Timeline of Transportation

By afl9794
  • 2500 BCE

    First Wheeled Vehicles

    First Wheeled Vehicles
    Wheels were fixed on carts for the first time.
  • 2000 BCE

    Horses

    Horses
    The horses were domesticated and used for transportation
  • 1492

    Submarines

    Submarines
    Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine

  • Public Transportation

    Public Transportation
    Blaise Pascal invented the first public bus, it was horse drawn, had a regular route, schedule. and fare system.

  • Clockwork Carriage

    Clockwork Carriage
    Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrated his clockwork powered carriage

  • First self-propelled road vehicle

    First self-propelled road vehicle
    invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot

  • Hot Air Balloon

    Hot Air Balloon
    The Montgolfier brothers invented the first hot air balloon

  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    First steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans; a paddle wheel steamboat.

  • Steam Locomotive

    Steam Locomotive
    Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotives designed for roads

  • Railroad Locomotive

    Railroad Locomotive
    George Stephenson invented the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive.

  • Modern bicycle able to be steered.

    Modern bicycle able to be steered.
    Charles Baron von Drais devised a front wheel capable of being steered.

  • First gas engine automobile

    First gas engine automobile
    Created by Jean Lenoir

  • Compressed air brakes

    Compressed air brakes
    George Westinghouse invented the compressed air locomotive brake; allowed trains to stop with fail-safe accuracy

  • The Zeppelin

    The Zeppelin
    Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented the first successful dirigible

  • First Human Flight

    First Human Flight
    The Wright brothers invented and flew the first engined airplane

  • Better Cars

    Better Cars
    Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing

  • Rockets launched

    Rockets launched
    First liquid propelled rocket launched

  • Modern Helicopters invented

    Modern Helicopters invented
    Designed by Igor Sikorsky

  • Apollo lands on the Moon

    Apollo lands on the Moon
    The first manned mission to land on the moon.

  • First space shuttle mission

    First space shuttle mission
    Launched from the Kennedy Space Center.