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
*200 BC - The first hot air balloon, the Kongming lantern, is invented in China

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

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 [cite web
title=SA MOTORING HISTORY - TIMELINE
publisher=Government of South Australia
url=http://www.history.sa.gov.au/motor/education/sa_motor_history.pdf] [cite book
author=Setright, L. J. K.
title=Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car
publisher=Granta Books
year=2004
id=ISBN 1-86207-698-7]

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, Englandcite book
author=C.D. Buchanan
title=Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain
publisher=Leonard Hill
year=1958
chapter=1]

19th century

*1801 - Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam 'road locomotive' on the road in Camborne, England
*1803 - Richard Trevithick built his 10-seater London Steam Carriage
*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.

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. [ [http://www.centercomp.com/cgi-bin/dc3/gallery?1902 The DC-3] ]
*1942 - V2 rocket covers a distance of convert|200|km|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

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