Land Transportation

By realgabbri
  • Mar 29, 1492

    Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight

  • Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible

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

  • Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage

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

  • First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat

  • The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons

  • Steamboat invented

  • Modern bicycles invented

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

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

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

  • George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive

  • Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile

  • First motorcycle invented