Portrush Railway Station The link between the railways and the jaunting cars can be seen clearly in this photograph of Portrush railway station. The railways ...
John Dunlop In the late 1880s John Dunlop, the famous inventor from Belfast, made the first pneumatic tyre for his son’s bicycle. This discovery ...
Bicycles The developments made to the bicycle at the end of the 19th century encouraged manufacturers to produce large quantities of bicycles. ...
Bicycle Races The widespread use of bicycles led to the establishment of cycling clubs which organised races all over Ireland. These were popular with ...
Motor Cycle With the advance in technology and the development of simple internal combustion engines it was only a matter of time before the bicycle ...
Luxury Car For very wealthy people it was possible to purchase a luxury hand-built car imported from the continent. The photograph shows a ...
Model T Ford Some motor manufacturers believed that the application of mass production techniques could make much less expensive cars available to a ...
Gas Balloon The idea of air travel had interested many adventurers in Europe and North America at the beginning of the 20th century. Among those ...
Early Aeroplanes A number of Ulster inventors including Harry Ferguson, the man who later developed the famous Ferguson tractor, built small aeroplanes ...
Canals Canal transport had been important in Ulster since the middle of the 18th century. Although the development of railways had taken much ...
