We all travel sometimes—by car, public transport, or plane. But there are some means of transport we completely ignore.

Let’s crack open this book, wonderfully illustrated by Martin Sodomka, and learn how come we don’t travel in flying cars, why trains don’t ride on a single rail, or why there are no life-size remote control cars! You’re about to be flooded with infamous ideas, prototypes, and crazy attempts at coming up with something new over the course of the past two hundred years. The means of transport presented in this book may have not led to a technological revolution but did help us progress.