Transport Machines
Classification
Transport machines use the wheel/axle, screw, inclined plane, lever, wedge, and/or pulley to carry persons or objects from one place to another. Transport machines include: trains, cars, ships, submarines, planes, rockets, and satellites.
Inventions from the TOKENS ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Reed boat | banded reeds | 10,000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
| Dugout canoe | burned out trunk | 8000 BCE | Northern Europe | |
| Sledge | with lubricant/grease | 7000 BCE | Northern Europe/UK | |
| Travois | early dog sled | 7000 BCE | Native American | North America |
| Skis | snow transport | 6300 BCE | Russia | |
| Square cloth sail | sailboat | 6000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
| Rowing oars | carved wood | 5000 BCE | China |
Inventions from the WRITTEN ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Wheel/axle | domesticated horse same time | 3500 BCE | Sumer/Eurasia steppes | Mesopotamia/Eurasia (8) |
| Cart | wheeled vehicle | 3500 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
| Chariot | horse drawn | 3200 BCE | Kazakhstan | |
| Wood hulled sailboat | with oars | 3000 BCE | Egypt, Mesopotamia (9) | |
| Sea going ship | wooden | 3000 BCE | Austronesian (Taiwan) | |
| Spoked wheel | wooden | 2000 BCE | Eurasia/Egypt | |
| Phoenician war galley ship | battering ram | 1500 BCE | Phoenicia, Middle East | |
| Rudder | ship steering | 1420 BCE | Egypt | |
| Ice skates | winter transportation | 1000 BCE | Scandinavia |
Inventions from the ALPHABET ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Early saddle | cloth pad | 700 BCE | Assyria | |
| Toe stirrup | leather strap for big toe | 200 BCE | India | |
| Lateen sail | triangular cloth sail for tacking | 500 BCE | Greece | |
| Metal rimmed wheel | spoked | 500 BCE | Celtic (UK) | |
| Framed true saddle | 200 BCE | China (62) | ||
| Astrolabe | navigation device | 150 BCE | Hipparchus of Nicaea | Rhodes, Greece |
| Wheelbarrow | 100 BCE | Zhuge Liang | China | |
| Horse shoe | iron | 100 AD | Rome | |
| Horse collar | 250 AD | China | ||
| Metal stirrups | 250 AD | China (62) | ||
| Paddle wheel boat | design in mechanical treatise | 450 AD | Vitruvius | Rome |
Inventions from the NUMBERS ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Viking longboat | ocean going oared sailboat | 1000 AD | Scandinavia | |
| Wet compass | compass for navigation | 1040 AD | China (71) | |
| Chinese junk | ocean going sailboat | 1100 AD | China | |
| Rocket | distant war weapon | 1232 AD | China |
Inventions from the PRINT ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Chip log | measuring knots (speed) | 1500 AD | Portugal | |
| Crosstaff | Jacob's staff | 1510 AD | Leviben Gerson | France |
| Wheelchair | for Phillip, king of Spain | 1590 | Spain | |
| Submarine | 1620 AD | Cornelius Drebbel | Netherlands (99) | |
| Sextant | for latitude determination | 1731 AD | Thomas Godfrey/John Hadby | USA/UK |
| Steam locomotive | early | 1802 AD | Richard Trevithick | UK |
| Glider flight | successful | 1804 AD | George Cayley | UK |
| Steamboat | paddlewheel | 1807 AD | Robert Fulton | USA |
| Improved locomotive | steam | 1814 AD | George Stephenson | UK |
Inventions from the WIRED ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| First propeller steam ship | Archimedes | 1839 | Archimedes | UK (65) |
| Telemark skis | for cross country skiing | 1849 | Telemark | Norway |
| Elevator safety brake | allowed for skyscrapers | 1852 | Elisha Otis | USA |
| Manned dirigible flight | lighter than air flight | 1852 | Henri Giffard | France |
| Safety bicycle | modern bicycle | 1854, 1885 | John Kemp Starley | UK (78) |
| Iron clad ship | USS Monitor | 1862 | John Ericcson | Sweden/USA |
| 4 wheeled roller skate | 1863 | James Plimpton | USA | |
| Metal rimmed spoked wheels | 1869 | Eugene Meyer | France | |
