Transportation Evolution

By amg7730
  • 2613 BCE

    First Sailing Boat

    First Sailing Boat
    Visual depictions of sailing boats have been dated as far back as 5500 BCE, discovered on painted discs from ancient Mesopotamia found in modern day Kuwait.

  • First bus

    First bus
    The first bus that it was made was called a carriage and it was the first horse-drown omnibus service and the inventor was Blaise Pascal

  • First Train

    First Train
    The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick.

  • First Elevator

    First Elevator
    Elisha Graves Otis- Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.

  • First Bike

    First Bike
    A bicycle, also called a cycle or bike, is a human-powered or motor-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.

  • First Car

    First Car
    The first car is a Three-wheeled Motorwagen and it was created by Karl Benz.

  • First Submarine

    First Submarine
    In 1896 he designed the Holland Type VI submarine, which used internal combustion engine power on the surface and electric battery power underwater. That John Philip Holland is the inventor of the first submarine.

  • First Motorcycle

    First Motorcycle
    The first internal combustion, petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen. It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt, Germany in 1885.

  • First School Bus

    First School Bus
    In fact, they've been around since before cars were going around and have only been yellow for about half that time! The history of the school bus can be traced as far back as 1886

  • First Trolley

    First Trolley
    Others say the electric trolley car was invented by Frank J. Sprague in 1887.While he was there Edison invented the telephone and Sprague got interested in mechanics and electricity.

  • First Taxi

    First Taxi
    The Daimler Victoria—the world's first gasoline-powered taximeter-cab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897 and began operating in Stuttgart in 1897.

  • First Trailer Truck

    First Trailer Truck
    Alexander Winton, in Cleveland, Ohio invented the semi-truck in 1898 and sold his first manufactured semi-truck in 1899. Winton went into the business of “horseless carriages”

  • First Plane

    First Plane
    Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight.

  • First Snowmobile

    First Snowmobile
    Mr. White was the first to use the word "snowmobile". Early in the winter of 1922, fifteen year old J. Armand Bombardier designed a wind driven sleigh with a Model T engine.

  • First Cargo

    First Cargo
    The first shipping container was invented and patented in 1956 by an American named Malcolm Mc Lean.