Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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  • The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7,000-9,000 years ago,
  • a 7,000 year-old seagoing boat made from reeds and tar has been found in Kuwait
  • Boats were used between 4000BCE-3000BCE in Sumer ancient Egypt[9] and in the Indian Ocean.
  • There is evidence of camel pulled wheeled vehicles about 3000-4000 BCE
  • The earliest evidence of a wagonway, a predecessor of the railway, found so far was the 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos wagonway, which transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece since around 600 BC Wheeled vehicles pulled by men and animals ran in grooves in limestone, which provided the track element, preventing the wagons from leaving the intended route
  • Railways began reappearing in Europe after the Dark Ages. The earliest known record of a railway in Europe from this period is a stained-glass window in the Minster of Freiburg im Breisgau dating from around 1350
  • 1769 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is often credited with building the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769, by adapting an existing horse-drawn vehicle, this claim is disputed by some[citation needed], who doubt Cugnot's three-wheeler ever ran or was stable.
  • 1801 Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle, although it was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and would have been of little practical use.
  • 1817 push bikes draisines, or hobby horses were the first human means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, the draisine (or Laufmaschine, "running machine"), invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais, is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle (and motorcycle). It was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817.[20]
  • 1885 Otto Lilienthal began experimental gliding, and achieved the first sustained, controlled, reproducible flights.
  • 1929 Opel RAK.1 rocket glider

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