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By 1912, we launched liquid-fueled rockets. By 1911, we launched diesel engine driven ships.
By 1908, we drove gas engine automobiles. By 1903, we flew motor-driven airplanes and sailed in diesel engine canal boats. By 1897, we had the steam turbine and electric bicycle.ĭuring the 20th century, by 1900, we built airships. By 1862, we made gasoline engine automobiles. By 1838, we built the first transatlantic steamship. By 1825, we began using steam-powered passenger carriages. By 1821, we used steam-powered monorails. By 1820, we used steam locomotives on rails. By 1807, we used hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines in boats and road vehicles. By 1804, we built steam-powered railway locomotives and amphibious vehicles. By 1803, we ran commercial steam carriages and steamboats. By 1784, we built a steam carriage.ĭuring the 19th century, by 1801, we ran steam road locomotives. By 1783, we launched the first hot air and hydrogen balloons. By 1776, we propelled submarines by screws. By 1769, we experimented with the steam-driven artillery tractor. By 1672, we built the first steam-powered car.ĭuring the 18th century, by 1740, we invented the foot-and-hand-powered carriage. By 1662, we invented the horse-drawn bus. By 200 BC, we constructed manned kites to fly.ĭuring the middle ages in the 800s, we paved streets with tar.ĭuring the 13th century, by the late 1200s, we invented sky-flying rockets.ĭuring the 15th century, by the later 1400s, we built advanced sailing ships to cross entire oceans.ĭuring the 16th century, we began using horse-powered rails of wood and stone.ĭuring the 17th century, by 1620, we launched the first oar-propelled submarine. By 236 BC, we constructed our first elevators. By 312 BC, we built miles of paved roads. By 3100 BC, we tamed horses to assist our way. By 3500 BC, we began using wheeled carts and river boats.
And as it has done so in the distant past, it will continue to do so into the distant future.ĭuring the stone age of antiquity, we walked and ran upon the solid earth and swam and floated in dugout canoes upon the liquid rivers or seas. Transportation technology has been the key to our most powerful sociological and teleological growth. Our greatest demands and challenges have, in turn, initiated our greatest inventive feats that have taken us from where we have come to where we intend to go.
The modes of our transportation have developed alongside the expansion of our human understanding and culture. Many modes of transport have evolved and many more have gone extinct. But throughout history, we have had to slowly but surely, painstakingly evolve our means of transportation to where it is today. We expect to get there, but don’t often reflect on how, and we suppose, more than we actually know, how we move from one location to another. Today, we often take for granted our ability to get from one place to another, nearby or distant. It has ebbed and flowed, overcoming challenges to grow to ever-increasing levels of complexity and efficiency. The evolution of transportation, just like the evolution of humankind, has gone through trials and tribulations as it has evolved through time.