Information about 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
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