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=media type="custom" key="3138270"How did electricity change the way we moved people and things?= (under construction) What vehicles have we got out of electricity? How was electricity used for transportation besides in vehicles? What was the history of the electric car? What kins of vehcles were used before electricity?
 * because of electricity we now have cars, planes, and other motorized vehicles becasuse it takes electricity to manufacture them and use them
 * electricity changed the way that disabled people can move becasue we have electric wheelchairs.
 * subways and trains were key inventions that use electricity to help transport people
 * without electricity we would be still useing horses and other things
 * electricity is going to give us an alternative to vehicles and transportation that give off emissions that are harmfull to the environment
 * in the 19th century electricity was used mostly for street lights so people could go places at night and not be in the dark
 * First electric powered car was built in the early 1830s
 * The first electric motor was demonstrated by Anyos Jedlik of hungary in 1828. It was used for rotating parts
 * He later developed one powerful enough to use in a car
 * 1837 american Thomas Davenport made a communicator type direct curent electric motor with intention for comericial use
 * The cost of battery power was too much and he went bankrupt
 * Carts, drays, vans and wagons are vehicles that were used for transport of people and things before electricity
 * People in England used carriges. Barouches, landaus, victorias, curricles and broughams are all differen types of carriges
 * Best types of electric vehicles**

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