What does this race car remind you of if not the “Silver Arrow” of Hamilton and Bottas? That’s […]
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The signing of the Treaty of Versailles, on 28 June 1919, formally ended the First World War and, […]
The pursuit of aerodynamics in the early decades of the last century was a phenomenon that extended to […]
Aerodynamics
Metropolis cars, nipped in the bud.
Metropolis cars, nipped in the bud.
In the film by Fritz Lang the last two Tropfenwagen
In the famous film Metropolis by Fritz Lang, set in a very distant 2026, we witness the destruction […]
For a mechanical genius who, in order to meet the requirements of the First World War, passed from […]
Genius doesn’t always go hand in hand with a university degree. Harry A. Miller, the man who “shaped” […]
No one knows why Ricotti, after building and using his “famous” Siluro, decided to further develop the idea. […]
Speed was one of the key symbols of the Italian Futurist movement. This helps to explain why, in […]
Marc Leyat unveiled the Elicicle in 1913. He then spent the WWII years working as an aeronautical engineer, […]
Unveiled in 1913, the Elicicle had a simple and, in some ways, rational design. But the road was […]