Transport Inventions and Discoveries
| Invention | Who invented it? | When was it invented? |
|---|---|---|
| Aeroplane (controlled, engine powered flight) | Orville & Wilbur Wright | 1903 |
| Airbag (automobile) | Arnold Kent (idea) developed by U.S. automotive engineers | 1961 |
| Airship | Henri Giffard | 1852 |
| Automobile (internal-combustion gasoline-powered) | Siegfried Marcus (experimental) Karl Benz | c1864 1885 (1st patent issued for gas-fuelled car) |
| Balloon (hot air) | Joseph-Michel & Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier | 1783 |
| Bicycle (pedal) | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | 1839 |
| Diesel engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1892 (patent for proposed engine) |
| Engine, internal combustion (coal gas fuelled) | Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir | 1859 1860 (patent) |
| Engine, internal combustion (gunpowder-fuelled) | Christiaan Huygens | 1680 |
| Fire-engine | Anthony Blatner | 1518 |
| Helicopter (first manned vertical lift-off) | Louis & Jacques Breguet | 1907 |
| Hovercraft | Christopher Sydney Cockerell | 1956 |
| Jet engine | Frank Whittle | 1930 (patent) |
| Mass production assembly line | Henry Ford | 1908 |
| Motorcar (first self-propelled vehicle, steam engine) | Nicholas Cugnot | 1769 |
| Motorcycle (petrol engine) | Gottleib Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach | 1885 |
| Penny Farthing bicycle | James Starley | 1870 |
| Railway (first passenger steam) | George Stephenson | 1825 |
| Rocket (liquid-fuelled) | Konstantin Tsolkovsky (theory) Robert Goddard (first launch) | 1903 1926 |
| Seaplane | Henri Fabre | 1910 |
| Seat belts, 3 point (lap and shoulder) | Nils Bohlin (idea) Volvo (production) |
1959 |
| Spaceflight (manned) | Yuri Gagarin (U.S.S.R.) | 1951 |
| Steam locomotive | Richard Trevithick | 1804 |
| Subway | Charles Pearson (idea) | 1863 |
| Tyre (pneumatic, with valve, for bicycle) | John Dunlop | 1888 |