Tying it all together

Posted by John Crandall Aug 15, 2006

The invention of the wheel made not only the horse and cart but locomotives like the old John Bull, and contraptions like the velocipedepossible.

The invention of the steam engine

made not only locmotives and steamships

possible, but made fortunes for transportation and railroad tycoons such as Cornelius Vanderbilt and provided work and skilled jobs to ironworks such as the West Point Foundry.

Sail technology such as the

Viking longboats and the

the caravel added to mens understanding of navigation which made the great steamships

that much more useful.

The early thinking of men such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir George Cayley leads to Otto Lilienthal, the Wright Brothers and super sonic travel