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Transport

Shillibeer
also designed
Robert the unsuccessful
funeral omnibus,
Goddard GEORGE SHILLIBEER which combined a
DEVELOPED ROCKET COACH TRAVEL ENTREPRENEUR passenger vehicle
TECHNOLOGY with a hearse
Goddard was a transport Although he was not the creator of the coach,
pioneer way ahead of Shillibeer’s name became connected with coach
his time. In 1926, he travel after he pioneered the omnibus service. Starting
launched the first liquid- in Paris, Shillibeer launched his design for a horse-drawn
fuelled rocket and is coach designed for transporting people. He then developed
credited with developing
virtually the entirety of this into a service for the fare-paying public with multiple
rocket technology. With stops. This went on to become the bus service used every day
over 200 patents for his by people all over the world. Shillibeer pioneered bus service
designs, this one man in London and Paris
developed the designs
that took vast resources
for the Germans to NRY FORD
develop in World War II.
When Goddard published OUGHT THE CAR TO THE MASSES
a book claiming rockets NASA’s Goddard d did not invent the car or the assembly
could be used to travel to Space Flight
the Moon he was widely Center is dedicated e, but he single-handedly transformed the
mocked and criticised. As omobile from a plaything of the rich to
a result Goddard kept a to the rocket mething affordable and attainable for large
low profile, but now his pioneer ts of society. Ford perfected the assembly
pioneering work has been e that helped to lower the cost and increase
recognised and earned
him the title of ‘the father efficiency of his factories. This resulted in
of modern rocketry.’ an affordable car for all Americans
known as the Model T. 10,000
Model T’s were sold in the first
also
HARRY BECK ed into year of production in 1908
and as the price continued
TUBE MAP DESIGNER orld of to drop sales soared to
with the
Beck worked as an rplane 15,500,000. Ford went on
engineering draftsman Ford paid his workers a much higher pany to become a motoring giant
salary than his competitors did
at the London whose work encouraged the
growth of suburbia and the
national highway system.
diagram now kno Charles Parsons’ original turbine
map. Before Be company still exists as a part of
designed geog the Siemens corporation
figured trave
see where to
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PORT INVES
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y modes of tr CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS
come to domi
nded roads a STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR
which helpe
s and informa Under Parsons is best known for an invention that would forever change
ds previously the rule of the face of marine transport, naval warfare and the world – the
al road from Darius I, the steam turbine. Although steamships were being used before
d a message to Parsons’ invention, it was the steam turbine that finally allowed
lometre (2,00 Persian Empire
e in ten days. expanded further steam to replace sail. Parsons’ steam turbine made plentiful and
ed trade with than it ever had cheap electricity possible and was soon being used across the
al that linked before Royal Navy as well, significantly aiding the British Empire in © Alamy; Corbis; Transport For London
Red Sea. becoming the largest in history.

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