Evolution of transport during the last 100 years

Evolution of transport Evolution of transport during the last 100 during the last 100

yearsyears

From the From the Wright brothers’s Wright brothers’s plane to the magnetic-plane to the magnetic-

levitating train.levitating train.

History of transportHistory of transport

► 1903 - First motor-driven airplane1903 - First motor-driven airplane► 1903 - Small diesel engine tested in a canal boat by 1903 - Small diesel engine tested in a canal boat by

Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic DyckhoffDyckhoff

► 1908 - Henry Ford develops the assembly line 1908 - Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturingmethod of automobile manufacturing

► 1911 – Selandia, the first ocean-going, diesel 1911 – Selandia, the first ocean-going, diesel engine -driven shipengine -driven ship

► 1926 - Frst liquid-fueled rocket1926 - Frst liquid-fueled rocket► 1935 - First flight of the DC-3, one the most 1935 - First flight of the DC-3, one the most

significant transport aircraft.significant transport aircraft.

Last innovationsLast innovations

► 1942 - V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 1942 - V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometreskilometres

► 1947 - First supersonic flight1947 - First supersonic flight► 1957 - Sputnik 1, first man-made satellite to be 1957 - Sputnik 1, first man-made satellite to be

launched into orbitlaunched into orbit► 1957 - First flight of the Boeing 7071957 - First flight of the Boeing 707► 1961 - Vostok 1, the first manned space mission1961 - Vostok 1, the first manned space mission► 1969 - First flight of the Boeing 7471969 - First flight of the Boeing 747► 1969 - First manned Moon landing1969 - First manned Moon landing► 1971 - Salyut 1, the first space station1971 - Salyut 1, the first space station► 1976 - orld's first commercial passenger-carrying 1976 - orld's first commercial passenger-carrying

supersonic flightsupersonic flight► 1981 - First flight of the space shuttle1981 - First flight of the space shuttle