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6000 BCE
THE HORSES
The horse began to be used as a means of transport in the year 6000 BC. Unfortunately, no further information can be obtained because it happened before Christ. -
5000 BCE
CHAIRS FOR HORSE RIDING
The oldest chairs preserved correspond to the 13th century. They are lined with parchment, have very high borders and a semicircular tail that extends along the sides, so that it hugs the knight who was riding in it as if straddled, with his legs straight. -
4000 BCE
THE ROADS
In ancient times, roads were made mainly of earth, grass and stone, all done manually, with the help of tools such as shovels, knives and pickaxes. Builders first marked the boundaries of the road and then covered the land with dirt and grass to smooth the path. -
3500 BCE
THE WHEEL
The oldest wheel was identified in Mesopotamia. It was used for transportation 300 years after the introduction of the pottery wheel. According to recent research, the oldest wooden wheel found so far comes from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is a wheel from the year 3200 BC. -
THE FIRST STEAM CARS
The steam automobile created by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769 is considered the first self-propelled vehicle. Cugnot, a French inventor, designed this vehicle to move heavy cannons in the Paris arsenal. -
THE FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
The first large-scale operating steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom and, on February 21, 1804, the world's first train journey took place when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train to along the tramway from Pen-y-darren foundry, near Merthyr Tydfil, to Abercynon... -
MOTOR CAR
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen was a three-wheeled car with a rear-wheel drive engine. It contained many innovations: it was constructed of steel tubing with wooden panels; The wheels, with steel rims and solid rubber, were Benz's own design. -
THE FIRST MOTOR FLIGHT
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers achieved what seemed impossible: making the first controlled, sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine. From then on the evolution of aircraft was extremely slow. -
THE FIRST ELECTRIC BUS
In early 1905, there were a few gasoline-powered buses in London. By 1907, there were almost 1,000, more than in Berlin, New York and Paris combined. Most buses were still horse-drawn, but gasoline had overtaken battery power. However, there were problems from the beginning. -
THE FIRST MISSILE IN GERMANY V2
The missile, powered by a liquid propellant rocket engine, was developed during World War II in Nazi Germany as a "revenge weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities in retaliation for Allied bombing of German cities. -
THE FIRST SHINKANSEN
The first Shinkansen trains began to circulate on October 1, 1964 at a maximum speed of 210 km/h between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka, and it took 22 years, until November 1986, for them to increase their speed to 220 km. /h. -
APOLLO 11
On July 20, 1969, the American Apollo 11 mission placed the first humans on the Moon: Commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Edwin F. Aldrin. When the Eagle module landed in the Sea of Tranquility, the live images were followed on television by some 600 million people. -
THE TESLA
The Tesla Roadster was the company's first vehicle, a completely electric sports car, a pioneer in the use of lithium-ion batteries with ranges of more than 300 kilometers per charge.