Speed & Velocity

Resources

animals
- Speed of Animals, InfoPlease Kid's Almanac
- snails
  - Ready, steady, escargot, BBC, 10 December 1999
  - Sidney the snail races to victory in world championships, Heidi Blake, The Telegraph, 19 July 2010
  - World Snail Racing
galileo
- Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences. Trans. Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio
- Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
planes
- concorde
  - Concorde, Air France
  - Celebrating Concorde, British Airways
  - concorde-jet.com
  - concordesst.com
trains
- inter city express (ICE)
  - ICE and ICE Sprinter, Deutsche Bahn
  - ICE high-speed train Germany, Eurail
  - The ICE/ICT Pages, Tobias Benjamin Köhler, Railfan Europe
  train à grande vitesse (TGV)
  - tgv.com
  - L'Excellence Française de la Très Grande Vitesse Ferroviaire
    Link not working, but still owned by SNCF in 2008
  - French Excellence in Very High Speed Rail Transport Programme
  - Rail Speed Record 574.8 km/h, YouTube, 3 April 2007
  - TGV Sets High-Speed Train Record: Extrêmement spectaculaire! Popular Science, 4 April 2007
- transrapid
- shinkansen
  - About the Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Company
automobiles
- data
  - DragTimes.com
    - drag racing time slip images
    - dynamometer images
  - Road & Track (Look for "Road Test Data" or "Road Test Summary".)
    - Road Test Summary May 2010
    - Road Test Summary October 2010
  - Sport Compact Car (This magazine ceased publication in 2009.)
    - Road Test Summary From the April, 2009 issue of Modified Mag
- experimental
  - Bloodhound SSC
  - JCB Dieselmax, world's fastest diesel, 563.418 km/h
  - North American Eagle
  - Spirit of America, Website vanished in 2008
  - Thrust SSC (Supersonic Car)
track & field
- results
  - International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)
  - International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- research
  - Athletics: Momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics? Andrew J. Tatem, Carlos A. Guerra, Peter M. Atkinson & Simon I. Hay. Nature 431, 525 (30 September 2004).
  - Will women outpace men in 2156? Helen Pearson, news @ nature.com (29 September 2004)
miscellaneous
- Faster Than Sound, Nova
- Ken Warby: The World's Fastest Man on Water, Website vanished in 2010
- Mouse Velocity Experiment, Brian Jones
- Voyager Mission Operations Status Report, NASA
- World Pro Speed Ski Racing Organization

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