Timeline of transportation technology
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Timeline of transportation technology
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[edit] Antiquity
- 3500 BC - Wheeled carts are invented in Mesopotamia
- 3500 BC - River boats are invented
- 2000 BC - Ships are invented in ancient Egypt
- 2500 BC - Earliest paved roads built in Rakhigarhi (Indus Valley Civilization)
- 2400 BC - Shipyard built in Lothal (Indus Valley Civilization)
- 2000 BC - Horses are tamed and used for transport
- 2000 BC - Chariots built by Indo-Iranians
- 500 BC - Postal system developed in Achaemenid Empire (Persian Empire)
- 312 BC - One of the earliest paved roads, the Appian Way, is built; the Romans eventually built over 50,000 miles of paved Roman roads
- 200 BC - The first hot air balloon, the Kongming lantern, is invented in China
[edit] Middle Ages
- 559 AD - First attempt at flight using a kite by Yuan Huangtou
- 700 - Kamal invented in India or Arab Empire
- 700 - Lateen sails invented in the Middle East
- 800 - The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar
- 852 - Earliest parachute invented by Abbas Ibn Firnas
- 875 - First attempt at controlled flight by Abbas Ibn Firnas
- 1044 - Compass invented in China
- 1100 - Compass rose invented in Arab Empire
- 1200 - Caravel ship invented in Al-Andalus
- 1350 - Compass dial invented by Ibn al-Shatir
- 1576 - Ironclad warship built by Oda Nobunaga
[edit] 17th century
- 1633 - Lagari Hasan Çelebi makes the first attempt at flying in an artificially-powered rocket
- 1662 - Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system
- 1672 - Ferdinand Verbiest may have built what may have been the first steam powered car[1][2]
[edit] 18th century
- 1740 - Jacques de Vaucanson debuted his clockwork powered carriage
- 1769 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates his fardier à vapeur, an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor
- 1783 - Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons
- 1784 - William Murdoch built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, England[3]
[edit] 19th century
- 1801 - Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam 'road locomotive' on the road in Camborne, England[3]
- 1803 - Richard Trevithick built his 10-seater London Steam Carriage[3]
- 1804 - Richard Trevithick built a prototype steam-powered railway locomotive.
- 1804 - Oliver Evans (claimed to have) demonstrated a steam-powered amphibious vehicle.
- 1807 - Isaac de Rivas made a hydrogen gas -powered vehicle
- 1814 - George Stephenson built the first practical steam-powered railway locomotive
- 1816 - The most likely originator of the bicycle is the German, Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants.
- 1853 - Sir George Cayley built and demonstrated the first heavier-then-air aircraft (a glider)
- 1862 - Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline-engine automobile
- 1868 - George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains.
[edit] 20th century
- 1900 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successful airship
- 1903 - Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane
- 1903 - Small diesel engine tested in a canal boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff
- 1908 - Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing
- 1911 - Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine -driven ship
- 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
- December 17, 1935 - First flight of the DC-3, one the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation.[4]
- 1942 - V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometres (120 mi)
- 1947 - First supersonic flight
- 1957 - Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
- December 20, 1957 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially-successful jet airliner.
- 1961 - Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth
- February 9, 1969 - First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
- 1969 - First manned Moon landing
- 1971 - Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov
- 1976 - Concorde made the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight
- 1981 - First flight of the space shuttle
[edit] 21st century
[edit] Notes
- ^ "SA MOTORING HISTORY - TIMELINE". Government of South Australia.
- ^ Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7.
- ^ a b c C.D. Buchanan (1958). "1", Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain. Leonard Hill.
- ^ The DC-3

