Just before World War II, Crosley, the owner of a Cincinnati-based business empire that included radio and appliance manufacturing, broadcasting and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, began making a line of tiny, economical vehicles — transportation appliances that emphasized utility and practicality over high horsepower and flashy looks.
In other parts of the world, tiny cars are basic transportation for the masses.
If H + diffusion limitation is seen as an important factor for the author's model, protein and nucleic acid transportation through tiny tubes should be seen as a much stronger and deleterious factor.
Programs that average people might see in their own lives, such as education or transportation, are a tiny fraction of spending.
"It just gives me great personal pleasure to be able to help even in a tiny way this fantastic public transportation system," Sergey Brin, one of Google's founders, said at the news conference.
The first of the museum's three new acquisitions was the Smart Car, which was developed by Mercedes-Benz in 1998 and has since been sold in Europe as a tiny but eco-friendly means of transportation.
Although rail has always contributed a tiny proportion of value added in transportation, its share of value added continues to decline because road transport (freight and passenger) has virtually taken over all the traffic previously conveyed by rail.
Don't be afraid of using your vehicle for transportation (unless it's tiny like a Mazda Miata!).
But channeling the vast proportion of this tax's revenue to infrastructure that prioritizes fuel-based transportation, while offering only a tiny portion of it to decarbonizing the transport sector, is one step forward and several miles back.
Here is what it takes to bring one of the world's great transportation networks to its knees: a tiny electrical fire in an obscure contraption of levers and pulleys, installed nearly a century ago.
