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History of Transportation of Year 4
History of Transportation of Year 4
Road transport
Tracks were invented to help people walk from
one place to another. After wheels were invented, a simple trolley were used to carry goods. People used animals such as horse and bulls to carry heavier goods and other people to one place to another.
Rail Travel
Bullet Trains
Sea Travel
Before the invention of roads and cars, people
use ships to travel to faraway places. Our ancestors use boats to migrate from one place to another. Before 1400, people think that the earth is flat. Explorers sail to another continent to test this theory and discovered the new world and proves that the world is round, for example: Sir Christopher Columbus discovered north america
Before 1940s, people use large ship or ocean liner to travel to faraway places. In 1912, a famous liner called Titanic, which was the biggest liner at that time, sank after it hit an iceberg.
cargoes. People also still travel using ships that are called cruise ships. The US army use ships called aircraft carriers that serve as a floating and moving army base. One of the aircraft carrier, USS is as big as
Cruise ships
Aircraft Carrier
Air Travel
The Zeppelin
Military Use
Space Travel
Space shuttle