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Railroad Timeline History
Milestones in English and American railway development... |
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Robert Fulton, 1st Practical Submarine
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of ste... |
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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 Royce, Co-founder Rolls Royce
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company. With his fascination for all thi... |
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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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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Pioneer of Aviation
Alberto Santos-Dumont was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. Heir of a prosperous coffee producer family, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to sc... |
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Ferdinand Porsche, Automotive Engineer
Prof. Dr. Ing h.c. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer. He is best known for creating the Volkswagen (Beetle) as well as the first of many Porsche autom... |
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