The book Means of Transport that Changed the World is based around a list of important milestones in the development of travel and transport. From little-noticed ideas that launched a technological revolution, through successes that reached for the stars, to tragedies that ended vast projects once and for all.

As an exploration of this book will show, every ending stands at the beginning of something new. Take a ride with us on the fastest, greatest, most handsome, most controversial machines, of which it can be truly said that they moved humanity forward.