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Topic No.2 (Week # 2) : By: Pems Roel P Longaquit Instructor

This document summarizes ancient modes of transportation used by humans and animals. It discusses early forms of human transportation including walking, carrying poles, back loads, sledges on rollers and runners, and travois. It also outlines the use of domesticated animals for transportation power, including oxen, reindeer, dogs, donkeys, llamas, elephants, horses, camels, and yaks. Finally, it briefly mentions the early history of wind power in transportation through kites, gliders, airships, and airplanes.

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Topic No.2 (Week # 2) : By: Pems Roel P Longaquit Instructor

This document summarizes ancient modes of transportation used by humans and animals. It discusses early forms of human transportation including walking, carrying poles, back loads, sledges on rollers and runners, and travois. It also outlines the use of domesticated animals for transportation power, including oxen, reindeer, dogs, donkeys, llamas, elephants, horses, camels, and yaks. Finally, it briefly mentions the early history of wind power in transportation through kites, gliders, airships, and airplanes.

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Topic no.

2(week # 2)

By:

PEMS ROEL P LONGAQUIT


Instructor
History of Transportation : Ancient Modes of
Transportation

A. Manpower
.

1. Walking
-Man first used the power of his own feet in
travelling while the load is either carried or
dragged.
2. Carrying Pole

- The ends of the poles are supported by two


men which the goods suspended from the pole
in between.
3. Back Load and Tumpline
• - The goods are carried on the back.
4. Sledge on Rollers
• -The moving of heavy burdens was to place
them on sledge which rested on the series of
rollers.
5. Sledge on Runners
• - A simple sledge, probably man-drawn, was in
used at the end of the the old stone age in
Northern Europe, as evidenced by fragments
of wooden runners which survived.
6. Travois
• - A so called pole arrangement which being
dragged by a humans or animals. A platform
or crossed- beams form on which a
burden/loads are place.
B. Animal Power
“Domesticated animals were used as potential
power available for transportation.”
• 1. Ox - used as draft animals to draw a chariots
• 2. Reindeer - They were ridden with saddles
and likes dogs they draw sledges of the far
north
• 3. Dog- The first domesticated animals to
slight to heavy loads
• 4. Donkey- In a caravan used to carry goods
between the cities in southwest Asia an Egypt.
• 5. Llama-The only new world animal other
than dog capable of domestication for the use
in transport.
• 6. Elephant – These animal were formerly
used in war and used in lumber industries in
Burma and Thailand
• 7. Horse – Used to draw wheel vehicle and for riding
for sometime until the introduction of mechanices
vehicles.
• 8. Camel- Used for transport
• Two types of camel
a. Two-humped Bactrian Camel
b. One-hump dromedary of Arabia
9. Yak – A longa hair type of cattle that lives on a high altitude
on the Tibetan plateau and used as a pack animal at heights
were horses and other ordinary animals could not survive
3. Wind Power
• 1. Ancient Chinese Kite- Have seen flown as a
popular past time in the far east.
• 2. Da Vinci’s Ornithoper- which derives its
principal support and propelling from flapping
wings like those of a bird
• 3. Montgolfier Balloon- The balloons
constructed of linen and inflated with hot air
traveled 9,000 yards and remained in the air
for 20 minutes.
• 4. Siemens’ Rocket Plane
• 5. Liliental Glider
• 5. Santos Dumont’s Airship
• 7. Wright Brothers Flying Manchine
• 8. Lindbregh’s Spirit of St Louis
• Thank You
• and
• God Bless Us All!!!

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