Timeline of transportation technology

Timeline of transportation technology

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
• 214 BC - Lingqu canal is built in China
• 200 BC - The Kongming lantern, is invented in China

Middle Ages

• 700 - Kamal invented in India or Arab Empire
• 800 - The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar
• 875 - First attempt at controlled flight by Abbas Ibn Firnas
• 1044 - Compass invented in China
• 1350 - Compass dial invented by Ibn al-Shatir

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]

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]

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-than-air aircraft (a glider)
• 1862 - Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline engine automobile
• 1868 - George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains.

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

21st century

• 2003 - Concorde made the world's last commercial passenger carrying supersonic flight

Notes

1. ^ "1679-1681 – R P Verbiest's Steam Chariot". History of the Automobile: origin to 1900. Hergé. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Auto/Pages_auto/Auto_001.html&sa=X&oi=translate. Retrieved on 2009-05-08. 
2. ^ Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} C.D. Buchanan (1958). "1". Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain. Leonard Hill. 
4. ^ The DC-3