A Brief History of Human Powered Transportation
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  In the Beginning

 Boats
 Dugouts                 Rafts
 Trireme                  The Vikings
 North America
 New Concepts       Hydrofoils

 Bicycles
 The Boneshaker     The Ordinary
 The Safety              Transmissions
 Materials Concepts
 Bike by Rail            The Future?

 Aircraft
 Mythology              Kites
 Lighter than Air       Gliders
 Aerodynamics
 Human Power at Last
 Gossamer Condor and Albatross
 New Ideas

From: NASA Dryden Research Center (1980), "Testing the Gossamer Albatross."