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Refers to the movement of person, goods or vehicle, either thru foot, powered by combustion system or thru animal drawn from one place to another for the purpose of travel.
Traffic
Groups that migrate in an established pattern to find pasture lands for themselves and for their domestic livestock.
Nomads
Nomads, Greek “nomos” meaning…
To pasture
they wander for foods.
90% - old people living on this way
“Hunter gatherer”
Foraging Populations
they move with their families, belongings, and herds of cattle, camel, sheep, or goats through an annual cycle of pastures whose availability is determined by the alteration of hot and cold and wet and dry seasons.
Pastoral nomads
- similar itinerants in urban and complex societies who make and sell their products.
Tinkers or Gypsies
-is a yoke of wood or bamboo, used by people to carry a load
Carrying pole
- Goods are carried on the back
Back load and tumpline
“shoulder pole / milkmaids yoke”
carrying pole
old stone age in northern Europe
Sledge on rollers/runners
is a historical frame structure that was used by indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America.
Travois
First domesticated in Mesopotamia to draw war chariots while it was used in some parts of Africa for riding.
Ox
- used during Christians Eras on Siberia and northern part of the world to carry sled.
Reindeers
Considered as the first domesticated animal
Dogs
First domesticated in Middle East
Donkeys
used by the Indians to serve as weapon and used as a pack animal
Llama
- first used by Asians. It was used to draw chariots
Horse
- used in central Asia to travel in the dessert.
Camels
In the higher altitudes of the Himalayas Yak is used as a pack animal.
Yak
-used for military operations. It was invented by Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban.
Ancient Chinese kite
It was based from the flight of birds
Da Vinci’s Ornithopter
It was invented by Montgolfier brothers of France (Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier)
Montgolfier Balloon
He was the first person to try Montgolfier Balloon for 4 minutes
Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier
Thru this, first airmail was delivered in 1911 from New York to Paris
d. Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis
was invented probably in Western Asia. It began to appear in Tigris-Euphrates Valley about 3500BC and later in Crete, Egypt and China.
Wheel
were the major road builders in the ancient world with 53,000 miles of roads
Romans
he advocated the feeder road building and perfected the Macadamized road in England.
John L. Macadam
In early__________ served as the nursery of automobile builders that led to the invention of Bicycle.
19th century
- in 1817 he introduced a steerable wheel creating the “Draisienne” or “Dandy horse” or “Hobby Horse”.
Karl Von Drais
- in 1838, he made the first bicycle with pedals.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
- bicycle with open pair of wheels, one large front wheel and a small one at the rear
Star bicycle
- used by several person both wheels are equal size.
Tandem bicycle
-he invented the pneumatic tires (inflated by air).
John Boyd Dunlop
- vulcanization process of rubber
Charles Goodyear
- A Frenchman, who made possible the introduction of motorized carriages by his invention of the “INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE” in the 1860’s
Etienne Lenoir
-pioneered the manufacture of gas engines
Nicolaus Otto And Gottlieb Daimler
developed an internal combustion engine which uses liquid fuel known as “DIESEL FUEL”
Rudolf Diesel
- built the first automobile powered by ICE 1885. (Mercedes-Benz)
Karl Benz
- 1908 introduced the “MODEL T” (Ford Vehicle) which proved so popular in 1914.
Henry Ford
when does wheel began to appear?
Tigris Euphrates Valley and later in Crete,Egypt,and China
