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First Train
[http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/PenydarrenLocomotive.htm]
The first steam locomotive railway known as the Penydarren was built by Richard Trevithick. It was used to transport iron from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon, Wales. it managed to carry 10 tons of iron successfully. It once managed to carry 25 tons worth of iron. The weight of the train was originally 5 tons, this caused many of the cast iron plate rails to brake. -
First Car
[https://www.daimler.com/company/tradition/company-history/1885-1886.html]
Karl Benz invented the first car powered by a internal combustion engine. Benz decided to name the car "Benz Patent Motorwagen". The car had 3 wheels and a rear mounted engine. The vehicle contained many new inventions. It was constructed of steel tubing and wooden panels.The steel-spoked wheels and solid rubber tires were Benz's own design. -
Zeppelin LZ1
[http://www.airships.net/zeppelins]
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin began construction of his first airship, LZ-1, in June, 1898 in Southern Germany, not far from the Swiss border. The movable, floating shed allowed the ship to be positioned into the wind to enter or leave its hangar. The ship was completed in the winter of 1899 but Zeppelin decided to wait until 1900 before attempting to fly his invention. The ship was inflated with hydrogen gas in June and made its maiden flight on July 2, 1900. -
Diesel Engine Canal Boats
[http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/canals]
The steamers were very successful however they took a large amount of the cargo space was taken up with the engine, boiler and coal required for the journey, and the high number of crew required.
From 1906 FMC steamer experimented with various gas engines, and in 1912 fitted their first Bolinder (a Swedish engine) to narrow boat 'Linda'. The early Bolinder installations had no reverse gear, although this didn’t worry the boatmen. -
First Practical Plane
[https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1903/]
With their third powered airplane, they now routinely made flights of several minutes. On October 5, Wilbur made a spectacular flight in which he circled the field 30 times in 39 minutes for a total distance of 24 1/2 miles.
They would not fly again for 2 1/2 years.Instead, the Wrights turned their attention to securing their patent and finding customers for their invention. -
Diesel Ship
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Selandia]
MS Selandia was the most advanced ocean-going diesel motor ship in her time. Selandia the largest and most advanced diesel-driven ship at the time of her maiden voyage by way of Aalborg to London in January 1912. On arrival in London on 27 February at West India Docks during a coal strike and attracted attention as the first large transoceanic ship independent of coal and was visited by Winston Churchill, then Minister of Marine. -
Titanic
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/titanic]
Titanic was one of three 'Olympic Class' liners commissioned by the White Star Line to be built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Construction began on the first of these great ships, Olympic, on 16 December 1908. Work on Titanic started soon after, on 31 March 1909. It set off for its first every voyage in 1911 from Southampton to New York City. However, it met a fatal end when it crashed into an iceberg. -
Farman F.60 Goliath
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farman_F.60_Goliath]
The Goliath was initially designed in 1918 as a heavy bomber. Farman was quick to press the Goliath into service and made several publicity flights. On 8 February 1919, the Goliath flew 12 passengers from Toussus-le-Noble to RAF Kenley, near Croydon.Since non-military flying was not permitted at that date, Lucien Bossoutrot and his passengers were all ex-military pilots who wore uniform and carried mission orders for the circumstances. -
DC-3
[http://www.boeing.com/history/products/dc-3.page]
The Douglas DC-3, which made air travel popular and airline profits possible, is universally recognized as the greatest airplane of its time. The first DC-3 built was the Douglas Sleeper Transport — also known as Skysleepers by airline customers — and it was the height of luxury. Design work began in 1934 at the insistence of C.R. Smith, president of American Airlines. -
Jet Engine
[http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/inventions-and-discoveries-of-the-twentieth-century/the-jet-engine/]
The invention of the jet engine made air travel a lot faster. To this current date people are developing jet engine to be smaller and more efficient. They have even put them on different vehicles other than jets. -
USS Nautilus
[http://www.submarinemuseum.org/nautilus/index.shtml]
Construction of NAUTILUS was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission, under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover, USN. In July of 1951, Congress authorized construction of the world's first nuclear powered submarine. After nearly 18 months of construction, NAUTILUS was launched on January 21, 1954. -
Vostok 1
[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1961-012A]
Vostok 1 was the first spacecraft to carry a human, Yuri A. Gargarin, into space, occurring 25 days prior to the first U.S. suborbital flight. The spacecraft consisted of a nearly spherical cabin covered with ablative material. There were three small portholes and external radio antennas. Radios, a life support system, instrumentation, and an ejection seat were contained in the manned cabin. -
Moon Landing
[https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html]
The first manned moon landing. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the two astronauts aboard the Apollo 11 mission. -
Boeing 747
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747]
This was the first flight of the Boeing 747 which was the first commercial wide-body airliner. The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. In 1963, the US Air Force started a series of study projects on a very large strategic transport aircraft. The 747 was conceived while air travel was increasing in the 1960s. -
Personal Rapid Transit
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit]
The system connects the three Morgantown campuses of West Virginia University, as well as the downtown area.
