[aerohead]

Looking at the University of Michigan's 'NOVUM', you can see elements of:
* the 1906 Stanley Steamer LSR 'canoe', 1928 Rumpler closed-car limousine, and 1933 Mauboussin closed-car, enclosed cabin, enclosed-wheels, with almost no ground clearance ( Jaray 1922 ), embodied in the lower body.
* NOVUM's bubble canopy borrows from Paul Jaray's 'kombination' form roof of 1922.
* And NOVUM's photovoltaic array, a boat-tailed version of Jaray's 1922 ' kombination' form double- wing root, airfoil body.
* All the connection intersections blended together with Sighard Hoerner's fillets of 1951.
New dog, old tricks.
No new theory.