HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION
The oldest form of transport was the (1)..................... . In the 4000BC the Egyptians used them for travel and trade. Greeks, Romans and Vikings built bigger ones with sails and used them for going to war across the sea. A German inventor Baron Karl von Doris invented the first (2)..................... in 1817. It had two wheels but no pedals. It was heavy and made of wood. People built the first railways in England in the 1940s. Travelling by (3)..................... from one side of the country to another became easier and faster.
A German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz invented the first (4)..................... in 1885. Early designs were very big and expensive. An American industrialist Henry Ford changed that. He built good, smaller ones in his factories. Soon after the first car, the first (5)..................... came. Gottlieb Daimler designed the first one made of wood and iron. The first (6)..................... appeared in 1903. It was called ‘omnibus’. Later, they became very popular.
Wright Brothers invented the first (7)..................... in 1903. It was big and the flight was dangerous. Soon after that, a 23-year-old Edvard Rusjan from Slovenia became the first solo pilot.