The late-19th and early-20th centuries saw a revolution in transportation with the invention of the airplane and automobile. The earliest recognized use of wind power is the sailing ship; the earliest document of a ship beneath sail is that of a Nile boat dating to the 8th-millennium BCE. From prehistoric occasions, Egyptians in all probability used the facility of the annual flooding of the Nile to irrigate their lands, gradually studying to manage much of it via purposely built irrigation channels and “catch” basins. The historical Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a fancy system of canals and levees to divert water …