Transpo ! Flashcards
(31 cards)
auto car, motor car or car
Automobile
a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting goods or
passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor.
AUTOMOBILE
The word automobile comes from the ancient Greek
word αὐτός (autós, meaning _________)?
Self
the Latin word
mobilis
(movable)
the Latin word carrus or carrum
Wheeled vehicle
the Middle English word carre
Cart
the Gaulish word karros
Gallic Chariot
________ is considered as one of the most important
mechanical inventions of all times.
The wheel
The wheel has been
used by man since the beginning of ________
civilization.
The invention of the wheel perhaps happened in
the _________?
late Neolithic age.
Invention of the potter’s wheel,
Chalcolithic (Ubaid period)
BC?
4500 BC
Chalcolithic, earliest wheeled vehicles,
“domestication of the horse”
BC?
4500-3300 BC
Earliest wheeled vehicle
Chalcolithic
Early Bronze Age
BC?
3300-2200 BC
Middle Bronze Age, invention of the
spoked wheel and the chariot
BC
2200-1550 BC
History tells us that wheel was most likely invented ________
in around ______?
Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) and 3500 BC
Age of the wheel
5500 years old
first use of the wheel for transportation was in ______? _____BC?
Mesopotamian chariots in 3200 BC
Egyptians started using wheel with
Spokes
introduced an iron rim around
the wheel in the first millennium BC.
Celtic-chariots
Types of wheels
Wooden Wheel, Wheel with spokes, wheel
is a vehicle designed for transport, using two
wheels.
Wheel cart
A _____is pulled or pushed by one or more
people.
handcart
The draught animals used for carts
horses or ponies, mules, oxen, water buffalo ,donkeys, goats, large dogs
