Transportation

Transportation

Period: Mar 4, 1600 to Mar 4, 2016

Submarine

Mar 7, 1620

Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine.
he manufactured a steerable submarine with a leather-covered wooden frame. Between 1620 and 1624 Drebbel successfully built and tested two more submarines, each one bigger than the last. The final (third) model had 6 oars and could carry 16 passengers. This model was demonstrated to King James I in person and several thousand Londoners.

First Ship 1656 B.C

Mar 7, 1656

Egyptians

Bus

Mar 7, 1662

Blaise Pascal launched the first public line bus in 1662 but the horse carried these type of buses.

First Steam boat

Mar 7, 1743

John Fitch built four more steamboats, but they were expensive to build and to operate. Because they were so expensive, his steamboats were unsuccessful. The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807

First Hot Airballon

Nov 21, 1783

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon

First Train

Mar 7, 1804

1804 - First steam locomotive.

Car

Mar 7, 1807

In 1807 François Isaac de Rivaz invented the first car. In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered automobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz.

Blimp

Mar 7, 1852

In 1852, Henri Giffard built the first powered airship.Later, in 1900,Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany invented the first rigid airship.

First Motorcycle

Mar 7, 1885

It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt, Germany in 1885.

Helicopter

Nov 13, 1907

The Cornu helicopter was an experimental helicopter built in France, and is widely credited with the first free flight of a rotary-wing aircraft when it took to the air on 13 November 1907.