Internet — Transport Machines
InventTable — INTERNET ERA — Transport Machines
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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