Transportation
“Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives.”
-Robin Chase
The world that we live in now will most likely be impossible had it not been for innovations in transportation. There would not have been any great infrastructure, industrialisation, or massive production, if transportation was incompetent. Life would not have kept up with the fast changing times if there were no huge trucks, trailers, cargo ships, or large aircrafts to carry them to different places. In other words, the global society would not have experienced comfort and convenience had it not been for advancements in the transportation sector. Today, humanity has Transportation technology to thank for all the wonderful things that it currently enjoys now. Since the Stone Age the spirit of innovation and exploration has revolutionised the transportation sector. The significance of such innovation has brought their corresponding effect in the civilization, life style of people. Hence knowing the history will reveal the way how the society has adopted the technology.
Ancient Transport
The first form of transport was, of course, the human foot! However people eventually learned to use animals for transport. Donkeys and horses were probably domesticated between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. Camels were domesticated slightly later between 3,000 and 2,000 BC.
Meanwhile about 3,500 BC the wheel was invented in what is now Iraq. Its original use for cooking and spinning clay pots was simple, but the assembly of a wheeled vehicle was slightly more difficult. Its role as a wheel didn’t begin until around 4000 B.C.E., when wagon carts pulled by animals were used to move people short distances. At first wheels were made of solid pieces of wood lashed together to form a circle but after they were made with spokes.
The earliest boats were dugout canoes. People lit a fire on a big log then put it out and dug out the burned wood. About 3,100 BC the Egyptians invented the sailing
-Robin Chase
The world that we live in now will most likely be impossible had it not been for innovations in transportation. There would not have been any great infrastructure, industrialisation, or massive production, if transportation was incompetent. Life would not have kept up with the fast changing times if there were no huge trucks, trailers, cargo ships, or large aircrafts to carry them to different places. In other words, the global society would not have experienced comfort and convenience had it not been for advancements in the transportation sector. Today, humanity has Transportation technology to thank for all the wonderful things that it currently enjoys now. Since the Stone Age the spirit of innovation and exploration has revolutionised the transportation sector. The significance of such innovation has brought their corresponding effect in the civilization, life style of people. Hence knowing the history will reveal the way how the society has adopted the technology.
Ancient Transport
The first form of transport was, of course, the human foot! However people eventually learned to use animals for transport. Donkeys and horses were probably domesticated between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. Camels were domesticated slightly later between 3,000 and 2,000 BC.
Meanwhile about 3,500 BC the wheel was invented in what is now Iraq. Its original use for cooking and spinning clay pots was simple, but the assembly of a wheeled vehicle was slightly more difficult. Its role as a wheel didn’t begin until around 4000 B.C.E., when wagon carts pulled by animals were used to move people short distances. At first wheels were made of solid pieces of wood lashed together to form a circle but after they were made with spokes.
The earliest boats were dugout canoes. People lit a fire on a big log then put it out and dug out the burned wood. About 3,100 BC the Egyptians invented the sailing