Transport Evolution

By martinasanchez2023
  • 3500 BCE

    Wheel

    Wheel
    The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia, where the Sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood.
  • 2500 BCE

    Carriage

    Carriage
    The first carriages date back to ancient times. Two-wheeled animal drawn cart models that date back to the 1st a.c have been discovered in the ancient Indus valley civilizations of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro and Chanhu.
  • 1000

    Ship

    Ship
    The earliest documented ships were built by the ancient Egyptians, beginning about the year 1000. Egyptian ships were powered by many men who used oars to propel the ship through the water.

  • Hot Air Balloon

    Hot Air Balloon
    Although hot air balloons were invented in the 1709, on September 19, 1783 Pilatre De Rozier, a scientist, launched the first hot air balloon called 'Aerostat Reveillon'. The passengers were a sheep, a duck and a rooster and the balloon stayed in the air for a grand total of 15 minutes before crashing back to the ground.

  • Steam Car

    Steam Car
    The automobile designed by Karl Benz was just like a horse carriage but without the horses. It generated its own power and stood on three wheels, made from solid rubber. The rear wheels were bigger and heavier than the single front wheel.trains.

  • First Steam Locomotive

    First Steam Locomotive
    It was invented by the Englishman Richard Trevithick. It transported ten tons of iron, five wagons and seventy people between the Welsh towns of Penydarren and Abercynon (16 km) at a speend of almost 4km/h.

  • One-Man submarine

    One-Man submarine
    The first military submersible was Turtle, a hand-powered acorn-shaped device designed by the American David Bushnell to accommodate a single person.

  • Five-car hauling Steam Locomotive

    Five-car hauling Steam Locomotive
    On 21 February 1804, the world's first steam-powered railway journey took place when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.

  • Bicycle

    Bicycle
    This machine, known as the "swiftwalker," hit the road in 1817. This early bicycle had no pedals, and its frame was a wooden beam. The device had two wooden wheels with iron rims and leather-covered tires.

  • Tram

    Tram
    The world's first experimental electric tramway was built by Ukrainian inventor Fyodor Pirotsky near St Petersburg, Russian Empire, in 1875.

  • First flight

    First flight
    After many failed attempts, the youngest of the brothers, Orville, boarded the Wright Flyer and made the first flight. It only lasted 12 seconds and travelled 36 meters, but it was the precedent for the aeronautical industry that developed during the 20th century.

  • First commercial Air Transport.

    First commercial Air Transport.
    It was on October 4, 1958 and was carried out by two DeHavilland Comet IV aircraft from the English company BOAC, which covered the route between London and New York.