Timeline of transportation technology
- 3500 BC – Wheeled carts are invented
- 3500 BC – River boats are invented
- 2000 BC – Horses are tamed and used for transport
- 770 – Iron horseshoes come into common use
- 1492 – Leonardo da Vinci describes a flying machine
- 1662 – Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system
- 1740 – Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage
- 1783 – Joseph Montgolfier and ƒtienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons
- 1801 – Richard Trevithick builds a prototype steam powered railroad locomotive
- 1807 – Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle
- 1814 – George Stephenson builds the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive
- 1853 – Sir George Cayley builds and demonstrates the first heavier-than-air aircraft (a glider)
- 1862 – Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline-engine automobile
- 1868 – George Westinghouse invents the compressed air locomotive brake
- 1900 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successful dirigible
- 1903 – Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane
- 1908 – Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing
- 1942 – V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 km
- 1947 – First supersonic flight
- 1957 – Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
- 1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, made 2 orbits around the earth.
- 1969 – First manned mission to the Moon
- 1981 – First flight of the space shuttle