Foto avion y portaviones antiguos

This time line about the changes transport and logistic has been through the last year of humanity.

By enr101
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Horses are domesticated

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE

    The wheel is invented in Iraq

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 3000 BCE

    The sailing boat is invented in Egypt

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Camels are domesticated

  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2800 BCE

    The Egyptians begin using wooden ships for trade by sea

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    Goods are transported by pack horse. Goods are also transported around the coast of Britain by ship.

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    Charles I allows the public to pay his messengers to carry letters. It is the beginning of the Royal Mail.

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    The first turnpike roads open. Turnpikes are privately owned and maintained but you have to pay to use them. Their name comes from an old word for a gate, pike. In towns the wealthy are carried by sedan chairs.

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    The Bridgwater Canal opens. Many more canals are dug in the late 18th and early 19th century.

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    The hot air balloon and the hydrogen balloon are invented.

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    Two men fly across the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon

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    Steamships begin crossing the English Channel

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    The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic

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    The first passenger railway opens

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    Horse drawn omnibuses run in London

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