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Transportation History Time Line

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  • Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

    Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
    Built the first self propelled road vehicle
  • Richard Trevithick

    Richard Trevithick
    Built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson
    George Stephenson built his famous LOCOMOTION No. 1 which is capable of pulling 90 tons of coal at 115mph.
  • First Steam Engine

    First Steam Engine
    The first steam engine was built and it was great until it exploded in 1931.
  • Robert Anderson

    Robert Anderson
    The Electric Carriage was invented
  • George Westinghouse

    George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse made his first automatic air brake which soon became the primary brake system in future trains.
  • Karl Friedrich Benz

    Karl Friedrich Benz
    Gasoline automobile powered by internal combustion engine.
  • Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach

    Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach
    First four wheeled, four stroke engine was created.
  • The Wright Brothers

    The Wright Brothers
    Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first powered aircraft
  • Eugene Fly

    Eugene Fly
    Eugene Fly pilots a Curtiss biplane on the first flight to take off from a ship.
  • Hugo Junkers

    Hugo Junkers
    Hugo Junkers introduced the Junker J4 which is a all metal plane mainly built of lightweight aluminum alloy.
  • Hermann Kemper

    Hermann Kemper
    Hermann Kemper who is from Germany made a train system that used magnetic levitation.
  • Igor Sikorsky

    Igor Sikorsky
    Igor Sikorsky develops the VS-300 helicopter for the U.S. Army.
  • First Bullet Train

    First Bullet Train
    The First Bullet Train was introduced in Japan and had a speed of 160km/h
  • 2015 Aviation History

    2015 Aviation History
    2015 was the least deadliest year in aviation history since ASN’s records began.