1. BEFORE THE YEAR 1750
History of Transportation
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2. - 1662: BLAISE PASCAL
INVENTS THE FIRST
PUBLIC BUS - HORSE-
DRAWN, REGULAR
ROUTE,
SCHEDULE, AND FARE
SYSTEM
- 1740 JACQUES DE
VAUCANSON
DEMONSTRATES HIS
CLOCKWORK POWERED
CARRIAGE
How it all began…
- 3500 years before christ (BC):
The invention of the wheel
- 2000: BC Horses are domesticated
and used for transportation
- 181-234: The wheelbarrow is invented
- 770: Iron horseshoes improve
transportation by horse
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3. Who used which transport?
Imagine of the first
wind-driven car
Rich people Poor people
Carriage with horses Carriage with bullock
Comfotable carriage with good
seats
Uncomfortable carriaga with
hard seats and bad equipment
Could used new inventions Often walk
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. 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.
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11. 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.
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12. 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.
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13. 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.
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14. 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.
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15. Newcomen Steam engine
Blue: water
Pink: steam
Green: valve open
Red: valve closed
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16. …FOR THE HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION?
You might ask yourself:
What is the use of the steam
engine…
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17. 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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