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