•1900 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first successful airship.
•1903 Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane.
•Diesel engine tested in a canal boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff.
•1908 – Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T.
•1911 – Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship.
•1915
•The Luftkissengleitboot Hovercraft, the first hovering vehicle was created by Dagobert M�ller. It could only travel on water.
•A British commission was tasked with creating a vehicle able to cross a 4 ft wide trench - the tank.
•1916 - The first tank prototype, nicknamed "mother", was created by Britain during World War 1.
•1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
•1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation
•1939 - First jet engine powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.
•1942 – V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometres (120 mi).
•1947 – Chuck Yeager in the Bell X1 completes the first supersonic manned flight.
•1955 – The first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched.
•1957
•Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit.
•Gateway City, the world's first purpose-built container ship, enters service.
•First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jet airliner.
•1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth
•1969
•First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
•NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race, makes the first manned Moon landing a reality.
•1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov.
•1975 - Morgantown PRT, the first Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed.
•1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
•1981 – First flight of the space shuttle.
•1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens.
•1997 - The first Maglev train prototypes are tested in Japan.1900 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first successful airship.
•1903
•Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane.
•Diesel engine tested in a canal boat by Rudolph Diesel, Adrian Bochet and Frederic Dyckhoff.
•1908 – Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T.
•1911 – Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship.
•1915
•The Luftkissengleitboot Hovercraft, the first hovering vehicle was created by Dagobert M�ller. It could only travel on water.
•A British commission was tasked with creating a vehicle able to cross a 4 ft wide trench - the tank.
•1916 - The first tank prototype, nicknamed "mother", was created by Britain during World War 1.
•1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
•1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation
•1939 - First jet engine powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.
•1942 – V2 rocket covers a distance of 200 kilometres (120 mi).
•1947 – Chuck Yeager in the Bell X1 completes the first supersonic manned flight.
•1955 – The first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched.
•1957 •Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to be launched into orbit.
•Gateway City, the world's first purpose-built container ship, enters service.
•First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jet airliner.
•1961 – Vostok 1, the first manned space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth
•1969 •
First flight of the Boeing 747, the first commercial widebody airliner.
•NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race, makes the first manned Moon landing a reality.
•1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov.
•1975 - Morgantown PRT, the first Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed.
•1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
•1981 – First flight of the space shuttle.
•1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens.
•1997 - The first Maglev train prototypes are tested in Japan.