Land Transportation

  • 181

    181-234

    181-234-The wheelbarrow is invented.
  • Mar 15, 770

    770

    770-Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse
  • 1662

    1662-Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule, and fare system
  • 1740

    1740-Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage
  • 1769

    1769-First self-propelled road vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
  • 1790

    1790-Modern bicycles invented
  • 1801

    1801-Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for roads)
  • 1807

    1807-Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design
  • 1807

    1807-First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fulton's Clermont
  • 1814

    1814-George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive
  • 1862

    1862-Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile
  • 1867

    1867-First motorcycle invented
  • 1868

    1868-George Westinghouse invents the compressed air locomotive brake - enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy
  • 1871

    1871-First cable car invented
  • 1885

    1885-Karl Benz builds the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine
  • 1899

    1899-Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first successful dirigible - the Zeppelin
  • 1908

    1908-Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing
  • 1964

    1964-Bullet train transportation invented
  • 3500 B.C.

    3500 BC-Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history, other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot.
  • 2000 BC

    2000 BC-Horses are domesticated and used for transportation.