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Horses are domesticated and used for transportation.
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Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible
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First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat
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Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot.
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River boats are invented - ships with oars
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The wheelbarrow is invented.
