Web Quest: Land Transportation

  • Aug 1, 1400

    First Vechiles

    First Vechiles
    The first road vehicles date back as far as 3000 B.C. These were two-wheeled carts, with the wheels curved from large stone into rough disks shape. They were commonly used by the Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks serving as simple wagons to carry goods and people to chariots used for war, races, and processions . They were commonly used by the Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks serving as simple wagons to carry goods and people to chariots used for war, races, and processions .
  • first submarine

     first submarine
    The first successful submarine was built in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James I of England - it may have been based on Bourne's design. It was propelled by oars and is thought to have incorporated floats with tubes to allow air down to the rowers.The USS Alligator, the fourth United States Navy ship of that name, is the first known U.S. Navy submarine, and was active during the American Civil War. The first American submarine, built in the Revolutionary War
  • first public bus

     first public bus
    Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus -A horse-bus or horse-drawn omnibus is a large, enclosed and sprung horse-drawn vehicle used for passenger transport before the introduction of motor vehicles. It was mainly used in the late 19th century in both the United States and Europe, and was one of the most common means of transportation in cities. In the main age of horse buses, many of them were double-decker buses. On the upper deck, which was uncovered, the longitudinal benches were arranged
  • First practical steamboat

    First practical steamboat
    First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat. He did not invent the steamboat - as early as 1787, American John Fitch had sailed a steamboat on the Delaware River. Fulton achieved his place in history by producing the first commercially.Early attempts at powering a boat by steam were made by the French inventor Denis Papin and the English inventor Thomas Newcomen. Papin invented the steam digester (a type osuccessful steamboat.
  • 4 wheeled carraiges

    4 wheeled carraiges
    the 12th century that four-wheeled horse drawn carriages were developed and operated but it was only the
    rich and the privileged were able to afford such luxury.A horse-drawn vehicle is a mechanized piece of equipment pulled by one horse or by a team of horses. These vehicles typically had two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers and/or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport.
  • Trains

    Trains
    Towards the second half of the 19th century the development of trains as a majority form of transportation of both people and goods were used throughout United States . Railroad services were able to provide service from most major cities to the most isolated country sites and farms. However, it was until after World War I, that car, buses, trucks came into use and exceeded the importance railroads services.