History of transportation

Stone age

Ancient History

5000 BC - Wheels were developed in the Indus Valley Civilization during the Mehrgarh II-VI (ceramic Neolithic)

3500 BC – Wheeled carts are invented in Mesopotamia

3500 BC – River boats are invented

3100 BC – Horses are tamed and used for transport in Botai Egypt

2000 BC – Chariots built by Indo-Iranians

6th century BC – Diolkos wagonway is built across the isthmus of Corinth.

Chariots built by Indo-Iranians

500 BC – Postal system developed in Achaemenid Empire (Persian Empire)

332 BC – First documented use of divers or submersibles, during the siege of Syracuse. Alexander the Great, according to medieval legends, used a submersible or diving bell in 332 BC, during the siege of Tyre

312 BC – One of the earliest paved roads still maintained, the Appian Way, is built; the Romans eventually built over 50,000 miles of paved Roman roads

312 BC - First Roman Aqueduct

214 BC – Lingqu Canal is built in China

236 BC – The date ascribed by Vitruvius for the first documented elevator, which he reports as having been built by Archimedes

200 BC – The Kongming lantern, is invented in China

Middle Ages

800 – The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar.

Late 9th century – Kamal invented in India.

1044 – Compass invented in China

13th century (or before) – Rocket invented in Afghanistan.

1350 – Compass dial invented by Ibn al-Shatir.

late 15th century - European sailing ships become advanced enough to reliably cross oceans.

17th Century

1620 – Cornelius Drebbel builds the world's first known submarine, which is propelled by oars (although there are earlier ideas for and depictions of submarines).

1672 – Ferdinand Verbiest may have built what may have been the first steam powered car[1][2]

1662 – Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system

18th Century

1769 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates his fardier à vapeur, an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor

1776 – First submarine to be propelled by screws, and the first military submarine to attempt an attack on a ship, Turtle, is built by David Bushnell. The attack fails to sink the HMS Eagle.

1783 – Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons

1783 – Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert (Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert) launch the first Hydrogen balloon

1784 – William Murdoch built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, England[3]

19th Century

19th Century

1801 – Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam 'road locomotive' on the road in Camborne, England[3]

1803 – William Symington's Charlotte Dundas, generally considered to be the world's first practical steamboat, makes her first voyage.

1804 – Oliver Evans (claimed to have) demonstrated a steam-powered amphibious vehicle.

1807 – Isaac de Rivas made a hydrogen gas powered internal combustion engine and mounted it on a vehicle.

1814 – George Stephenson built the first practical steam-powered railway locomotive "Blutcher" at Killingworth Colliery. Lives of the Emgineers[4]

1830 - Liverpool Manchester Railway opens. First public transport system without animal traction, first public line with no rope hauled sections for main journey, first twin track, first railway between 2 large towns, first timetabled trains, First train faster than a mail coach, first tunnels under streets, first proper modern railway which formed the template for all subsequent railways

1852 – Elisha Otis invents the safety elevator.

1830 - Liverpool Manchester Railway opens. First public transport system without animal traction, first public line with no rope hauled sections for main journey, first twin track, first railway between 2 large towns, first timetabled trains, First train faster than a mail coach, first tunnels under streets, first proper modern railway which formed the template for all subsequent railways

1853 – Sir George Cayley built and demonstrated the first heavier-than-air aircraft (a glider)

1862 – Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline engine automobile

1880 – Werner von Siemens builds first electric elevator.

1883 - Karl Benz invents the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, he called it the Benz Patent Motorwagen.

1894 – Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first motorcycle available to the public for purchase.

1897 – Charles Parsons' Turbinia, the first vessel to be powered by a steam turbine, makes her debut.

1899 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successful airship [13]

20th Century

1903 Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane

1908 – Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T

1912 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket

1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation[15]

1939 - First jet engine powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.

1955 – The first nuclear-powered vessel, the USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched

1947 – First supersonic manned flight

1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth

Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit

1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov

1969 First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.

First manned Moon landing

1981 – First flight of the space shuttle

1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight

1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens

21th Century

2002 - the Segway PT self-balancing personal transport was launched by inventor Dean Kamen

2004 – the first commercial high speed Maglev train starts operation between Shanghai and its airport.

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