Timeline of transportation technology

[edit] Before 1700

3500 BC - Wheeled carts are invented
3500 BC - River boats are invented
2000 BC - Horses are tamed and used for transport
312 BC - one of the first paved roads, the Appian Way built; the Romans eventually built over 50,000 miles of paved roads, remarkably similar to modern road construction
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]

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]

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 railroad locomotive. Oliver Evans 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 railroad locomotive
1816 - The most likely originator of the bicycle is 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 (rail) for railway trains.

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 oceangoing, diesel engine driven ship
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
December 17, 1935 - First flight of the DC-3, the most famous aircraft in the history of aviation.^[4]
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
December 20, 1957 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jet airliner.
1961 - Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, made 2 orbits around the earth.
February 9, 1969 - First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
1969 - First manned Moon landing
1976 - Concorde made the world's first commercial passenger carrying supersonic flight
1981 - First flight of the space shuttle

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

^ SA MOTORING HISTORY - TIMELINE. Government of South Australia.
^ Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c C.D. Buchanan (1958). "1", Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain. Leonard Hill.
^ The DC-3