In 1905 the Peugeot prize for a human-powered flight of more than 10 meters was offered. This was claimed in 1921 by a sprint bicycle champion, Gabriel Poulain, who launched to a gliding flight of ...

Dubbed Zeppelin and Cyclone, both prototypes push the boundaries of the common human-powered vehicle (HPV ... When it comes to my transportation choices I have been having a hard time reconciling ...

Sure we love our bicycles, but these alternative vehicles are putting a new spin on human-powered transport. Former bicycle-brake developer Ted Ciamillo built his biomimetic submarine (a submarine ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

The Shweeb is a monorail for human-powered vehicles ... no emission urban transport system. The Shweeb Race thru Space adventure park ride is part of the Agroventures all weather adventure ...

The theme this month is human-powered travel, so we're looking for photos of people moving through the world under their own power, using means of transportation mundane or exotic. Some examples ...

Entirely human-powered, with no motor or complex drivetrain ... also makes the disassembled bike easier to store away or transport in a truck or van between locations. Another noteworthy feature ...

Leonardo da Vinci turned his skills to many topics. The diagram shows a wing design for a human powered craft, probably an ornithopter, sketched in about 1485. The flapping mechanism seems to be ...