BC

• c. 3500 first wheeled vehicles, included early from of war chariot, used in Sumerian.

AD

• 1400 Advent of versatile three-masted ship.
• 1769 First steam-powered road vehicles, built by Nicolas Cugnot.
• 1783 First human to fly in a hot –air balloon was J.E Pilatre.
• 1804 Richard Trevithich constructed the first successful stem locomotive.
• 1818 Macadam paving for roads was developed by John L. McAdam.
• 1822 Iron paddle –steamer was used for the first time.
• 1839 Pedal-driven bicycle was invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan.
• 1852 First airship was built.
• 1885 Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz the first petrol engine motor cars.
• 1890 Electric underground railway was introduced.
• 1894 First ships driven by steam turbine came in to begin.
• 1903 First successful powered aero plane flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright was carried our.
• 1919 First non-stop trans-Atlantic flight was made by John Alcock and Arthur Brown.
• 1921 First diesel locomotive cane in regular service.
• 1937 Prototype helicopter the FW61 was successfully tested.
• 1939 Construction and flight of the first jet aircraft by the Heinkel Company of Germany.
• 1949 De Havilland Comet was the first commercial jet airliner.
• 1952 First commercial jet airline service was introduced.
• 1954 The submarine ship was launched by the US navy.
• First hovercraft was invented.
• 1962 First nuclear –powered merchant ship was invented.
• 1968 First supersonic airliner Concorde was invented.
• 1970First jumbo jet came into being.

*The 2002 BMW 28 is the costliest BMW. It is a high performance 2-seat sports car fully equipped with a computer and golf set and costs $118,460.

*The Concorde flies at supersonic speed.

*The first underground railway in the world was started in London in 1863.

*Caravel was constructed in around 1490. Portuguese explorers sailed south in caravels to explore the African coast.