- Timeline of transportation technology
Timeline of transportation technologyAntiquity
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3500 BC -Wheel ed carts are invented inMesopotamia
*3500 BC - Riverboat s are invented
*2000 BC -Ship s are invented inancient Egypt
*2500 BC - Earliest paved roads built inRakhigarhi (Indus Valley Civilization )
*2400 BC -Shipyard built inLothal (Indus Valley Civilization)
*2000 BC -Horse s are tamed and used for transport
*2000 BC -Chariot s built byIndo-Iranians
*500 BC -Postal system developed inAchaemenid Empire (Persian Empire )
*312 BC - One of the earliest paved roads, theAppian Way , is built; the Romans eventually built over 50,000 miles of pavedRoman road s
*200 BC - The firsthot air balloon , theKongming lantern , is invented inChina Middle Ages
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559 AD - First attempt atflight using akite byYuan Huangtou
*700 -Kamal invented in India orArab Empire
*700 -Lateen sail s invented in theMiddle East
*800 - The streets ofBaghdad are paved withtar
*852 - Earliestparachute invented byAbbas Ibn Firnas
*875 - First attempt at controlled flight byAbbas Ibn Firnas
*1044 -Compass invented inChina
*1100 -Compass rose invented in Arab Empire
*1200 -Caravel ship invented inAl-Andalus
*1350 -Compass dial invented byIbn al-Shatir
*1576 -Ironclad warship built byOda Nobunaga 17th century
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1633 -Lagari Hasan Çelebi makes the first attempt at flying in an artificially-poweredrocket
*1662 -Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn publicbus 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
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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 firsthot air balloon s
*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
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1801 -Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam 'road locomotive ' on the road in Camborne, England
*1803 - Richard Trevithick built his 10-seaterLondon Steam Carriage
*1804 - Richard Trevithick built a prototype steam-poweredrailway locomotive .
*1804 -Oliver Evans (claimed to have) demonstrated a steam-poweredamphibious vehicle .
*1807 -Isaac de Rivas made ahydrogen 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, BaronKarl von Drais , who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants.
*1853 - SirGeorge Cayley built and demonstrated the first heavier-then-air aircraft (aglider )
*1862 -Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline-engineautomobile
*1868 -George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains.20th century
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1900 -Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successfulairship
*1903 - Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane
*1903 - Smalldiesel engine tested in a canal boat byRudolph Diesel ,Adrian Bochet andFrederic 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 theDC-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 - V2rocket covers a distance of convert|200|km|mi
*1947 - Firstsupersonic flight
*1957 -Sputnik 1 , the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
*December 20 ,1957 - First flight of theBoeing 707 , the first commercially-successful jet airliner.
*1961 -Vostok 1 , the first manned space mission, designed bySergey Korolyov andKerim Kerimov , makes two orbits around the Earth
*February 9 ,1969 - First flight of theBoeing 747 , the first commercial widebody airliner.
*1969 - First manned Moon landing
*1971 -Salyut 1 , the firstspace station , launched byKerim Kerimov
*1976 -Concorde made the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight
*1981 - First flight of thespace shuttle 21st century
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2003 -Concorde made the world's last commercial passenger carrying supersonic flightNotes
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