Transportation History

By hgt7715
  • canoe
    8000 BCE

    canoe

    A canoe was a smaller wooden version of a boat. A canoe is typically only used to carry one man, and is what many people used centuries ago because most people traveled on water
  • Skis
    6000 BCE

    Skis

    Skis are used for gliding down mountains, but the mountains typically have to have snow or some other slick and slippery object on them
  • Wheeled Cart
    3500 BCE

    Wheeled Cart

    A Wheeled Cart was used by people to transport goods from one place to another place far away. The Wheeled Carts used animals (typically camels) as the energy source. The camels would pull the wheeled cart
  • Galley
    1500 BCE

    Galley

    A Galley is a low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to three banks of oars, chiefly used for warfare, trade, and piracy.
  • Wheel- Barrow
    230

    Wheel- Barrow

    A wheel Barrow is like a cart, one person pushed and the other sat in a metal bowl like thing, and a wheel barrow has one wheel in the front, and two bent metal poles in the back
  • Stage-Coach

    Stage-Coach

    a large, closed horse-drawn vehicle formerly used to carry passengers and often mail along a regular route between two places.
  • Steam Locomotive

    Steam Locomotive

    steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material—usually coal, wood, or oil—to produce steam in a boiler
  • AirShip

    AirShip

    a power-driven aircraft that is kept buoyant by a body of gas (typically helium, formerly hydrogen) that is lighter than air.