Individual Assignment bibliography

 

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Individual Assignment :section 1

The history of transportation

The history of transportation

Humans have needed to travel from place to place and so they needed a way to travel effectively. People in the past suffered, as they faced a lot of difficulties sometimes taking weeks or months to travel from one country to another. Animals were used in transportation like horses and camels in pre-industrial times and around 3500BC humans discovered the wheel, adapted from a potter’s wheel.

In 800BC horseshoes were invented and this it improved means of transportation because it allowed horses to travel further at one stage. Animals and boats were the mainstay until 1790 when bicycles were invented and began being used. In fact, sea travel was more widespread in the early days. The In the time of the Industrial Revolution, there were many famous names who invented a lot of mechanical devices that have contributed to transportation. Jean Lenoir, for example, invented the first gasoline powered automobile in 1858 and after some years in 1967 the first powered bicycle, the motorcycle was invented.

 The first form of air planes was in 1903, invented by the Wright brothers a gasoline engine to make the first powered flight. (ELIAN Energy, 2011) After World War I the airplane became a fast way to transport people and goods over long distances.  In 1964 high speed rails in Asia and Europe began to taking passengers on long haul routes by airplane. (Wikipedia, 2012)