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 ...

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 ...

At about the same time, society was recognizing the value of human-powered vehicles as sustainable transportation, and the competition added a second class of vehicles for utilitarian uses.

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 ...

Taxis may be ubiquitous in Hong Kong today, but for much of the city's urban history, human-powered transport was the only choice F rom urban Hong Kong's earliest years, hired conveyances have ...

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 ...