For millennia on end man and goods have been moving around on foot or on horseback and wagons on land, and on sometimes sophisticated but still primitive wooden crafts on water. Difficult as it is to believe it today, even America was discovered and re-discovered relying only on the sailors’ skills and the whims of the winds. Then in the late 18ty century – barely more than 200 years ago – the steam engine changed drastically all this and all of a sudden it became much easier to reach almost everywhere in the world. No wonder then that such a big jump left its mark in most of the books of that time – and quite naturally here too.
Ludwig II king of Bavaria travels in sleigh by night, landscape with…
Gotthard railway trans-alpine Swiss railway line crossing the country from northern Switzerland…
Design of a steam-yacht and a speedboat with boiler and steam engine
Karl Drais Laufmaschine (running machine) from 1817 and the Michaux velocipede form…
SMS Arcona German steam corvette completed in 1886, combination of steam and…
Shogun state ship of 18th century, the military dictator of Japan de…
Vehicles and transport end ‘800: coach, carriage,tramway, horse-drawn,cart, illustrated table from an…
Prussian turret ship of the 19th century: turrets were normally cylindrical mounted…
The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with…
Luxurious salon of the transatlantic liner Sachsen of the North German Lloyd,…
Typographic frontispiece for a chapter about sea travels decorated by an armed…
Three beautiful vintage art deco borders with an old ocean liner, a gun…
Construction of the hull of a propeller steamer in the dockyard ready…
XVI century: Spanish soldiers move their loot on board of the ships
German armored turret of the 19th century with a rotating ring mount…
Maritime foghorn used to signal navigation hazards as rocks, coastline or other…
Vintage chapter page describing the history of the railways transport and travel…
The Santa Maria Columbus’ flagship,a medium-sized nau similar to caravel with castle,…
Antiquity: old Mediterranean harbor with fortification and ships
Typographic frontispiece for a chaper book about the principal traffic routes in…
Steam locomotive and train passage at the line Nuernberg-Fuerth inauguration , 1835…
HMS Duke of Wellington of the Royal Navy launched in 1852 powered…
Travelers sing hymns accompanied by a pianist at the Sunday fest on…
Scania market in middle ages Sweden,major important goods distribution center and fish…
Supporting net transportation in Madeira island: two indigens bear a passenger into…
CITY OF LONDON. New General Post Office telegraph department, St.Martin’s-le-Grand, 19th century
Artillery type carried on a sailing man-of-war from the Napoleonic Wars,early 19th…
Vintage illustration of the efforts to rescue a ship at the mercy…
Russian postal road in winter with snow sleighs and horseback messengers
Vertical section of the English Nasmyth Torpedo Boat, a steam powered ram…
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