ITL World & Eram Group dedicates the 2014 Calendar to our ancestors and their significant contributions that made travel and mobility easy. We take this opportunity to pay sincere homage to some great men who through great research developed machines that stood ahead of their times and changed the way mankind conceived transport.
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The Wheel Cart is undisputedly the first invention after the wheel itself which significantly changed the perceptions about transportation. Carts have been mentioned in literature as far back as the second millennium B.C. The Indian sacred book Rig Veda states that men and women are as equal as two wheels of a cart. Hand carts pushed by humans have been used around the world. Simple variations of the first cart are being used to the present day, helping people move their loads and cargo with ease.
The next step in Travel & Mobility was obviously over water, which led to the invention of crafts that could sail. Throughout history sailing has been instrumental in the development of civilization, affording humanity greater mobility than travel over land, whether for trade, transport or warfare, and the capacity for fishing. The earliest representation of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait dating to the late 5th millennium BC.
After conquering the seas the demand was for mass transport over land and thus was born Carriages. Horse drawn chariots and carriages ('coaches') were used by the wealthy and powerful where the roads were of a high enough standard from possibly 3000 BC. In Hungary during the reign of King Matthias Corvinus in the 15th century, the wheelwrights of Kocs began to build a horse drawn vehicle with steel spring suspension. This "cart of Kocs" as the Hungarians called it soon became popular all over Europe. Stagecoaches (drawn by horses) were used for transport between cities from about 1500 in the United Kingdom until displaced by the arrival of the railways.
Man's ever ambitious nature soon prompted him to think of travelling underwater
and the first Submarine took shape. The first submersible of whose construction
we have reliable information was built in 1620 by Cornelius Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James I of England. It was created to the standards of the design outlined by English mathematician William Bourne. The first military submarine was the Turtle (1775), a hand powered acorn-shaped device designed by the American David Bushnell to accommodate a single person. It was the first verified submarine capable of independent underwater operation and movement, and the first to use screws for propulsion.
Successfully completing underwater travel man started looking towards the skies...Air Travel was not far away! The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human carrying flight technology. It is part of a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Annonay, France, the first untethered manned flight was performed by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers. A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and usually a source of heat.
After conquering the Sea and the Sky, Man returned his attention to land where
much needed attention was required in the field of automotives. The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed and most likely built by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cms long scale model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. Nicolas Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full scale, self propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769; he created a steam powered tricycle.
As development on the transportation front was gathering steam, the need for an advanced mass transport system also was being felt. Thus came into being, The Locomotive. The first successful locomotives were built by Cornish inventor
Richard Trevithick. In 1804 his unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along
the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. In 1814
George Stephenson, inspired by the early locomotives of Trevithick and Hedley
persuaded the manager of the Killingworth Colliery where he worked to allow him to build a steam powered machine. This proved to be the kick off of the Railway System which is one of the most favored modes of transport even to this day.
With the sense of balance and independent power weighing down on him, the need for a much simpler contraption caught his attention, The Bicycle. The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or Laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais. In the early 1860s, Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement took bicycle design in a new direction by adding a mechanical crank drive with pedals on an enlarged front wheel.
Man could never tie down his desire for innovations in speedy transportation.
Thus was born the Motor Car. A means of transport that could also satiate his
desire for vanity. The year 1886 is regarded the year of birth of the modern
automobile with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, by German inventor Carl Benz.
Motorized wagons soon replaced animal drafted carriages, especially after
automobiles became affordable for many people when the Ford Model T was
introduced in 1908.
By now man was being plagued by thoughts of an effective aerial transport system which paved the way for the invention with far reaching popularity and acceptance-The Airplane. Between 1867 and 1896 the German pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal developed heavier than air flight. He was the first person to make well documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. The Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier than air powered flight". By 1905, the Wright Flyer III was capable of fully controllable, stable flight for substantial periods. The Wright brothers credited Otto Lilienthal as a major inspiration for their decision to pursue manned flight.
Man could never reign in his desire for innovative transport. But now he had started thinking out of the world and was dreaming about machines which could take him away from the earth into space and also bring him back safely-The Space Shuttle was born. The Space Shuttle was the first operational orbital
spacecraft designed for reuse. It carried different payloads to low Earth orbit, provided crew rotation and supplies for the International Space Station (ISS), and performed servicing missions. The orbiter could also recover satellites and other payloads from orbit and return them to Earth.
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Wall Calendar - ITL WORLD
This is one of my favourite project. Wall Calendar for ITL World. The only brief i have got was it shoud be an utility calendar and of Two color. Adding a concept in a minimal space was challengin for me but i gave importance in finding an interesting as well as informative concept. Usually as a travel based company we first think about something related to tours, Showing famous landmarks, places etc. But i kept all these usually thinking stuffs AWAY!Stared thinking about a series concept but related to travel. Soonely i got 2,3 ideas among those i short-listed this one'The Evolution of Travel' i named it. Concept is quite serious, can be shown as a series from january to december, Highly informative too, can potray in miminum space. Collected the details from wikipedia, sorted it into 12 stages. Started working! Every aspects of the idea went well. And I cud finish the basic design in one day.
