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Before 1750, transportation was limited. The wheel and horse-drawn carriages were the primary modes of travel, though they were uncomfortable and slow. In the 17th century, early steam engines were invented to pump water out of mines, beginning the development of steam power that would later revolutionize transportation through locomotives. Shipping played an important role in trade, though travel for most was still rare due to high costs.

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History

Before 1750, transportation was limited. The wheel and horse-drawn carriages were the primary modes of travel, though they were uncomfortable and slow. In the 17th century, early steam engines were invented to pump water out of mines, beginning the development of steam power that would later revolutionize transportation through locomotives. Shipping played an important role in trade, though travel for most was still rare due to high costs.

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History of Transportation

Before the year 1750


How it all began…
- 3500 years before christ (BC): - 1662: Blaise Pascal
The invention of the wheel invents the first
public bus - horse-
- 2000: BC Horses are domesticated drawn, regular route,
and used for transportation
schedule, and fare
- 181-234: The wheelbarrow is invented system

- 770: Iron horseshoes improve - 1740    Jacques de


transportation by horse Vaucanson
demonstrates his
clockwork powered
carriage
Who used which transport?
Rich people Poor people

Carriage with horses Carriage with bullock

Comfotable carriage with good Uncomfortable carriaga with hard


seats seats and bad equipment
Could used new inventions Often walk

Imagine of the first


wind-driven car
How did people go to work?

- often lived in the near of the work


- walk to work

- very rich people get with the carriage to


work
How did they travel?
 Not everybody could afford to travel

 they travel with carriages,


with very bad comfort
 carriages had no
suspension

 need much time, because of slowly transport


 very bad traffic-routes
How often and why did they travel?
 they travel rare, because of the high costs

 They don´t travel for fun, but to search a


job

 some worked for a time for people with


carriages, to travel with them
Shipping and Trade
 One of the most important
means of transport in 1750
was shipping
 In 1750 shipping were mostly
used for trading, merchants
were able to export goods to
other continents.
 The ships in 1750 were not
constructed to take people and
people couldn´t afford it to go
by ship, so the seaways were
mainly used by merchants
Shipping and Trade
 People could get goods
from far away countries
and a bigger spectrum of
commodities were
buyable
 sugar, tea and many
other luxery goods were
available now
 Material prosperity were
established in big parts of
the population
Shipping and Trade
 An important way to trade was the
„triangula trade“
 Triangula trade ment the trade between
three trade partners, in this example
Africa, America and Europe.
 Manufactual goods from Europe were
exported to Africa
 From Africa slaves were brought to the
Caribbean (and from there to Nothern
America)
 In the Caribbean merchants got for
example sugar and rum for european
consumers
 Every trade partner took advantage of the
trade because every trader got goods
which were not available on the local
market
 In this time slaves were goods for western
merchants, they used to do jobs which the
local population didn´t like to do
The Steam Engine
 Thomas Savery (1650-1715)
English inventor& engineer
had to solve a problem:
When the miners digged very deep into the
ground the ground water flowed into the
mine.
The first Steam Engine
 Savery invented a machine
which raises water by the
help of the power of steam:
 A fire boil water
 The steam spread and
blows into the bowl where
the water is.
 The water goes upwards.
 The valve closes.
Miner‘s friend
 The steam condenses and creates a
vacuum.
 This vacuum sucks new water on which is
pumped out of the coal mine like explained
before.
 Savery called his invention Miner‘s Friend
and patented it 1698 for the next 14 years.
Improvement of the Steam Engine
 The problem of Savery‘ s machine was
that it only could transport water 12
metres high becaus the pressure of the
steam is limited.
 Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729)
improved the steam engine.
Newcomen Steam Engine
 This engine could transport water higher
because it uses the power of atmospheric
pressure and is so not limited.
 1712 Newcomen and John Calley built the
first steam engine to pump water out of a
water-filled coal mine.
 This was a very interesting and useful
invention for this time.
Newcomen Steam engine

 Blue: water
 Pink: steam
 Green: valve open
 Red: valve closed
You might ask yourself:
What is the use of the steam
engine…
…for the history of transportation?
Connection of the steam engine &
the history of transportation

 Later inventors used


the steam engine to
develop
 the steam- diesel-
engine
 which was used to
power a locomotive

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