Transport Systems & Planning

By jris

  • London New River opens (fresh water)

  • Canal du Midi, France

    Pharaoh's Canal earlier between 2000-610 BCE

  • Papin builds steam digester

    Extracting fat from bones. Innovation didn't go anywhere.

  • Savery's (Fire Engine) patent application

    Automated rowing capstan patent application

  • Newcomen and John Cawley develop Savery patent 'Newcomen engine'

    Relied on technology from Papin's steam engine. Started getting use in Tin, Copper and Lead mines in 1712.

  • Newcomen engine used in tin, copper and lead mines.

    Newcomen engine used in tin, copper and lead mines.
    Coal mines to follow.

  • Newcomen engines used in Sweden, Austrian empire, Liege etc.

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    England canal era

    Building of canals.

  • Start of English Canal era - Bridgewater's coal mine-Manchester

    12km long
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    Flurry of inland canal navigation acts

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    Tenn-Tom waterway improvement saga

    From initial plans scouted by French explorer, to the very delayed construction by US Army Corps with government subsidy.

  • Watt's idea for condenser feedback for engine downstroke

  • Watt's condenser patented

  • Smeaton examines numerous steam engines.

    Efficiency.

  • Smeaton founded Society of Civil Engineers

  • Watt builds Watt-Bolton engines

    With Matthew Bolton, business man.
    Engines were very heavy relative to output, so transport uses were limited.

  • Watt patents un-utilised double-acting engine

  • Franklin favours jet propulsion over paddle wheels

  • Fitch-Voight's Perseverance steamboat

    Steam-powered oars, Delaware River

  • Other inventors (& rivers) issued Steamboat patents

    Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet (Savannah, Georgia), Oliver Evans (Delaware), Samuel Morey (Connecticut), Nicholas Roosevelt (Ohio and Mississippi) and John Stevens (Hoboken).

  • 4 Steamboat technology patents awarded

    Thomas Jefferson awards John Fitch, James Rumsey, Nathan Read and John Stevens patents for steamboat technologies.

  • Samuel Morey's steamboat patent

  • Kentucky River improvement plans start

  • Watt-Bolton engine dominant, patents expire

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    England coal demand rising

  • Fulton and Robert Livingston collaborated on steamboats.

    River Seine

  • Trevithick's steam loco

  • US Army Corps of Engineers began

  • Symington constructed Charlotte Dundas steam canal tugboat

    Symington constructed Charlotte Dundas steam canal tugboat
    Used on Forth and Clyde Canal for a year, then converted to dredge machine.

  • Fulton's North River Steamboat "Clermont"

    First steamboat to be a proper commercial success. It wasn't as advanced as Symington's, but it found the market, an important piece of the innovation puzzle.

  • US acquires majority Mississippi River system

  • French Flemish boat standards introduced

  • Steamboats appear on Ohio river

  • US cities were facing the sea

  • Erie Canal (Hudson River, US) starts construction

  • French canalisation plan adopted

  • England features four-level inland waterway system

    • The rivers and their improvements
    • Broad canals, extending river navagation
    • Narrow, 2.1m canals
    • Tub canals

  • Edward Pease secured plateway Parliament enabling act

  • American river improvements commence

    American river improvements commence

  • General Survey BIll authorizing improvements of military importance (mail transport)

  • George Stephenson's Stockton & Darlington plateway operational

    George Stephenson's Stockton & Darlington plateway operational
    Referred to as the first operational 'railway' among debates.

  • Kentucky River improvement construction begins

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    Expanded US spending on canals (& railways)

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    Canal debt-repudiation depression

  • Period: to

    US experiences unusually cold winter

    Devastating to canal systems

  • Many US states in debt from canal investment

  • Congressional Report: waterways declared natural competitor/regulator of railways

  • US Rivers and Harbors Act introduced

  • Locks and Dams upgrade along Ohio river funded

  • US Corps gain federal authority to control sewerage & debris dumping

  • Further Kentucky river improvements made

    Pushed by the locals, despite the context of dominant railroad alternative.

  • US high dams being built

  • Ohio and Upper Mississippi exhibits lock congestion

  • Kentucky river handover from Corps to State

    Recreational traffic since.
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    Supply expanded to meet private motorvehicle demand (motorways)

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    Road planning shift to demand-side instead of supply-side (efficient use of existing roads)

  • First Earth Summit, UN Conference of Environment and Development

    @ Rio de Janeiro