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Timeline of transportation technology
Timeline
of
transportation
technology
3500 BC
- Wheeled carts are invented
3500 BC
- River boats are invented
2000 BC
-
Horses
are tamed and used for transport
770
-
Iron
horseshoes come into common use
1492
-
Leonardo da Vinci
describes a flying machine
1662
-
Blaise Pascal
invents a horse-drawn public
bus
which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system
1740
-
Jacques de Vaucanson
demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage
1769
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
's demonstrates his "steam wagon", arguably the first functional
automobile
1783
-
Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier
launch the first hot air balloons
1804
-
Richard Trevithick
builds a prototype steam powered
railroad
locomotive
.
Oliver Evans
demonstrates a steam powered
amphibious vehicle
.
1807
- Isaac de Rivas makes a
hydrogen
gas powered vehicle
1814
-
George Stephenson
builds the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive
1853
- Sir
George Cayley
builds and demonstrates the first heavier-than-air aircraft (a
glider
)
1862
- Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline-engine
automobile
1868
-
George Westinghouse
invents the compressed air locomotive brake
1900
-
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
builds the first successful
dirigible
1903
-
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
fly the first motor-driven
airplane
1908
-
Henry Ford
develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing
1942
-
V2
rocket
covers a distance of 200 km
1947
- First supersonic flight
1957
-
Sputnik 1
, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
1961
-
Vostok 1
, the first manned space mission, made 2 orbits around the earth.
1969
- First manned
mission to the Moon
1981
- First flight of the
space shuttle
See also
Timeline of railway history
Timeline of United States railway history