Since the dawn of the age of the automobile, motorheads have been obsessed with using as few wheels as possible. Not satisfied with the prospect of being incompletely maimed by a motorcycle, the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The 1967 Gyro-X is a one-of-a-kind self-stabilizing two-wheeled wonder of the automotive world. Developed by aerospace engineer Tom Summers and designer Alex Tremulis, it was a fanciful approach to ...

Toy gyroscopes can do all kinds of interesting tricks. The most mysterious one, precession, seems to defy gravity. By definition, precession refers to a change in the orientation of the rotational ...

Fifty years after its debut at the 1967 International Automobile Show in New York City, the Gyro-X will re-emerge at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance as part of a class called “American Dream ...