Key |
Yr. |
Name |
Name |
Invention, Discovery, Event |
| Air | 1852 | Giffard | P-Henri | Steam powered airship dirigible Fr. |
| Air | 1871 | Lilienthal | Otto | Bird flight study for airplane with engine |
| Air | 1877 | Forlanni | Enrico | Steam helicopter rises to 45 ft for 1 minute, Lilienthal gliders, Thornycroft air cushion boat |
| Air | 1895 | Wilson | Charles | Cloud chamber, weather, nuclear applications later |
| Air | 1896 | Schwarz | David | Croatian aluminum frame, sheeting airship, hydrogen lift, Zeppelin buys rights |
| Air | 1896 | Langley | Samuel | Steam airplane, 1.2 km on Potomac before crash |
| Air | 1901 | Wright | Brothers | First glider, Lilienthal glider advances in years before |
| Air | 1903 | Wright | Brothers | Kitty Hawk Dec 17, 12 hp 59 second flight |
| Air | 1905 | Voissin | Babriel | Airplane factory Fr |
| Air | 1914 | Sperry | Elmer | Autopilot, not used for 20 years |
| Air | 1914 | Jannus | Tony | Airline Tampa-St.Pete |
| Air | 1915 | Junker | Germany | All metal, cantilevered wings to fuelage, Fokker adds timed machine gun |
| Air | 1923 | Cierva | Juan | P-autogiro concept on crash in UK |
| Air | 1929 | Griffith | A.A. | Gas turbine for airplanes |
| Air | 1930 | Whittle | Frank | Patens jet engine, 11 yrs to flight |
| Air | 1931 | Winkler | Johannes | Liquid propelled rocket |
| Air | 1933 | Post | Wiley | Around world solo flight 7 days, 19 hours |
| Air | 1934 | von Braun | Werner | Alcohol and liquid oxygen rocket |
| Air | 1935 | Watson-Watt | Robert | Radar experiments |
| Air | 1936 | Focke | Heinrich | Practical helicopter, angle change of rotor for back or forward |
| Air | 1937 | Whittle | Griffith | Working jet engine, also Hans Pabst von Ohain in Germany |
| Air | 1939 | Sikorsky | Igor | Mass production helicopter |
| Air | 1942 | UK | AirForce | Fiberglass in radar antenna domes, glass fibers in polyester resin |
| Air | 1942 | Braun | Werner | V2 rocket |
| Air | 1947 | Yaeger | Chuck | Supersonic flight |
| Air | 1949 | deHaviland | Geoffrey | Designed Comet 1st jet passenger introduced by UK, material fatigue crashes in 2 years |
| Air | 1957 | Korolev | Sergei | Sputnik Nov 3 with dog Laika, lives for 10 days |
| Air | 1961 | Gagarin | Shepard | USSR orbits earth, US suborbital, Apollo under Braun, JKF kills nuclear bomber on cost |
| Air | 1969 | Concorde | Supersonic air travel, USSR in 1968, Aug men on moon | |
| Air | 1977 | McacCready | Paul | Gossamer Condor man powered airplane |
| Air | 1986 | Airbus | A320 replaces some hydraulic controls with electronic and some computer rather than pilot decisions | |
| Air | 1989 | US | AirForce | Stealth Bomber B-2 invisible to Radar |
| Air | 1991 | Bendix | KingAirAvionics | Collision avoidance ordering evasive action if needed |
| Air | 2001 | USSR | Mir space station abandoned after 15 yrs, plunges into Pacific | |
| Road | 1815 | McAdam | John | Crushed rock for road paving, not tar or asphalt |
| Road | 1818 | Sauerbronn | Karl | Primitive steerable bicycle, padded seat |
| Road | 1831 | Hancock | Walter | Steam powered 10 seat bus London-Stratford |
| Road | 1839 | MacMillan | Kirk | Velocipede with treadles and driving rods, no rider feet on ground |
| Road | 1845 | Thomson | Robert | Invents and patents uneconomic air filled rubber tire |
| Road | 1860 | Lenoir | Joseph | 2 stroke internal combustion single cylinder electric ignition, coal gas fuel |
| Road | 1861 | Michaux | Pierre | Boneshaker bicycle with pedals on front wheel and cranks |
| Road | 1863 | Lenoir | Jean | Internal combustion car 3mph |
| Road | 1870 | Hock | Julius | Gasoline, not coal gas internal combustion |
| Road | 1872 | Brayton | George | RI 2 stroke internal combustion at 1876 fair inspires Otto 4 stroke |
| Road | 1876 | Lawson | John | Safety bicyble with power from pedals to back wheel, equal size with front |
| Road | 1885 | Daimler | Gottlieb | Motorbike |
| Road | 1885 | Karl | Benz | Tricycle auto |
| Road | 1886 | Daimler | Maybach | Four wheeled auto |
| Road | 1888 | Dunlop | John | Pneumatic tires for bumpy roads, factory |
| Road | 1893 | Maybach | Wilhelm | Float feed carburetor to mix gas/air for explosive power in cylinder |
| Road | 1902 | Renault | Louis | Drum brake, UK Lanchester disk brake better heat disperse |
| Road | 1902 | Wilkinson | John | Air cooled auot engine |
| Road | 1904 | Holt | Benjamin | Tracked vehicle |
| Road | 1911 | Kettering | Charles | Auto self starter |
| Road | 1911 | MacCarroll | June | White line for center, mandated by CA 1928 |
| Road | 1913 | Ford | Henry | Model T auto Assembly line |
| Road | 1914 | Cleveland | Ohio | Red green traffic lights |
| Road | 1915 | UK | Army | Tank to overcome German Barbed wire |
| Road | 1915 | Fruehaul | August | Tractor trailor for trucks |
| Road | 1929 | Wankel | Felix | Rotary internal combustion engine, commercial in 1950's |
| Road | 1930 | Dicksee | Cedric | Diesel for trucks, autos |
| Road | 1935 | Magee | Carl | Parking meters in Oklahoma City |
| Road | 1935 | Fuller | Buckminster | Dymaxion 3 wheel auto, streamlined, max efficiency |
| Road | 1936 | Porsche | Ferdinand | Volkswagen Beetle, overtakes 15 million Model T in 1972 |
| Road | 1940 | PA | Lazlo | Penn turnpike opens, LA Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena) start of freeways |
| Road | 1948 | GM | Cadallic tailfins, style and Studebaker/Chrysler streamline extension | |
| Road | 1950 | Rolls Royce | Gas turbine auto | |
| Road | 1962 | Devol | Georg | Unimation markets 1st industrial robot |
| Road | 1980 | St. Gotthard | Tunnel | 10.2 mi longest tunnel, Alps Zurich to Italy |