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Horse domestication took place around 4000 BCE.
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The first wheel was invented around 3500 BC and used for pottery.
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Nicolas Joseph Cugnot attempted to adapt steam engine technology to a road vehicle. The vehicle was huge and heavy and it wouldn’t start right away. It was unsafe and not very efficient. But it had high acceleration. It had a top speed of 2.5 MPH.
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Richard Trevithick made the first locomotive that ran on rails. George Stephenson turned locomotives into a form of mass transportation.
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George Stephenson designed the the Blücher an eight wagon locomotive capable of hauling 30 tons at 4 MPH.
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George Stephenson improved efficiently on his locomotive designs and built the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line.
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Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented the internal combustion engine the first gasoline powered automobile. Up until the 20th century cars were not used by a lot of people. The cars cause lots of pollution and communities have to build new roads and highways.
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Sylvester H. Roper invented the Roper Steam Velocipede two wheeled steam powered bicycle.
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Henry Ford developed the assembly line method of building cars.
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The nation’s wealth doubled and half of the American families owned cars.
