The history of transport

  • 5000 BCE

    The creation of the wheel

    The creation of the wheel
    The wheel was invented 5,000 BC by wise men in Mesopotamia.
  • 2000 BCE

    Cart

    Cart
    This was the first application that man gave to the Wheel for his own purposes. The cart has two wheels and uses animal traction to move.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1546

    Time it took to create the carriage

  • 1546

    Carriage

    Carriage
    The first carriage that was seen in the Peninsula was in the years of 1546, as expressed by Mendes Silva in his Royal Catalog of Spain. However, Vanderkamen, historian of Don Juan de Austria, supposes that the first carriage that traveled through these kingdoms was the one brought in 1554 by Cárlos Pubes, a servant of Emperor Carlos V.
  • The steam machine

    The steam machine
    The steam machine is an external combustion engine that transforms the thermal energy of a quantity of water into mechanical energy.
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    John Fitch built the first prototype steamboat in the United States when he sailed it down the Delaware River in 1787.
  • Railway

    Railway
    The first railway that circulated in the world was the one from Stockton to Darlington (Great Britain) in 1825
  • Electric car

    Electric car
    In 1888, what is considered to be the first electric car appeared in Germany, the Flocken Elektrowagen, invented by the inventor and businessman Andreas Flocken. It had the design of a buggy, four wheels, a 0.7 kW motor, a 100 kg battery and reached 15 km/h.
  • Bus

    Bus
    The first bus in the world was a regular
    vehicle, which linked the city of Siegen
    with the towns of Netphen and Deuz.
  • Hybrid car

    Hybrid car
    In 1900, a young man, Ferdinand Porsche, barely 24 years old, created what some consider to be the first hybrid car. It had a gasoline engine that fed a dynamo, which charged electric batteries and served to start the combustion engine.
  • Sports car

    Sports car
    In 1911, at the initiative of Pomeroy, the British brand began to develop a model, the Vauxall Prince Henry, which took the name of the Prussian monarch, and which was intended to be a different vehicle.
  • Boeing 247

    Boeing 247
    It is considered the first modern aircraft designed for passengers, it could carry ten people
  • Period: to

    High speed train

    The bird was created in 1964 in Japan, and it did not arrive in Spain until 1992.
  • Period: to

    Concorde

    The aerospatiale-BAC Concorde was a supersonic passenger plane that was used between 1976 and 2003. It was discontinued due to a tragic accident and its high maintenance cost
  • SEAT Ibiza

    SEAT Ibiza
    The SEAT Ibiza was the best-selling car in Spain in 2010
  • Hennessey Venom GT

    Hennessey Venom GT
    it is currently the fastest car in the world