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Open today 4 PM - 11 PM

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Open today 4 PM - 11 PM

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Digital Exhibitions

Ribbons Across the Land

Building the U.S. Interstate Highway System

Lecture Videos

September 22, 2016

“Rust Never Sleeps: Road Trip in Search of Solutions to America’s Infrastructure Crisis”

Dan McNichol, Author and Journalist


00. Introduction 01. Canals, Rivers, and Railroads 02. The Good Roads Movement 03. U.S. Army Transcontinental Convoy 04. The Reichsautobahn 05. Eisenhower's Push for the Interstates 06. Building the Highways 07. Bibliography 08. Lecture Videos

February 21, 2019

“The Missouri Hyperloop: 2019 Path Forward and Coalition Updates”


November 3, 2016

“The Future is Now: Self-driving Vehicles Are a Reality”
Maarten Sierhuis is Director of the Nissan Research Center


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Kansas City, Missouri
64110-2498
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