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Concept
Timeline of transportation technology
Summary
This is a timeline of transportation technology and technological developments in the culture of transportation.
20th millennium BC – rafts used on rivers.
7th millennium BC – Earliest known shoes.
6th millennium BC – Dugout canoes constructed.
4th millennium BC – The earliest vehicles may have been ox carts.
3500 BCE – Domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel in Ancient Near East
Toys excavated from the Indus Valley Civilisation (3010–1500 BC) include small carts.
3000 BCE – Austronesians construct catamarans and outriggers.
In the Mediterranean, galleys were developed about 3000 BC.
2nd millennium BC – Cart mentioned in literature, chariot and spoked wheel invented.
800 BC – Canal for transport constructed in Ancient China.
408 BC – Wheelbarrow referenced in Ancient Greece.
5th century – Horse collar invented in China.
6th century – Evidence of a horseshoe in the tomb of the Frankish King Childeric I, Tournai, Belgium.
Late 7th century – First suspension bridge, Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan
800 – The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar.
9th century – The sine quadrant, was invented by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The other types were the universal quadrant, the horary quadrant and the astrolabe quadrant.
10th century – sea-going junk ships built in China.
Late 10th century – Kamal invented in Arab world.
1044 – Compass invented in China.
13th century (or before) – Rocket missiles used in China. Rocket powered passenger vehicles did not appear until 1939.
1350 – Compass dial invented by Ibn al-Shatir.
1479–1519 – Da Vinci sketches pedalo.
1495–1504 – The oldest extant cable railway is probably the Reisszug, a private line providing goods access to Hohensalzburg Fortress at Salzburg in Austria. This line is generally described as the oldest funicular.
15th century – Jan Žižka built the precursor to the motorised tank, armoured wagons equipped with cannons.
1569 – Mercator 1569 world map published.
Late 16th century – European sailing ships become advanced enough to reliably cross oceans.
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