| Air brake | for trains | 1869 | George Westinghouse | USA |
| 4 stroke internal combustion engine | gas automobile | 1876 | Nicolaus Otto | Germany (17) |
| Automobile seat belts | safety device | 1885 | Edward J. Claghorn | USA |
| Automobile | 2 stroke gas engine | 1886 | Karl Benz | Germany (17) |
| Powered airplane | heavier than air with controls | 1903 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | USA (26) |
| U - boat | successful submarine | 1905 | Germany | |
| Quadricopter | 4 rotors | 1907 | Jacques and Louis Brequet, Charles Richet | France |
| Continuous caterpillar tracks | carry road with vehicle | 1907 | David Roberts | UK |
| Outboard motor | portable, detachable | 1908 | Ole Evinrude | Norway/USA |
| Model T automobile | practical car | 1908 | Henry Ford | USA |
| Backpack parachute | pilot safety device | 1911 | Gleb Kotelnikov | |
| Seaplane | 1911 | Henri Fabre | France | |
| Liquid fueled rocket | 1914 | Robert H. Goddard | USA | |
| Traffic light | 1914 | Garrett Morgan | USA | |
| Tank | armored vehicle | 1915 | Walter Wilson, William Tritten, Gegene Brille | UK/France |
| Automatic pilot | gyrostabilizer | 1915 | Lawrence and Elmer Sperry | USA |
| Hydraulic brake | 1918 | Malcolm Lougheed | USA | |
| Motor scooter | 1919 | Greville Bradshaw | UK | |
| Mobile home | 1919 | Glenn H. Curtiss | USA | |
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Inventions from the WIRELESS ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Snowmobile | caterpillar track/belt | 1922 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier | Canada |
| Waterski | water transport/recreation | 1922 | Ralph Samuelson | USA |
| Bulldozer | 2 caterpillar tracks | 1923 | James Cummings | USA |
| Power steering | easier control | 1923 | Francis W. Davis, George Jessup | USA |
| All metal (aluminum) airplane | 1926 | William Stout | USA | |
| Life preserver | inflatable | 1928 | Peter Markus | USA |
| Bathysphere | deep submersible | 1928 | Otis Barton | USA |
| Jet engine | allows supersonic flight | 1928 | Frank Whittle | UK |
| Parking meter | automated timer | 1932 | Carl C. Magee | USA |
| Cat's eyes | road edge reflectors | 1934 | Percy Shaw | UK |
| Gyroscope for flight | rocket guidance, 2 axis controls | 1935 | Robert Goddard | USA |
| Volkswagen beetle | popular car | 1938 | Ferdinand Porsche | Germany |
| Ballistic missile | rocket propulsion | 1938 | Walter Dornberger | Germany |
| Jet flight | 1939 | Siegfried and Walter Gunter | Germany (33) | |
| Helicopter | single rotor | 1939 | Igor Sikorsky | USSR/USA |
| Jeep | general purpose military vehicle | 1940 | Karl Pabst | USA |
| V-2 rocket | first successful rocket/guided missile | 1942 | Wernher von Braun | Germany (32) |
| SCUBA gear | underwater personal travel (aqualung) | 1943 | Jacques Cousteau | France |
| V-1 guided flying bombs | doodlebugs | 1944 | Robert Lisserr | Germany |
| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile | 1947 | US Air Force | USA |
| Supersonic airplane | 1947 | US Air Force | USA | |
| Air bag | safety device | 1952 | John W. Hetrick | USA |
| Black box | flight recorder | 1953 | David Warren | Australia |
| Backhoe loader | dual duties | 1953 | Joseph Cyril Bamford | UK |
| Vertical take off and land plane | VTOL | 1954 | Hugh Graham Convay | USA |
| Jet boat | shallow water effective | 1954 | William Hamilton | New Zealand |
| Nautilus nuclear submarine | near limitless submersion | 1954 | US Navy | USA |
| Container ship | most of world exports | 1955 | White Pass and Yukon Co. | Canada (94) |
| Skateboard | urethane wheels, ball bearings | 1955, 1970 | Bill and Mark Richards | USA |
| Hovercraft | air cushion ride | 1955 | Christopher Sidney Cockerell, Will R. Bertelsen | UK |
| Trucking container | truck, rail, and water transport | 1956 | Malcolm McLean | USA (94) |
