A feast of weird and wonderful facts about transport.
The first air passengers were a sheep, a duck and a cock, who sailed up in a hot air balloon, watched by the King of France.
In 1838 the fastest journey across the Atlantic (by steamship) took 15 days. Now Concorde can fly the distance in 3 hours.
An American inventor has designed a bike with 54 speeds, 5 computers, a security system, a speech synthesizer, a telephone, and a microfiche file.
