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Boat builders in antcient Egypt used reeds to build what were probably the first sailing boats. Needed to travel up and down the nile.
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Long and narrow so they could travel on open sea, as well as on long rivers.
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Fighting and transport ships used by the chinese.
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Cornelius van Drebbel was the Duetch inventor who made the first submarine. He wrapped a wooden rowboat tightly in waterproofed leather and had air tubes with floats to the surface to provide oxygen.
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Designed by Mont Golfier bros.
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Very fast sailing ship had three or more masts and a square rig.
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These were the first iron made boats. They were also the first to be driven by propellers.
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Built to cross the Atlantic combined steam and wind power.
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Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile
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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.
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DELAG was the world's first airline to use an aircraft (a Zeppelin) in revenue service.
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Igor Sikorsky didn't invent the first helicopter, he simply made one that could fly. By 1940, Igor Sikorsky's successful VS-300 had become the model for all modern single-rotor helicopters.
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By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.
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The U.S. Savannah was one of the first nuclear powered cargo ships. It went three and a half years without refuelling.
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Bullet train transportation invented.
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The first cruise liner was the Prinzessin Victoria Luise created by Albert Ballin.
