Wired — Transport Machines
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Transport Machines
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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