Key transportation inventions, from the wheel through the automobile and airplane, matched with their inventor and approximate date, one invention per card.
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- Who invented the wheel and in approximately what era?
- Unknown, around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia
- Who invented the sailboat and when?
- Ancient Egyptians, around 3100 BCE
- Who invented the hot air balloon?
- Montgolfier brothers, 1783
- Who designed the first practical steam locomotive?
- George Stephenson, 1825
- Who invented the steamship?
- Robert Fulton, 1807
- Who invented the bicycle?
- Karl von Drais, 1817
- Who invented the pneumatic tire?
- John Boyd Dunlop, 1888
- Who built the first practical automobile?
- Karl Benz, 1885-1886
- Who invented the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine for vehicles?
- Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, 1889
- Who pioneered the assembly line for automobile manufacturing?
- Henry Ford, 1913
- Who invented the airplane?
- Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur), 1903
- Who invented the helicopter?
- Igor Sikorsky, 1939
- Who invented the jet engine?
- Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain (independently), 1930s
- Who designed the first submarine?
- David Bushnell, 1775
- Who invented the diesel engine?
- Rudolf Diesel, 1897