North Carolina Transportation: A Chronology of Invention and Technology
North Carolina has a long and colorful history when viewed through the lens of transportation. From the first wagon roads through the Piedmont, steam boats navigating the Neuse River and the Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is intertwined with - and has often guided - the progress of transportation.
"Those
Big Wheels Just Keep on Turnin': Transportation" 
reprinted by permission from Tar Heel Junior Historian 29 (spring
1990), copyright North Carolina Museum of History, Division of State History
Museums, Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources.
"Technology
and Your World" reprinted by permission from Tar Heel Junior Historian
35 (spring 1996), copyright North Carolina Museum of History, Division
of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, North Carolina
Department of Cultural Resources.