Transport

8 inventions

First used for pottery, not transportation, around 3500 BC. The spoked wheel appeared around 2000 BC...

The first powered flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 37 meters. Only 5 people witnessed it. They c...

Benz built the first true automobile with an internal combustion engine. His wife Bertha took the fi...

Stephensons Rocket of 1829 proved steam locomotives were practical. Railways transformed Britain and...

Sikorskys VS-300 was the first practical single-rotor helicopter. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a helic...

Whittle patented the turbojet in 1930 but the RAF showed no interest. Hans von Ohain independently d...

Karl Drais rode his running machine, a wooden two wheeler without pedals, through Mannheim in 1817. ...

Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, sons of a paper maker, launched an unmanned balloon a...