Routes, Rails & Runways
Ten questions on how people and goods actually move, each with the reason the route or invention mattered.
About this topic
Transport history is mostly a record of distances being cut, and the landmarks are easy to name but harder to place. This quiz covers the canals and tunnels that changed shipping and travel, the railways that opened continents, and the aircraft and conventions that followed. It also covers a few units and codes that travellers meet without explanation. The explanations concentrate on what each development saved in time or cost, which is nearly always why it was built.
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