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E volution of Transport

E volution of Transport. Druzhinin Peter. From ancient time people used horses, mules or donkeys for transportations of cargoes and people. Also they were harnessed in carts when wheel had been invented.

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E volution of Transport

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  1. Evolution of Transport Druzhinin Peter

  2. From ancient time people used horses, mules or donkeys for transportations of cargoes and people. Also they were harnessed in carts when wheel had been invented. Horse can run at about fifty-five kilometers an hour, so for many centuries the fastest and most popular means of transport was one.

  3. One of the ancient kind of transport is the sea one. Even in ancient Egypt ships were built which sailing down the Mediterranean sea and the Nile.

  4. The Spanish, theDutches, the Portuguese's had a great success in ship building in XV. They are called Caravel. People did a lot of great geographical discoveries by this ships.

  5. The hot-air balloon, which was invented by two French man, the Montgolfier brothers, was the first air transport. His first free flight was in 1783. But it had not practical using due to little load-carrying capacity and it was difficult to explorer.

  6. After the steam engine appearing over land and sea transport began to develop. The first steam locomotive was invented by English man Richard Trevithick in 1804. Due to the good weight-lifting capacity and big speed, the steam locomotive became the most important kind of transport in industrial countries. By the end of XIX the length ofthe rail ways reached million km.

  7. The first steam ship was invented by Robert Fulton . It had a race down the Hudson river. Steam ships did not depend on power of wind and it’s direction like sail ships. But people could refuse from sail ships only in XIX.

  8. In 1903 Two American brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, managed to make a short flight in their aircraft, the Flyer. It had fling 260 meters' in 59 seconds. After the first world war airplanes began to use for passenger transportations. In spite of small load – carrying capacity of airplanes, they were used for passenger transportations on the big distances in a short space of time. After inventing of the jet engine airplane can load more then 100 tons.

  9. Now last step of development of transport is the spaceship. Since the first Moon landing in 1969, technology has developed to give us the space shuttle (1981) and even the space tourist (2002). The future of transport will probably be as exciting as its past.

  10. Thank you for your attention

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