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Railroad Timeline History
Milestones in English and American railway development... |
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Aviation Timeline
First airborne American - June 24 (July 17), 1784 - Edward Warren of Baltimore MD, age 13, went aloft in a captive balloon built by Peter Carnes, who was either afraid to... |
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Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate
Sir Samuel Cunard, a Canadian-born British magnate, was a giant of Atlantic shipping. When the British government invited bids (1838) for carrying mail between England an... |
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Goodyear, Vulcanization Rubber - 1839
Charles Goodyear was the inventor of vulcanization, a process that makes rubber harder, less soluble, and more durable. It is at the heart of rubber compounding, which pl... |
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Robert Stephenson, Engineer
Robert Stephenson is chiefly remembered for his role in the birth of the railways. His refinements to the steam engine made steam locomotion a viable form of transport, w... |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British engineer who pioneered fast, cheap & reliable mass public transport with the enthusiasm of a visionary matched by his ability to con... |
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Karl Benz, Automobile Engineer
Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Other German contemporari... |
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Rudolf Diesel, Inventor Diesel Engine 1893
Born in Paris of Bavarian parents, Diesel studied at Munich Polytechnic. He began his career as a refrigerator engineer. For ten years he worked on various heat engines,... |
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Henry Ford, Car Mass Production 1913
Most people credit Henry Ford with inventing the automobile. The fact is he didn't. He did, however, introduce standardized interchangeable parts and assembly-line techni... |
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George Washington Carver
Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and an M.S. in 1896. He beca... |
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The Suez Canal, Egypt
The idea of a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea dates back to ancient times. Unlike the modern Canal, earlier ones linked the Red Sea to the Nile, therefore... |
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Triumph Motorcycle Timeline
The history of Triumph Motorcycles from 1883 to present day. There have been more than 3,000 individual motorcycle marques since the late 1800s when the first motorized b... |
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The Automobile Timeline
Man had not yet realized his dream of the automobile. Just as today man may strive to achieve time travel, our ancestors of this period longed to develop a method of land... |
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Amelia Earhart
Becomes the first woman (and second person) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in her single engine Lockheed Vega and the first person to cross the Atlantic twice by a... |
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Wright brothers, First Flying Airplane
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted a program of aeronautica research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 190 an... |
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