Key |
Yr. |
Name |
Name |
Invention, Discovery, Event |
| Boat | 1770 | Bushnell | P-Turtle | Hand operated, 1 man sub, attaches bomb to ship, moves via propeller innovation |
| Boat | 1787 | Fitch | P-2ndSteam | Side paddles, then back forth paddles at back, later reciprocal steam and paddlewheel |
| Boat | 1797 | Livingston | Robert | Samuel Morey to NJ for fast steamboats. Side paddle wheel fails for Morey, not for Fulton |
| Boat | 1807 | Fulton | P-Robert | Clermont, pair paddlewheels at mid mast, sidewheeler |
| Boat | 1837 | Bruenel | I | Builds Great Western, regular steam Atlantic crossing, sufficient coal |
| Boat | 1861 | Ericsson | John | Metal hull Monitor after metal armored Merrimack |
| Boat | 1897 | Ship | Turbine | Turbina success converted Navy to turbine ships, Mauretania by 1907 |
| Boat | 1904 | Fessenden | Reginald | Depth finder using electromagnetic waves |
| Boat | 1905 | Submarine | German | U Boat |
| Boat | 1906 | Forlanini | Enrico | Hydrofoil wings to elevate hull reduce drag |
| Boat | 1908 | Sperry | Elmer | Gyrostabilization patented reduce roll by tilt vertical axis of spinning gyroscope |
| Boat | 1908 | Anschultz-Kaempfe | Herman | Gyroscopic compass for true north |
| Boat | 1915 | Langevin | Paul | Sonar to detect icebergs |
| Boat | 1918 | Bell | Alexander | Hydrofoil reinvented |
| Boat | 1943 | Cousteau | Gagnan | Aqualung, compressed air pressure control valve |
| Boat | 1948 | Piccard | Auguste | Bathyscaphe for deep underwater exploration |
| Boat | 1954 | Rickover | Hyman | USS Nautilus atomic powered submarine |
| Boat | 1954 | MacLean | Malcolm | Containerization begins from NY to Houston |
| Boat | 1955 | Cockerell | Christopher | Hovercraft |
| Boat | 1956 | MacLean | Malcolm | Containerships inaugurated |
| Boat | 1959 | US | Canada | St. Lawerence Seaway opens, 27 ft depth double 1803 Canada original |
| Canal | 1450 | Italy | Locks from China like gunpower, paper before, canal boom start | |
| Canal | 1761 | Egerton | Francis | Brit hires surveyor James Brindley, coal via canal from Worsley estate to Manchester |
| Canal | 1792 | Britain | Peak as 32 canal projects compete for capital, railroads next | |
| Canal | 1825 | Clinton | DeWitt | Erie canal opened, 364 mi, start 1817 |
| Canal | 1869 | Suez | Panama | Suez in 1869 to Aida, Panama in 1914 after French failure, Goethals health, Stevens Culebra Cut |
| Canal | 1869 | Lesseps | Ferdinand | Suez completed ground level through desert from Med to Red seas |
| Canal | 1880 | Lesseps | Ferdinand | Fr attempt in Panama |
| Canal | 1914 | Goethals | George | Panma Canal Aug 14, 51.2 mi, 87 ft high, Culebra cutGatun L |
| Railroad | 1770 | Cugnot | Joseph | Steam carriage, steam power to single front wheel, no tracks, abandoned, no political support |
| Railroad | 1801 | Treviak | Richard | Steam powered carriage, 4 day success, then careless fire due to boiler water evaporation |
| Railroad | 1807 | F-Rail,Trains | Locomotives | Summary |
| Railroad | 1825 | Stephenson | George | First passenger and freight, Stockton & Darlington RR |
| Railroad | 1830 | Stephenson | P-George | Rocket engine selected, rail boom start |
| Railroad | 1836 | F-US | Summary | Contrast from UK |
| Railroad | 1864 | Pullman | George | Sleeping car few years after dining cars |
| Railroad | 1867 | Westinghouse | George | Air brake, simultaneous car braking, automatic |
| Railroad | 1869 | CP | UP | Promentory Point link of transcontinental railroad Big 4 plus Durant |
| Railroad | 1879 | Siemens | Werner | Electric railway in Berlin, trolley in suburb |
| Railroad | 1904 | TransSiberian | Russia | Started 1891 |
| Railroad | 1912 | Sulzer | Swiss | Diesel locomotive |
| Railroad | 1964 | Tokyo | Osaka | High speed bullet train |
| Railroad | 1981 | TGV | France | 236 mph record |
| Railroad | 2003 | China | Maglev Shanghai to airport 20 mi, 250 mph, also first astronaut 14 orbits |