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| 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 |
History of Transportation - Inventions
History of Transportation - Related Timelines
- Early History of Flight
- Timeline of Early Airplane Engine Leading to the Jet Engine
- Timeline of Rockets
- Timeline of the Internal Combustion Engine - The Heart of the Automobile
- Timeline of Submarines
©Mary Bellis
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