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

1672 – Ferdinand Verbiest built what may have been the first steam powered car

1700

1740 – Jacques de Vaucanson dudett his clockwork powered carriage

1769 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates his “steam wagon”, an early functional automobile

1783 – Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons

1784 – William Murdoch built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, England

1800

1801 – Richard Trevithick ran a full sized steam wagon on the road in Camborne, England

1803 – Richard Trevithick built his 10-seater London steam carriage

1804 – Richard Trevithick built a prototype steam powered railroad locomotive. Oliver Evans demonstrated a steam powered amphibious vehicle.

1807 – Isaac de Rivas made a hydrogen gas powered vehicle

1814 – George Stephenson built the first practical steam powered railroad locomotive

1816 – The most likely originator of the bicycle is German Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants.

1853 – Sir George Cayley built and demonstrated the first heavier-then-air aircraft (a glider)

1862 – Jean Lenoir made a gasoline-engine automobile

1868 – George Westinghouse invented the compressed Air brake (rail) for railway trains.