3500 BC |
Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot. |
3500 BC |
River boats are invented - ships with oars |
2000 BC |
Horses are domesticated and used for transportation. |
181-234 |
The wheelbarrow is invented. |
770 |
Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse |
1492 |
Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight |
1620 |
Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible |
1662 |
Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule, and fare system |
1740 |
Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage |
1783 |
First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat |
1783 |
The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons |
1787 |
Steamboat invented |
1769 |
First self-propelled road vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot |
1790 |
Modern bicycles invented |
1801 |
Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for roads) |
1807 |
Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design |
1807 |
First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fulton's Clermont |
1814 |
George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive |
1862 |
Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile |
1867 |
First motorcycle invented |
1868 |
George Westinghouse invents the compressed air locomotive brake - enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy |
1871 |
First cable car invented |
1885 |
Karl Benz builds the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine |
1899 |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first successful dirigible - the Zeppelin |
1903 |
The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane |
1907 |
Very first helicopter - unsuccessful design |
1908 |
Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing |
1908 |
Hydrofoil boats co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell & Casey Baldwin - boats that skimmed water |
1926 |
First liquid propelled rocket launched |
1940 |
Modern helicopters invented |
1947 |
First supersonic jet flight |
1956 |
Hovercraft invented |
1964 |
Bullet train transportation invented |
1969 |
First manned mission (Apollo) to the Moon |
1970 |
First jumbo jet |
1981 |
Space shuttle launched |
1995 |
Transport was established |