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This is around when the canoe was invented. With this invention, the movement of people along with goods was dramatically advanced far beyond foot.
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This was about the first time that animals were used for transportation.
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In 4000 BC, stone paved roads were introduced in Ur.
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Around this time was when the wheel was invented in Iraq.
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The steamboat was invented by John Fitch in 1787 and the first one drove on the Delaware River.
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The train greatly increased trade and encouraged industrialization in most of all countries at the time.
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1876, an Italian inventor Antonio Meucci invented the phone. The phone was a step forward for a newly improved type of transportation; the transportation of ideas.
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The gas-powered motorcycle was invented by German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1885.
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This invention exploded the most important type of transportation, people. The car also influenced how we look at engines.
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On this day, the Wright Brothers invented the first successful plane. This invention not only ushered in a new era of transportation, but also warfare.
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With this invention, a new type of transportation was dramaticly increased: the transportation of bombs.
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This invention greatly increased the military power of each country that use it. America adopted this into their own transport system after seeing how effective it was in Nazi Germany during World War II.
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The first spacecraft was made by the Russians in 1961 called Vostok 1. It made an earth orbit. There were 5 other Vostok.
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The Department of Transportation (DoT) was another improvement on how Americans move around the country. DoT regulates transportation and builds new roads to clear up traffic and make traveling faster.
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On January 1, 1968, a law was made making it illegal to have a car without a seatbelt. But in 1983, is was made illegal to ride without actually wearing it.
