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Before 1700

• 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^[1][2]

(36th century BC - 35th century BC - 34th century BC - other centuries) (5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC) Events ? - Formation of the Sahara Desert 3450 (?) - Stage IId of the Naqada culture in Egypt Significant persons Inventions, discoveries, introductions ? _ Irrigation in Egypt ? - First use of Cuneiform (script) Categories... The force bearing on the axle has an eccentricity e with the point of contact to the rolling surface and exerts a moment about the contact point. ... A boat is a watercraft designed to float on, and provide transport over, water. ... (Redirected from 2000 BC) (21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 2000 BC -- Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... Emperor Kōnin ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Empress Shōtoku. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... Modern horseshoes are most commonly made of iron and nailed onto the hoof. ... Not to be confused with 1492: Conquest of Paradise. ... The Mona Lisa Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. ... Events February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. ... Blaise Pascal (pronounced ), (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... A Go North East bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England. ... Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ... Father Ferdinand Verbiest (October 9, 1623-January 28, 1688) was a Belgian Jesuit missionary in China. ...

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

Events May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). ... Jacques de Vaucanson (February 24, 1709-November 21, 1782) was a French engineer and inventor who is credited with creating the worlds first true robots, as well as for creating the first completely automated loom. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who is claimed by the French government to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile. ... Karl Benzs Velo model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race An automobile (or motorcar; often simply car; also auto, motor) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Hot air balloon in flight Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human carrying flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers invention in Annonay, France in 1783. ...

1800

• 1804 - Richard Trevithick builds a prototype steam powered railroad locomotive. Oliver Evans demonstrates a steam powered amphibious vehicle.
• 1807 - Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle
• 1814 - George Stephenson builds 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 builds and demonstrates the first heavier-then-air aircraft (a glider)
• 1862 - Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline-engine automobile
• 1868 - George Westinghouse invents the compressed Air brake (rail) for railway trains.

1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Richard Trevithick Richard Trevithick (April 13, 1771 – April 22, 1833) was a British inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Great Western Railway No. ... Oliver Evans Oliver Evans (13 September 1755 – 15 April 1819) was a United States inventor. ... An amphibious vehicle is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water - just like an amphibian. ... Year 1807 (MDCCCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... General Name, Symbol, Number hydrogen, H, 1 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 1, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 1. ... Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... George Stephenson George Stephenson For the British politician, see George Stevenson. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Sir George Cayley Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773–15 December 1857) was an exuberant English polymath from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. ... Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (January 12, 1822 - August 4, 1900) was a French-Belgian engineer. ... Karl Benzs Velo model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race An automobile (or motorcar; often simply car; also auto, motor) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ... Media:Example. ... George Westinghouse, Jr. ... Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E-T Air Brake system. ...

1900

• 1900 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first successful airship
• 1903 - Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane
• 1903 - small 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
• 1911 - Selandia launched, the first oceangoing, diesel engine driven ship
• 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
• 1942 - V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 km
• 1947 - First supersonic flight
• 1957 - Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit
• 1961 - Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, made 2 orbits around the earth.
• 1969 - First manned Moon landing
• 1976 - Concorde made the world's first commercial passenger carrying supersonic flight
• 1981 - First flight of the space shuttle

1991 hubble space telescope Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Zeppelin Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. ... USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871–January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867–May 30, 1912), were two Americans generally credited with building the worlds first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Diesel or diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article needs cleanup. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... F-1 rocket engine (The kind used by the Saturn V.) A bipropellant rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses two fluid propellants stored in separate tanks that are injected into, and undergo a strong exothermic reaction, in a rockets combustion chamber. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... V2 V2, Japanese musical duo formed by Yoshiki of ex-X Japan and Tetsuya Komuro V2 Records V2 word order, the verb-second word order of Germanic languages Velocity 2, the speed where an aircraft accelerating on a runway must lift-off Visual cortex#V2 area Vatican II or Second... A Soyuz rocket, at Baikanur launch pad. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... A United States Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in transonic flight. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Sputnik 1 (Russian: , Satellite-1, byname ПС-1 (PS-1, i. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Vostok 1 was the first manned space mission. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... For the current Space Shuttle mission, see STS-117 NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ...

2000

• 2003 - Concorde made the world's last commercial passenger carrying supersonic flight
• 2004 - SpaceShipOne first commercial manned space flight.

2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... SpaceShipOne is small, having a three-person cabin and short but wide wings. ...

Notes

1. ^ SA MOTORING HISTORY - TIMELINE. Government of South Australia.
2. ^ Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7.