Giphy

TRANSPORT ON WATER

By Iraide Martin
  • 4000 BCE

    CORACLE

    CORACLE
    It was the first boat and it was made by the Egyptians from reeds.
  • 1000 BCE

    REED BOAT

    REED BOAT
    The Phoenicians and Greeks added oars to their ships.
  • 1200

    CHINESE JUNK

    CHINESE JUNK
    Chinese added a single steering oar to their large ships called 'junks'.
    Sailing ships dominated the seas until paddle steamers were invented in the late 18th century. Brunel built the first steamship made of iron in 1845: the SS Great Britain. It had a six-blade propeller instead of side paddle wheels.

  • HOVERCRAFT

    HOVERCRAFT
    The hovercraft was developed by Christopher Cockerell in the U.K.. It skims over the water on a cushion of air.
    The Jet Ski was invented in the USA by Clayton Jacobsen in 1973

  • NOWADAYS

    NOWADAYS
    Nowadays, you can move on water in a basic canoe, a sailing boat, a jet-ski or a huge ocean liner. The Queen Mary 2 is the largest ship of this kind. It can carry 2,620 passengers and 1,253 crew members.