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Period: May 25, 700 to
History of Transportation
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May 25, 770
Iron Horshoes are in common use
These come in to use in this year -
Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route,schedule, and fare system
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Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork poweredcarriage
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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's demonstrates his "steam wagon", arguably the first functional automobile
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Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons
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Leonardo da Vinci describes a flying machine
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Richard Trevithick builds a prototype steam powered railroad locomotive. Oliver Evans demonstrates a steam powered amphibious vehicle.
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Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle
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George Stephenson builds the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive
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The most likely originator of the bicycle is German Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants.
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Sir George Cayley builds and demonstrates the first heavier-than-air aircraft (a glider)
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Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline-engine automobile
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George Westinghouse invents the compressed Air brake (rail) for railway trains.
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successful airship
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Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane
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Small Diesel engine tested in a canal Boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff
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Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing
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Selandia launched, the first oceangoing, diesel engine driven ship
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Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
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V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 km
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First supersonic flight
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Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
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Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, made 2 orbits around the earth.
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First manned mission to the Moon
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First flight of the space shuttle
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SpaceShipOne first commercial manned space flight.