Progress and technical development of transport, a board illustrating the evolution of the means of...

Progress and technical development of transport, a board illustrating the evolution of the means of transport, at the centre stage revolving around a river throwing into the sea, hauling, a train passing on a bridge, boats on the sea, a donkey, a balloon in the air, a wheelbarrow. Representation of Indians rising on the backs of elephants, palanquins, a gondola in Venice, an Italian corricolo (hitch), an English omnibus, sledding pulled by reindeer, then all kinds of hitch, tilbury, cutting, trunk (diligence) weights, carts, cab, cars and omnibus. The journey on the back of mullet and llama in the mountains, the carriages, the chairs to carry; goat or dog cars, the camels of caravans in the desert. Plate “” Les means de transport”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules Delbruck, engraving from 1860. Private collection.