Timeline of transportation technology

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Timeline of transportation technology

This is a timeline of transportation technology and technological developments in the culture of transportation.

Antiquity

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A traditional Polynesian catamaran
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Dionysus riding on a small galley-like craft in a painting from the Dionysus cup by Exekias, from c. 530 BC[1]

Middle Ages

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Horse collars and cart between 1350 and 1375

17th century

  • 1604 – The world's first recorded overland wagonway, the 2-mile (3.2 km) Wollaton Wagonway, is built by Huntingdon Beaumont in Nottingham, England, for the transport of coal.[6][7][8]
  • 1616 - The first recorded mechanical ropeway was by Croatian Fausto Veranzio who designed a bicable passenger ropeway
  • 1620 – Cornelius Drebbel builds the world's first known submarine, which is propelled by oars (although there are earlier ideas for and depictions of submarines).
  • 1644 - Adam Wybe builds world's first cable car on multiple supports. It was the biggest built until the end of the 19th century.[9]
  • 1655 - Stephan Farffler was a Nuremberg watchmaker of the seventeenth century whose invention of a manumotive carriage in 1655 is widely considered to have been the first self-propelled wheelchair.
  • 1662 – Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system.
  • 1672 – Ferdinand Verbiest built what may have been the first steam-powered scale model car.[10][11]

18th century

19th century

Early 19th century

Late 19th century

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Late 19th century modes of transport, Japan.
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First Zeppelin ascent, 1900

20th century

Early 20th century

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Early 20th Century modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929

Late 20th Century

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A 0 series Shinkansen high-speed rail set in Tokyo, May 1967
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Concorde 001 first flight in 1969
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Space shuttle launch
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C5 enthusiasts gather at the Brooklands Museum
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First fully low floor tram in Bremen

21st century

Summarize
Perspective

2020s

Transportation technologies in society

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2024: A comprehensive global review of harms from personal car transport is published.

Sustainable transport

  • 2020 – First commercial flight of a hydrogen fuel cell plane.[85]
  • 2020 – Google Maps begins including bike shares in its widely used route planning functionality.[86]
  • Early 2020s – Researchers investigate safe ways of public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic.[87][88][89]
  • 2022 – The first rail line entirely run by hydrogen-powered trains debuts in Germany.[90] The state company owning the railway later switches to electric models since they are "cheaper to operate".[91] Two other hydrogen trains have been reported as of 2023: Mireo Plus H by Siemens in Germany (under development) and an urban train by the Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in China.[92]
  • 2023 – The first test-runs of a superconducting maglev test line, called a hyperloop, are carried out in Datong, China (50 km/h of ~1,000 km/h). Hyperloop One conducted the world's first test carrying passengers in pods, reaching a speed of 172 km/h in Los Angeles in 2020, but reportedly abandoned the goal of transporting humans as of 2023.[93]
  • 2023 – A comeback of sleeping trains in Europe is reported as demand for more comfortable travel modes than overnight buses and sustainable transport rises. A new generation of such trains is released.[94][95][96][97]

Autonomous vehicles

Milestones in autonomous sustainable / public transport vehicles are also listed in this section.

See also

Notes

  1. A "tube" railway is an underground railway constructed in a cylindrical tunnel by the use of a tunnelling shield, usually deep below ground level.

References

Further reading

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