3500 BC Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot. 3500 BC River boats are invented - ships with oars 2000 BC Horses are domesticated and used for transportation. 181-234 The wheelbarrow is invented. 770 Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse 1492 Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight 1620 Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible 1662 Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule, and fare system 1740 Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage 1783 First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy dAbbans - a paddle wheel steamboat 1783 The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons 1787 Steamboat invented 1769 First self-propelled road vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1790 Modern bicycles invented 1801 Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for roads) 1807 Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design 1807 First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fultons Clermont 1814 George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive 1862 Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile 1867 First motorcycle invented 1868 George Westinghouse invents the compressed air locomotive brake - enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy 1871 First cable car invented 1885 Karl Benz builds the worlds first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine 1899 Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first successful dirigible - the Zeppelin 1903 The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane 1907 Very first helicopter - unsuccessful design 1908 Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing 1908 Hydrofoil boats co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell & Casey Baldwin - boats that skimmed water 1926 First liquid propelled rocket launched 1940 Modern helicopters invented 1947 First supersonic jet flight 1956 Hovercraft invented 1964 Bullet train transportation invented 1969 First manned mission (Apollo ) to the Moon 1970 First jumbo jet 1981 Space shuttle launched
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