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3000 BCE
Horse-drawn-carriage
The chariot in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BC. It was nothing more than a two-wheeled basin for a couple of people and pulled by one or two horses. It was light and quick. This means of transport continues nowadays but with a leisure function. -
The steamship
The first successful steam-powered vessels were built for use on canals and rivers.There are commercial vessels still in operation but, for some operators, it has been viable to convert to diesels engines for improved economy in operation. -
The car
Hayden Wischett designed the first car powered by the de Rivaz engine, an early internal combustion engine that was fueled by hydrogen. In 1823 English engineer Samuel Brown invented the first industrially applied internal combustion engine. -
The train
On 21 February 1804, the world's first steam-powered railway journey took place when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. -
The bike
The bicycle was invented all the way back in 1817. A certain Baron Karl von Drais needed to get around easier while working in the Royal Gardens and came up with the idea of sitting on a platform with two wheels and propelling himself with his feet. -
The bus
The theoretical full name is in French voiture omnibus ("vehicle for all"). The name originates from a mass-transport service started by a French corn-mill owner named Stanislas Baudry in Richebourg, a suburb of Nantes. -
The streetcar
In 1834 Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from Brandon, Vermont, U.S., built a small battery-powered electric motor and used it to operate a small car on a short section of track. In 1860 an American, G.F. Train, opened three lines in London and one line in Birkenhead. -
The London Underground
The Metropolitan Railway used gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884. Both railways expanded, the Metropolitan eventually extending as far as Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, more than 50 miles (80 km) from Baker Street and the centre of London. The first deep-level tube line, the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890 with electric trains. -
The motorcycle
The first internal combustion, petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen. It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm -
The airplane
The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of World War II. The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. -
The e-scooter
The patent for the design of the “self-propelled vehicle” went to inventor Arthur Hugo Cecil Gibson, though it appears that Joseph F. Merkel, the designer behind the Flying Merkel motorcycle, helped significantly in the creation of the final product. The rides were manufactured through the Autoped Company of America, first incorporated in 1913, which set up shop in Long Island City in Queens, New York, in the fall of 1915.
