a Royal Navy commander who rose to be Admiral of the Fleet. He was born in Largs, Renfrewshire on 24 September 1735 one of...

Pathauli railway station (station code PTLI) is a railway station located in Agra district, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It belongs to North Central...

The AN/VAS-5B(V) Driver's Vision Enhancer (DVE) is a passive thermal imaging system used to enhance a driver's viewing capabilities while operating during...

Walter Cornelius (born Voldemārs Korņejevs,[citation needed] 11 April 1924 – 23 September 1983) was a Latvian strongman, stuntman and philanthropist who...

Rayadurg Junction railway station is the primary railway station serving Rayadurg town in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The station comes under the...

Nautical wheelers refers to a ship builder that specifically works on the fabrication of hulls of ships. The technique called wheeling is used to form...

Real (Ray) C. Tanguay is the former chair and president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC). Tanguay retired from Toyota in March 2015 and...

The Kreuz Herne (German: Kreuz Herne) is a combination interchange with two cloverleaf links in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. The motorway interchange...

Loewen is a Canadian millwork manufacturer of wood window and door systems for residential and light commercial use. The company uses Douglas Fir and Mahogany...