Travel

Mariana Torrón
11C
St. Michaels School

Cars have extremely developed throughout the years. It was first invented and

perfected by a man in Germany and France in the late 1800s. On the 20th century American

took over the automobile industry. Many different cars were developed and selled worldwide.

In April 1900 Wilhelm Maybach for Daimler motoren gesellschaft, triggered the

development of a completely new automobile with a light, high- performance engine, long

wheelbase, and low center of gravity. He named the newly developed model “Mercedes”

after his daughter, who was ten at the time. The name that is worldwide best known as one of

the best automobiles at the time. It was used as a product or brand designation for the first

time in April 1900 for the new engine, and then a few months later for the new car.
 By 1909 the most integrated automobile factory in Europe, Daimler employed some

seventeen hundred workers to produce fewer than a thousand cars per year. The central

problem of automotive technology over the first decade of the twentieth century would be

reconciling the advanced design of the 1901 Mercedes with the moderate price and low

operating expenses of the old. Bicycle mechanics j. frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield,

Massachusetts, had designed the firsts successful American gasoline automobile in 1893,

then won the first American car race in 1895, and went on to make the first sale of an

American made gasoline car the next year. Throughout the time cars have been developed

and now cars are the method of transportation most used worldwide.

Country or region Motor vehicles per 1000 people

San Marino 1,309

Andorra 1,050

Liechtenstein 926

Monaco 910

New Zealand 897

United States 868

Poland 849

Iceland 840

Finland 790

Malta 786

In terms of vehicles, San Marino is the only nation in the world with more cars than it

has people, with a population of 32,000 citizens and a ratio of 1,139 vehicles/1000 people,

that comes out to a total of over 36,000 cars in the country. That has never been seen before.
Airplanes

People tried to navigate the air by imitating the birds, they built wings called

ornithopters. While some progress was made, everything changed when the Wright

brothers decided to tackle the problem of manned flight. Until the invention of the

airplanes was developed, which are known to be one of the best inventions in decades. The

concept of the airplane has only been around for two centuries. It was invented on North

Carolina by Orville and Wilbur wright. The wright brothers invented the first airplane in

1903, It was called the 1903 wright flyer, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled

heavier-than-air powered flight". They built on the works of George Cayley dating from

1799, when he set forth the concept of the modern airplane and later built and flew models

and successful passenger-carrying gliders and the work of German pioneer of human aviation

otto Lilienthal who, between 1867 and 1896, also studied heavier-than-air flight.

During the next few years, the Wright brothers further developed their

airplanes but kept a low profile about their successes in order to secure patents and

contracts for their flying machines. By 1905, their aircraft could perform complex

maneuvers and remain aloft for up to 39 minutes at a time. In 1908, they traveled

to France and made their first public flights, arousing widespread public

excitement. In 1909, the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps purchased a specially

constructed plane, and the brothers founded the Wright Company to build and

market their aircraft. Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever in 1912; Orville lived

until 1948.
Airplanes nowadays is the most efficient way of traveling. Besides helicopters, submarines,
etc. Different types of airplanes were invented all over the world.

Trains

The first train was invented by Richard Trevithick, was first invented in Britain. It’s a

very efficient way of transportation in the world. It had a very good impact on people’s lives.

The creation of train is neither a work done in one day or short period of time nor a

work done by a single person, rather it is a result of collective efforts done by many

people spanning over many generations. Pinpointing the person who created the first

example of modern trains is quite easy but dating back to find the exact people who

initially gave the basic ideas of train transport which eventually lead to the formation

of first working train is much difficult. 

 The first simple “wagonway” train that was seen dates back to the first and second

millennia BC. For the successful functioning of these trains Babyulonians, Assyrians

and Persians built roads with certain wheel-ruts which deliberately cut into rock.  This

road configuration allowed an easy transportation of wagons pulled by horses and

bulls without the need of controlling their trajectory or steering them.  

George Stephenson built on the designs of his forerunners, and produced the  locomotion

No.1, which was used on the first public steam railway in the world, between Stockton and

Darlington. He commercialised his success by creating a company which produced

locomotives for sale for both commercial and public transportation purposes. Electric trains

were first introduced in the 1880’s, following on from the successful introduction of an

electric tramline in Berlin, Germany, which was built by Werner von Siemens. Electric

powered vehicles became more feasible and more practical over the next decades, and a large

number of electric powered railways were constructed worldwide. These systems used with

overhead wires, or an electrified rail. The trains that we see today were mainly developed
based on early electric train designs or diesel powered train designs. However, inventors and

engineers continue to pioneer new designs which may revolutionise train travel in the future.