Technology over time

  • 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 and ships with oars.
  • 1492

    Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.
  • 1662

    Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule, and fare system.
  • 1620

    Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible.
  • 1783

    First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat
  • 1807

    1886 In 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen.
  • 1913

    1913 Henry Ford perfect the assembly-line production of his famous Model T, making cars affordable for the average American