How humanity learned to go farther (and get there faster). Humanity's biggest milemarkers.

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Farther and faster.
Hubert Tereszkiewicz
▼ Wind, horse, and people power enforced strict speed limits for most of human history, but that never stopped us from venturing. By A.D. 400, Polynesians had  explored the Pacific so persistently  that they’d reached and settled  Hawaii—thousands of miles from points of origin in Asia. That wanderlust soon had us itching to pick up speed. Here are some important moments in our journey to go farther—and do it faster.
1522
Around the world

43K miles/5mph
Hubert Tereszkiewicz
Ferdinand Magellan started the first trip around the globe but died en route. Juan Sebastián del Cano took charge, completing the circumnavigation—which tacked on mileage to curve around continents—in 37 months.
1848
A mile a minute

26 miles/60 mph
Hubert Tereszkiewicz
Speed gains can be slow; sailboats, for one, top horses by only a mile or so per hour. But trains far outpaced every other mode of their era. “The Antelope” supposedly covered a mile in a minute chugging from Boston to Lawrence, Mass.
1903
The first flight

0.02 miles/7 mph
Hubert Tereszkiewicz
Our aerial debut didn’t get us far: The Wright Flyermanaged the pace of a brisk jog for just 12 seconds. But the trip set off a ferocious international race. By the ’20s, aviators were pushing into the 200 and 300 mph range.
1904
Speeding to triple digits (▪ ▪ ▪)

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If these vehicles are not invented we would be so doomed. Thank God these are present for this world.