5000 B.C.
People harness animal-muscle power Oxen donkeys, ship & Camel to carry heavy loads.
3,500 B.C.
Egyptians create the first sailboat. Before this, people made rafts or canoes & paddled them with poles or their hands.
1,450's
Portugues build fast ships with three masts. These plus the compass usher in an age of exploration.
1730's
3,500 B.C. In Meso
potamian ( modern-day Iraq), people invented vehicles with wheels.But the first wheels are made of heavy wood, and the roads are terrible.
110 B.C.
Chinese invented the magnetic compass. It can allow them to sail long distances.
The 1660s
Horse-drawn stagecoaches begin to test running in France. They stop at stages to switch horses and passengers -the first mass transit system.
1769
James Watt patents the first succesful steam engine.
1807
Robert Fulton patents a highly efficient steamboat.
1830
Passenger rail service begins England with the Rocket, a steam train built by George Stephenson.It goes about 24 miles an hour or 1 day.
1839
At Kitty Hawk, Macmillan of Scotland invents the first pedaled bicycle.
1862
Etienne Lenoir of Belgium builds the first car with an internal-combustion engine.
1903
At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright pilots the first powered heavier- than air machines a 12-13 second flight.
1908
Henry Ford builds the first Model T, a practical car for the general public.
1939
The first practical helicopter and first jet plane are invented. The jet flies up to 434 mph. Jet passenger service began in 1958.
1947
Flying 700 mph, U.s. Air Force Capt. Charles Chuck Yeager breaks the siybd barrier in the jet-powered Bell X-1.
1961
Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth in a spaceship.
1969
U.s. astronauts aboard Apollo 11 land on the MOON.
1981
The Space Shuttle Columbia is the first reusable spacecraft with a human crew.
1997
British driver Andy Green breaks the sound barrier on land for the first time, going 763-764 mph.
2000
Amtrak runs its northeast high-speed Acela train.It can go 150 miles an hour.
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