The Evolution of Land Transportation

  • Jan 13, 1519

    The Horse

    The Horse
    The Horse was intruduced by Spain when they were brought by the Cortez expedition and were imported by Spanish homesteaders to Mexico and New Mexico.
  • Period: Jan 13, 1519 to

    Evolution of Land Transportation

  • The Bus non-motored

    First started out as a carrige in Blaise Pascal, Paris
  • The Wagon

    The Wagon
    Wagons were used to travel the prairies before the railroads and trains were even thought of they were made in 1717 introduced by German settlers.
  • The Train

    The Train
    Trains were on of the fastest ways to travel in the early 1800s the first train was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick. Richard Trevithick was an english engineer born in Cornwall.
  • The Car fueled by Hydrogen

    In 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen.
  • The Bicycle

    The Bicycle
    German Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany. The Bicycle was made in 1817 and was invented for a running machine for the Germans.
  • The Motorcycle

    The Motorcycle
    It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt, Germany in 1885
  • The First Fasoline Powered Car

    In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered automobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz. There are 41 huge car manufacturers in the U.S. alone that's not counting the small and other manufactures all around the world.
  • The Subway

    The Subway
    In 1897 Boston Built America's First Subway to Help with Congestion and… Blizzards. On September 1, 1897 Boston opened for business the first Subway in the United States.
  • The First Motor Bus

    The First Motor Bus
    A early Swedish motor bus with front wheel skis for winter operations, 1920.