Development of transportation:
20st Century
1900 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first successful airship.
1903
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane.
Diesel engine tested in a canal boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff.
1908 – Henry FoRd develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T.
1911 – Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship.
1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation
1939 - First jet engine powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.
1942 – V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometres (120 mi).
1947 – Chuck Yeager in the Bell X1 completes the first supersonic manned flight.
1955 – The first nuclear-powered vessel, the USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched.
1957
Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit.
Gateway City, the world’s first purpose-built container ship, enters service.
First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially-successful jet airliner.
1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth
1969
First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
First manned Moon landing.
1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov.
1975 - Morgantown PRT, the first Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed.
1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
1981 – First flight of the space shuttle.
1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens.
21st Century
2002 - the Segway PT self-balancing personal transport was launched by inventor Dean Kamen
2004 – the first commercial high speed Maglev train starts operation between Shanghai and its airport.
2010 - Ultra PRT, the first modern commercial Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed. Started operations at Heathrow Airport
1900 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first successful airship.
1903
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane.
Diesel engine tested in a canal boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff.
1908 – Henry FoRd develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T.
1911 – Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship.
1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation
1939 - First jet engine powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.
1942 – V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometres (120 mi).
1947 – Chuck Yeager in the Bell X1 completes the first supersonic manned flight.
1955 – The first nuclear-powered vessel, the USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched.
1957
Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit.
Gateway City, the world’s first purpose-built container ship, enters service.
First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially-successful jet airliner.
1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth
1969
First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
First manned Moon landing.
1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov.
1975 - Morgantown PRT, the first Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed.
1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
1981 – First flight of the space shuttle.
1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens.
21st Century
2002 - the Segway PT self-balancing personal transport was launched by inventor Dean Kamen
2004 – the first commercial high speed Maglev train starts operation between Shanghai and its airport.
2010 - Ultra PRT, the first modern commercial Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed. Started operations at Heathrow Airport