Timeline by ANTHONY MIDDLETON

History of our transportation

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Transportation is a way of movement of human beings and goods from one place to another. The use of transportation depends upon our need to move things from place of their availability to the place of their use. Human beings use various methods to move goods, commodities, ideas from one place to another.

Hot Air Balloon

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The hot air balloon was invented in 1783 by Joeseph and Stephen Montgolfier. They built a hot air balloon out of paper which Pilatre De Rozier flew over Paris. Modern-day hot air ballooning using a controlled propane burner and nylon fabric was invented in 1961 by Ed Yost at Raven Industries.

Steamboat

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The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. systems and, eventually, moved to France to work on canals.

Steamboat River Transport. Steamboats proved a popular method of commercial and passenger transportation along the Mississippi River and other inland U.S. rivers in the 19th century. Their relative speed and ability to travel against the current reduced time and expense.

bicycle

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The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s, and the descriptive title "penny farthing", used to describe an "ordinary bicycle", is a 19th-century term.A rider was said to have sat astride the machine and pushed it along using alternate feet. It is now thought that the two-wheeled célérifère never existed (though there were four-wheelers) and it was instead a misinterpretation by the well-known French journalist Louis Baudry de Saunier in 1891.

Horse car

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The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, which developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s^[^{citation needed}^], using the newly improved iron or steel rail or 'tramway'.

Fuel engine power car

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A rider was said to have sat astride the machine and pushed it along using alternate feet. It is now thought that the two-wheeled célérifère never existed (though there were four-wheelers) and it was instead a misinterpretation by the well-known French journalist Louis Baudry de Saunier in 1891.

Motorcycle

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^{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.}^{The German auto pioneer adds an internal combustion engine to a bicycle frame to make the first gasoline-driven hog. 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents what is generally considered to be the first true motorcycle.}

Bus

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became the pioneer by opening the first short motorized bus line. Those first buses were a far cry from the modern ones, offering minimal comfort to passengers.became the pioneer by opening the first short motorized bus line. Those first buses were a far cry from the modern ones, offering minimal comfort to passengers.

Electric bike b

237767 — 2024-03-01 17:48:54 UTC

On December 31, 1895, American inventor Ogden Bolton Jr. was granted what appears to be the very first patent for a battery-powered bicycle. It featured a rear wheel hub motor, with a 10-volt battery, and appears to have had a rear brake, which looks so much like the modern road bikes.Electricity was the cornerstone for clean, modern mobility. In 1895, tinkerers patented the first bicycles with electric motors.

airship

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In 1852, French engineer Henri Giffard flew the first steam-powered hydrogen-balloon airship with steering. However, a key turning point came with the creation of the Zeppelin airship in 1895, which was patented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and built by aviation pioneer David Schwarz.

airplane

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The Wright brothers' invention of the airplane, starting with the 1903 Wright Flyer, truly changed the world. Imagining what this new world would be like began as soon as the first airplanes took to the air in the early 190. The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power. The same term is also used for the first launch of rockets

Trolleybus

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Sea Plane

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A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.^[1] Seaplanes are usually divided into two categories based on their technological characteristics: floatplanes and flying boats; the latter are generally far larger and can carry far more. Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are in a subclass called amphibious aircraft, or amphibians. Seaplanes were sometimes called hydroplanes,^[2] but currently this term applies instead to motor-powered watercraft that use the technique of hydrodynamic lift to skim the surface of water when running at speed.

Hover craft

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The “hovercraft” is a word and an invention that Dr Christopher Cockerell patented in 1954 after working for Marconi, where he helped to invent radar.a swift water-transport vehicle that was not quite a boat, not quite a plane, but a hybrid of sorts: the hovercraft.

Transportation

237767 — 2024-03-01 19:08:37 UTC

Over the years us humans has made severals ways of transportation. We use transportation for delivering items and helping humans getting around for our day to day lives