The Morgantown system was built, starting in 1970, by a consortium led by Boeing Vertol as a government-funded experiment in personal rapid transit (PRT) systems. It had a fitful start, and entered operation in 1975, three years behind schedule and at a cost 3-4 times more than had originally been estimated. -
Concorde
[http://www.concordesst.com/]
The Concorde public hearing was held by the US Secretary of Transportation. Air France took delivery of their 2nd Concorde F-BTSC (203). British Airways took delivery of their 1st Concorde G-BOAA (206). British Airways began a London - Bahrain service using G-BOAA (206). Later on British Airways took delivery of their 2nd Concorde G-BOAC (204). In 2000 the Concorde had a fatal accident. Later in 2003, the Concorde had its last ever flight. -
Channel Tunnel
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel]
The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. On the opening date the Queen traveled through the tunnel to Calais on a Eurostar train, which stopped nose to nose with the train that carried President Mitterrand from Paris. -
The Segway
In 1999 renowned inventor Dean Kamen finds “the Company”, later to be known as Segway. In 2001 the Segway has its public debut being shown on Good Morning America. In 2001 the first pre-production Segways are made, the same year they become available to the public thanks to the website amazon.co.uk. From this date the company has been developing massively. In 2015 they launched a hands free self balancing transporter named Ninebot. -
The Fastest Maglev Train
[http://zcmaglevtrain.weebly.com/history.html]
Maglev is a mix of the word magnet and levitate, this is because the train uses magnets and doesn't touch the ground.
In 1902, the first magnetic train was invented by Alfred Zehden of Germany. In 1959, the design for the first magnetic train was created. In 1979, first magnetic train was built in Hamburg, Germany but was closed months later. In 2004, the fastest Maglev that people can ride on was created in Shanghai, China which can travel 268Mph. -
Ultra Personal Rapid Transit
[http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/]
Developed and created in Britain the UPRT is a pod like vehicle which runs on a track. The UPRT was open to the public in 2011 and is being used in one of Britain's busiest airports, Heathrow. It is used to carry the passengers and their luggage from one gate to another in a short time. -
Hyperloop
[https://hyperloop-one.com/]
The Hyperloop is basically the next generation of transport.It is a train which can travel upto 1200 Km/h which is faster than a public jet plane. They say it will be able to go from LA to San Francisco which is normally a 6 hr drive and a 8 hr train journey in only 30 minutes. Currently, they are holding competition for people to send off a proposal to them to help them decide on where they are going to build the first lot of Hyperloops. -
Autonomous car
An autonomous car is a car that doesn't need a driver. It will use sensors and motors in order to find things and steer the car. The sensors will track the lines on the road to make sure it doesn't go off the road. Also, it will use GPS which the user will manually put in to the car so it knows where to go. Ideally, if every car becomes autonomous it will lower the amount of traffic significantly as the cars will be able to talk to each other.
