Historical Timeline

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Transportationis the movement of

people and goods from one place to another. The word transportation comes from the Latin word transportare meaning trans (across) and portare (to carry).

Historical Timeline of Transportation

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Shanks Ponyis the first form of

transportation. It is also known as human’s foot.

Wooden Sledge (7000-4000 B.C.)

Wagon(3500 B.C.)

Sailing boat(3100 B.C.)

invented by Egyptians that is made up of bundles of papyrus reeds that is tied together.

Wooden Ships(2700 B.C.)

Egyptians began using this for trade by sea.

Horses are domesticated and used for

transportation.(2000 B.C )

Wheelbarrow(181-234)

Submarine(1620)

Cornellis Drebbel invented an human oared

submersible

Bus(1662)

Blaise Pascal invented the

first public bus.

Jacques de Vaucanson

demonstrate his clockwork

power carriage. (1740)

First practical steamboat  demonstrated

by Marquis Claude Francois

de Jouffroy d'Abbans.

(1783)

The Montigolfier brothers

invented the first hot air

balloon.(1783)

Steamboat(1787)

First Car(1769)

invented byNicholas Joseph Cugnot

Modern Bicycle(1790)

Steam Powered Locomotive

(1801) invented by

Richard Trevithick

First Practical Steam Powered Railroad

Locomative(1814)

invented by George

Stephenson

Gasoline Engine Automobile

(1862)made by Jean Lenoir

First Motorcycle(1867)

Cable Car(1871)

Dirrigible(1769)

invented byFerdinand

von Zeppeline

Engined Airplane(1903)

invented by Wright brothers

Helicopter(1907)

unsuccessful design

Liquid

Propelled Rocket l(1926)

Modern Helicopter(1940)

Supersonic Jet(1947)

Hovercraft(1956)

Bullet Train(1964)

Space Shuttle launched

(1981)

Segway PT(2002)

invented by Dean Kamen

Shanghai Maglev Train

(2004)

SpaceShipOne

(2004) the first privately

funded human spaceflight

SOURCEShttp://

www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/transport

http://www.localhistories.org/transport.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_transportation_technolo

gy

By : Trisha R. Racraquin

IV-Gold(2013)