Transportation Timeline by Nolan Hill

By CailM
  • 4000 BCE

    4000 BC - Horses and camels are domesticated and used for transport.

    4000 BC - Horses and camels are domesticated and used for transport.
    Capable of travelling long distances and carrying heavier loads the use of animals made travel and trade easier and more efficient, leading to trails and tracks in the land. This was the first significant development in the history of transport
  • 1783 First hot air balloon launched

    1783 First hot air balloon launched
    made by Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier they were born in Ardèche France, They began to experiment with lighter-than-air flight in 1782, they used a piece of fabric billowed aloft by a fire of wool and dump straw Ever since Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, men had dreamed of flying through the air. In 1783 Étienne carried out an initial tethered attempt, which he succeeded; he repeated a second time seven days before the demonstration which was at the front of the king
  • 1801 First Steam road locomotive is run

     1801 First Steam road locomotive is run
    On February 21, 1804, British mining engineer inventor and explorer Richard Trevithick He debuted the first scale train on the railway locomotive in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil. It has been powered by a myriad of fuels, including wood, coal, oil
  • 1814 First steam powered railway train is built by George Stephenson

    1814 First steam powered railway train is built by George Stephenson
    Within a few years of his death in 1848 George Stephenson was called ‘the father of the railways that accolade has been challenged because there were other engineers involved in the development of the world’s first railway system.The Great Railway Revolution suggests that Stephenson, who had a talent for improving other people’s ideas, was not so much the father of the railways as their midwife father . He built the railway back in 1803
  • 1900 - First successful airship was built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin

    1900 - First successful airship was built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin
    His first airship was built in 1900 with a new rigid frame, serving as the prototype for many subsequent models. The zeppelin airship consisted of a row of 17 gas cells individually covered in rubberized cloth. It was about 420 feet long and 38 feet in diameter with a hydrogen-gas capacity reaching amount of 399,000 cubic feet
  • 1900ś invenftion

    1900ś invenftion
    In the 1900´s invention created technological like radio tower, new airplane, the disposable razor, a air conditioner, and the vacuum cleaner. People like the new technologica back in the 1900ś
  • Future Prediction

    Future Prediction
    I think by the year of 2070 there will be robots and flying cars. As of 2023 there has been some self driving cars and also there is the AI.
  • 1816 The Earliest bicycle is made

     1816 The Earliest bicycle is made
    The Earliest bicycle was made by a German Inventor Karl von Drais when he created a steerable, two-wheeled contraption in 1817 Known by many names, including the “velocipede,” “hobby-horse,” “draisine” and “running machine,” this early invention has made Drais widely acknowledged as the father of the bicycle. It was too dangerous for most riders