1818 was an extraordinary year in the history of humankind, a year in which the wheel was almost re-invented. After millions of years of evolution, the Homo-sapiens, for the first time and, after countless technological efforts, has been finally declared as the most efficient creature in the animal kingdom, minimum energy consumption for a given distance, voting out the Condor from top of the list. 160 years into the first industrial age, Not even In the realm of super-sophisticated machines could found a worthy competitor in the form of air, sea or land means of transportation.