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Water Transportation

Timeline

People first started transporting themselves on animal skins and logs. - Unknown

Unknown- People learned how to make rafts and canoes.

Wind is used to power boats.- around 3000 B.C.

1400s- Caravel developed by Portuguese

1716-

Hovercraft was designed by Emmanual Swedenborg

1776- First submarine used in warfare.

First successfully steam-powered ship, the Charlotte Dundas- 1803

1843- Brunel launches Great Britain, the first large iron ship

The Titanic Sank- 1912

1950s- Containers revolutionize cargo ships and ports

Jet ski was designed by Clayton Jacobson- 1963

1979- Launch of Seawise Giant also called Jahre Viking, largest supertanker ever built

Exxon Valdez; oil disaster- 1989

1998- The Grand Princess, a cruise ship with capacity for 109,000 tons of cargo and 2,600 passengers, sets sail.

Floating Cities? - Future

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People first started transporting themselves on animal skins and logs. - Unknown
	Unknown- People learned how to make rafts and canoes.
Wind is used to power boats.- around 3000 B.C.
	1400s- Caravel developed by Portuguese
1716- Hovercraft was designed by Emmanual Swedenborg
	1776- First submarine used in warfare.
First successfully steam-powered ship, the Charlotte Dundas- 1803
	1843- Brunel launches Great Britain, the first large iron ship
The Titanic Sank- 1912
	1950s- Containers revolutionize cargo ships and ports
Jet ski was designed by Clayton Jacobson- 1963
	1979- Launch of Seawise Giant also called Jahre Viking, largest supertanker ever built
Exxon Valdez; oil disaster- 1989
	1998- The Grand Princess, a cruise ship with capacity for 109,000 tons of cargo and 2,600 passengers, sets sail.
Floating Cities? - Future