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Period: 40,000 BCE to
Transportation over time
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4000 BCE
Horses and wheeled vehicles
Experts believe that domestication took place around 4000 BCE. Genetic evidence from horses, including changes in musculature and cognitive function, support this. Also around this time the wheel was invented. Archaeological records show that the first wheeled vehicles were in use around 3500 BCE. -
Steam Engines
In 1769, the Watt steam engine changed everything. Boats were among the first to take advantage of steam-generated power. In 1783 a french inventor with th name Claude de Jouffroy built the "Pyroscaphe” the world’s first steamship. Back in 1769, another Frenchman named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot attempted to adapt steam engine technology to a road vehicle the result was the invention of the first automobile. -
Locomotives
One mode of land transport powered by a steam engine that did go mainstream was the locomotive. In 1801, British inventor Richard Trevithick unveiled the world’s first road locomotive called the “Puffing Devil” and used it to give six passengers a ride to a nearby village. In 1814, George Stephenson designed the "Blücher," an eight-wagon locomotive capable of hauling 30 tons of coal uphill at a speed of four miles per hour. -
Aircrafts
Two American brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, pulled off the first official powered flight in 1903. They also created the world’s first airplane. Transporting got really popular during WWI. In 1919, passengers were able to fly internationally for the first time. -
Advancements in Transportation
Vehicles such as cars have improved a lot from when they came out. Cars like the tesla run on electricity and they can move on their own if you put it unto that mode, Cars in general have just improved with size, speed, and parts that you can equip to the car. -
Advancements in Transportation
Another Improvement has been in aircrafts. You can travel around the world in an airplane now. Also, airplanes are safer, with how big they are and how protective they are. Speed has also been increased with flying vehicles like the jet. These flying vehicles sometimes hold armory like guns, bombs, etc.… -
Advancements in Transportation
Vehicles on water like boats have improved a lot. Boats nowadays are way bigger, faster, and some of just used for entertainment purposes. Back then boats were used to transport items around the world and trade things. Now there are speed boats which go really fast, yachts which are built for more entertainment than anything else. -
Early Boats
The first mode of transportation was created to travel across water this was the boat. Those who colonized Australia roughly 60,000–40,000 years ago have been credited as the first people to cross the sea, though there is some evidence that seafaring trips were carried out as far back as 900,000 years ago. The earliest boats were simple log boats, also known as dugouts, which were made out of a tree trunk.