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Historical Timeline
ofTransportatio
n
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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)