Land transportation history

Land Transportation Timeline-Mfiedler

  • First Locomotive

    First Locomotive

    First locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick
  • Tramway

    Tramway

    A lightly laid railway for such as logging or mining (the original use of a word).
  • Rail Transport

    Rail Transport

    First commercially successful steam locomotive by Matthew Murray.
  • Paved Road

    Paved Road

    MacAdam published treeties desribing new method of building roads.
  • 2 Wheel Mechanical Transport

    2 Wheel Mechanical Transport

    First human propelled bicycle appeared.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine

    A locomative that produces power through a steam engine.
  • Electric Carriage

    Electric Carriage

    An automobile which is prepelled by an electric motor using electrical energy stored in batteries or another energy storage device.
  • Internal Combustion Engine

    Internal Combustion Engine

    Jean Lenoir was a belgaine engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1859.
  • Patent granted for Karl Benz Engine

    Patent granted for Karl Benz Engine

    Karl Benz was a german engine designer and car engineer generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline engine power car.
  • Pneumatic Tire

    Pneumatic Tire

    A tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air.
  • First Car

    First Car

    In 1893, the first running, gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers of Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • Buick

    Buick

    Brand of automobile that originated in 1899 and taken over by James Whiting who brought in William Durant in 1904 to manage structure.
  • Mass Production in the U.S.

    Mass Production in the U.S.

    It began in the United States with the 1901 Oldsmobile built the American car manufacture Ransome Eli Olds.
  • Automatic Transmission

    Automatic Transmission

    It was invented by the Sturtevant brothers of Boston.