Transportation History

  • Road vehicles
    300 BCE

    Road vehicles

    300 BC road vehicles were used as transportation.
    They were often described as 2 wheeled carts with wheels curved from large stone into rough disc shapes commonly used by Sumerians, Egyptians,and Greeks. They were used to carry goods and also used to race others
  • Period: 300 BCE to

    Transportation History

  • Trains
    19 BCE

    Trains

    Towards second end of 19th century trains were in use to transport goods and people they were used in the U.S. The railroad service was used from major cities and to the most isolated countries and farms.
  • Stagecoaches
    18 BCE

    Stagecoaches

    In the 18th century licensed Stagecoaches spread to Europe,Paris, and England.then it really didn’t take long until demands extended to the U.S led to the creation of prairie schooner and conestoga wagon.They can transport things and also go across terrain and mountains.
  • 4-Wheeled horse carriages
    12 BCE

    4-Wheeled horse carriages

    Until the end of the 12th century four wheeled horse carriages were made,but it was only made for the rich and the privilege could afford this.
  • Steam boats

    Steam boats

    1769 steam boats were invented and were in use they were steam-generated powered but wasn’t enough mass development
  • Automobile

    Automobile

    1769 Nicholas Joseph Cugnot was the first one to invent the first automobile
  • Road locomotive

    Road locomotive

    In 1801, British inventor Richard Trevithick unveiled the world’s first road locomotive, called the “Puffing Devil,” and used it to six passengers a ride lift to a nearby village.
  • Gasoline powered automobiles

    Gasoline powered automobiles

    1858 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir invented internal combustion engine it was the first gasoline powered automobile
  • Motocycle

    Motocycle

    In 1867 two wheeled powered steam powered bicycle and it was the first motorcycle
  • Cars,buses,and trucks

    After WW1 cars, buses, and trucks were in use