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Land Travel Timeline

Wheeled carts first used. 3500 B.C.
2000 B.C. Horses are tamed and used for transportation
First steam powered land vehicle designed.       1769 B.C.
1801 Richard Trevithick builds a prototype steam powered railroad locomotive. 
Issac de Rivas invents the internal combustion engine.                      1807 A.D.
1818 The first documented bicycle created. 
George Stevenson “Father of Railways” locomotion ran from Darlington to Stockton carrying 450 persons at 15 mph.                                                     1822 A.D. 
1908 A.D. Henry Ford develops the assembly line method. 
Garrett Morgan invented the traffic light.                                          1923 A. D. 
1930 A.D. Most U.S. families have their own vehicle.