| Catalytic converter | decreases emissions | 1956 | Eugene Houdry | France |
| Sputnik satellites I and II | first satellites | 1957 | Sergey Korolev et al. | USSR |
| Portable nuclear generator | for space vehicles | 1959 | Jerome Morse | USA |
| Shoulder harness | car safety restraint | 1959 | Nils Bohlin, Volvo | Sweden |
| Weather satellite | improved forecasting | 1959 | Verner Suomi | Finland/USA |
| Nuclear aircraft carrier | 1960 | US Navy | USA | |
| Geostationary satellite | communications technology | 1964 | Harold Rosen, Hughes Aircraft | USA |
| Snowboard | 1965 | Sherman Poppin , Tom Sims | USA | |
| Ski-doo snowmobile | commercially successful | 1965 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier | Canada |
| Trailer hitch | 1966 | Ludwig Bacher | Canada | |
| Apollo 11 moon landing | 1969 | NASA | USA | |
| Car alarm | car security | 1970 | Charles E. Davis | USA |
| 747 jet airplane | 1970 | Boeing | USA | |
| Space station | 1971 | USSR | ||
| Anti lock brakes | safer stopping | 1971 | Bendix Co, Chrysler, Toyota | Japan/USA |
| Electronic ignition | improved car starting | 1972 | Charles Kettering | USA |
| Jet ski | stand up jet boat | 1973 | Clayton Jacobson | USA |
| Functional airbags | safety devices | 1973 | General Motors | USA |
| Tire pressure sensor | tire safety | 1974 | George E. Garcia | USA |
| Maglev train | magnetic levitation, superconducting | 1979 | Gordon Danby, James Powell | USA |
| Space shuttle | reusable spacecraft, silica ceramic tiles | 1981 | NASA | USA |
| Stealth fighter | low radar signal technology | 1982 | Denys Overholser, Petr Ufimtsev | USA/USSR |
| Self driving vehicle | autonomous | 1984 | Ernst Dickmanns, Mercedes | Germany |
| B-2 stealth bomber | exterior non-metal composite constructed | 1988 | Hal Markarian, Northrup Grummon | USA |
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Inventions from the INTERNET ERA Era
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Global positioning system satellites | military GPS | 1989 | Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, Ivan Getting | USA |
| Garmin LTD, ProNav | GPS navigation system | 1989 | Gary Burrell, Min Kao | USA |
| Hubble orbiting telescope | outer space telescope, no atmospheric interference | 1990 | NASA | USA |
| Dual hydraulic zero radius mower | controlled grass cutting | 1990 | Joseph Berrios | USA |
| Fuel cell bus | powered with fuel cells | 1993 | William Robert Grove, Francis Thomas Bacon | UK |
| Boeing 777 | completely computer designed and engineered | 1995 | Boeing | USA |
| Teledyne Ryan Tier II spy drone | aerial surveillance | 1995 | USA | USA |
| GPS guided munitions | exact co-ordinates | 1995 | USA | USA |
| Supercavitating torpedo | Shkval, Mach 1 | 1997 | Russia | Russia |
| Successful hybrid car | gas and electric | 1997 | Toyota Prius | Japan |
| Segway human transporting vehicle | single person transport | 2001 | Dean Kamen | USA |
| Magnetic levitation train | Maglev train, 260 MPH | 2002 | China | China |
| Scramjet engine | faster than jet | 2002 | UK/Australia | UK/Australia |
| Tesla roadster electric car | successful modern electric car | 2008 | Elon Musk et al. | USA |
| Boeing 787 Dreamliner | composite fuselage | 2009 | Boeing | USA |
| Hyperloop pneumatic tube | concept | 2013 | Elon Musk et al. | USA |
| Scramjet flight | 3000 MPH, Mach 5, unmanned | 2013 | USA | USA |
| Self parking BMW | partial autonomous driving | 2015 | BMW | Germany |
| Neopanamax container ship | size limit to traverses Panama Canal | 2018 | international | international |
| Russian hypersonic glide vehicle | Mach 27, 27x speed of sound | 2019 | Pr. Bladimir L. Fraishadt | Russia |
| Jet propulsion suit | over water for safety | 2019 | Richard Browning et al., Gravity Industries | UK |
| Fly boarding | across English Channel | 2019 | Frank Zapata | France |
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