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