Gijs Mom, Carson fellow from October 2009 to September 2010, founder of the European Center for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) and co-founder the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), talks about “Space, Sound, Smog and the Senses: Environmental Mobility History in the Making.”
The Suez Canal is completed under French supervision and becomes one of the world’s most important waterways.
The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage.
Australia’s first passenger steam engine train connects Melbourne to its harbor.