"Many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase." (Dan 12:4)

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 - ships with oars

2000 BC
Horses are domesticated and used for transportation.

200 AD
The wheelbarrow is invented.

770
Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse

1492
Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight

1623
Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel, employed by James I of England, built the first working submarine on the Themes river.

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

1740
Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage

1783
First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat

1783
The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons

1787
Steamboat invented

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

1770
Modern bicycles invented

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

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

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

1814
George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive

1862
Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile

1867
First motorcycle invented

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

1871
First cable car invented

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

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

1903
The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane

1907
Very first helicopter - unsuccessful design

1908
Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing

1908
Hydrofoil boats co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell & Casey Baldwin - boats that skimmed water

1926
First liquid propelled rocket launched

1940
Modern helicopters invented

1947
First supersonic jet flight

1956
Hovercraft invented

1964
Bullet train invented

1969
First manned mission (Apollo) to the Moon

1970
First jumbo jet

1981
Space shuttle launched