so people could float.
before there were cars and roads, there were rivers and boats.
to go over the water, to go to other places/countries
Motor boats were invented in 1907.
U boats were invented in 1914 for WW1
Enrico Forlanini of Italy invented it, but Alexander Graham Bell built the first working boats
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Albert Hickman invented the Viper in 1910.
Speed boats were invented in 1885. The man responsible for inventing the first speed boat was F. W. Ofeldt.
We wouldn't have any thing that relys on boats today.
They invented boats.
Boats.
The Duck boats that are used by civilian tour groups today (and travel on land and in the water), were invented in 1942 for use in WWII. They were called DUKW boats and were popularly called Duck boats.
Circumstantial evidence (the settlement of Australia) points to boats being invented about 40,000 years ago. The oldest physical evidence of boats are logboats from 7,000 to 10,000 years ago.