2006-10-20 10:13:33 · 23 answers · asked by diana n 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
also show how thge world changed since the invention of airplane?
2006-10-20 10:15:12 · update #1
Trains, steam ships or sailing ships. These were the most common form of transportation for long journeys.
How has the airplane changed the world? It has made the world a much smaller place. People can now travel from one end of the globe to the other within 24 hours. Information, merchandise and people can travel within times that were undreamed of before.
2006-10-20 10:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Canadian Ken 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this your homework? You have a lot of questions about airplanes.
People travelled by automobile, bus, horse-drawn carriage, horseback, train, foot, bicycle, and ship.
The advantage to my mind was that you didn't step into a little box on one side of the world and when it was opened you were in another part. You travelled at a more leisurely pace, and you could look at things along the way and think. So you didn't feel as if you were still back where you started when you arrived at your new destination.
You need to do your own research on speeds--there are many types of airplanes. You could find out some of the information on that from airline companies. Also there are many lengths of flights, from short hops, to transcontinental.
Good luck with your assignment, but do hunker down and do some real research.
Maggie
2006-10-20 11:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Remember that even 200 years ago, travel of even hundreds of miles was a major undertaking, full of risk and dangers. The vast majority of people would be live their entire lives within 20 miles of their birthplace.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, just before airplanes were invented (and useful for travel!) the main way to travel was by train. Railroads were growing rapidly, and were the quickest and most efficient (meaning cheap and safe) way to travel any long distance.
If you needed to go where the railroad didn't, you had to get there yourself. Hire a stagecoach, or go on horseback if you didn't have much to carry (most didn't). Before railroads, the "stage" or horse were pretty much the only ways to get around.
If you needed to travel to and from Europe, or other major journey, you took a steamship.
In between, I am forgetting about the good ol' automobile! Commercial air travel didn't really happen until after the second World War, and was only for travelers that needed to travel very quickly. While air travel went from difficult and expensive to relatively cheap and easy, the car or bus was (and still is) a nice way to travel, even cross country or thousands of miles.
2006-10-20 10:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by Polymath 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world use to be a giant place. As technology advanced from walking and canoes to riding horses and camels, people traveled more. As technology developed more, the distance between point A and point B seemed much shorter! Then came the steam boats and the trains! Talk about some fast moving pieces of equipment! The world was off and running. Eventually private transportation with an engine became available and folks were zipping from one place to the other! The car was born. All of a sudden the world became much smaller. And then low and behold along comes the plane! World travel became the norm! Now epidemics of contagious diseases were no longer located in remote small areas, but spread world wide in a hurry. Ships provided a nice way to carry diseases from one continent to another but that took such a long time! Now it could be in a days time. From that, man went to the moon! The world had became to small to contain us any longer so now we go beyond our world and spread our earthly germs not only to new continents but to new moons and planets as well.
2006-10-20 10:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by sistervoodoo2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not by boat if you were going overseas. Ship travel was 1st class, 2nd class, or 3rd class. All areas were seperated from each other. Those with the money had a glorious crossing and those with little made the best of it because they were "sailing to a new life in the Americas".
By horse and buggy.....slow, dirty, cold in winter, but compared to today's travel, relaxing!
2006-10-20 11:09:21 · answer #5 · answered by Rose 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Train, car, boat, horse, horse+carriage, donkey, foot.
Cars as means of transportation are almost the same era as airplanes.
Travel took much longer and people basically didn't travel as much. Shipping the goods also took long time.
2006-10-20 10:24:26 · answer #6 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They flew by flapping their arms, the airplane was only invented when Americans got too lazy to fly by themselves.
2006-10-20 10:31:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you're talking about long-distance travel, people traveled by rail and by ship.
Before trains were available they traveled by beasts of burden, or they walked.
2006-10-20 10:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Rochester 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prior to the advent of the airplane, people commonly traversed from one place to another via the use of positronic molecular discombobulators, which were placed conveniently on street corners, next to autonomic latte machines.
2006-10-20 10:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Trollbuster 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Boat, train, car and horse
2006-10-20 10:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by Nicole H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