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Transportation Inventions History

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

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