Timeline of water transport
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This is a timeline of water transport.
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Time period | Development summary |
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20th century | The container revolution in shipping begins in the late 1960s.[1] |
21th century | There are more than 6,000 container vessels currently in service.[2] |
Full timeline
Year | Category | Event | Geographical location |
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45000 BC | 4The first humans arrive in Australia, presumably by boats and land bridge. | Australia | |
6000 BC | Egyptians already travel in reed boats.[3] | Egypt | |
4500 BC | Mesopotamians add sails to their boats.[3] | Irak | |
3500 | Oar-powered ships sail Eastern Mediterranean seas. | ||
2000 BC? | The Canal of the Pharaohs is built in Egypt.[4] | Egypt | |
1575 BC – 1520 BC | Dover Bronze Age Boat, the oldest known plank vessel, is built. | ||
542 BC | First written record of a trireme. | ||
247 BC | The Lighthouse of Alexandria is completed. | Egypt | |
214 BC | The Lingqu Canal is built. | China | |
c.200 AC | Junks are developed in China. | China | |
984 AC | Pound locks are used in China.[5][6][7] | China | |
c.1000 AC | Leif Ericson reaches North America. This is the first recorded crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. | ||
1088 | Chinese polymath Shen Kuo first describes a magnetic compass in his Dream Pool Essays.[8][9][10] | China | |
1620 | Dutch engineer Cornelis Drebbel builds the world's first submarine.[11][12][13] | Netherlands | |
1783 | French engineer Claude de Jouffroy constructs the first recorded steamboat.[14][15][16] | ||
1787 | American inventor John Fitch designs the first steamboat in the United States.[17][18][19] | United States | |
1803 | Scottish engineer William Symington's Charlotte Dundas, generally considered to be the world's first practical steamboat, makes its first voyage.[20][21][22] | ||
1804 | "Oliver Evans (claimed to have) demonstrated a steam-powered amphibious vehicle." | ||
1807 | The passenger steamboat is invented in the United States. "Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, the world's first commercially successful steamboat, makes her maiden voyage." | ||
1807 | French inventor Nicéphore Niépce patents his Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine.[23][24][25] | France | |
1819 | " SS Savannah, the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean partly under steam power, arrives at Liverpool, England from Savannah, Georgia." | ||
1861 | The Elizabeth Watt is generally credited for being the first ship to transport a cargo of oil across the Atlantic.[26] | ||
1861 | The USS Ice Boat (1861) launches as the first purpose-built icebreaker. | ||
1864 | Ictineo II, by Spanish engineer Narcís Monturiol, becomes the first submarine powered by an internal-combustion engine.[27][28][29] | Spain | |
1869 | The Suez Canal opens. | Egypt | |
1895 | The Kiel Canal opens. | Germany | |
1893 | The Corinth Canal opens. | Greece | |
1897 | The Turbinia is launched. It is the first vessel to be powered by a steam turbine. | ||
1911 | Glenn Curtiss builds an early hydroplane.[30][31][32] | United States | |
1911 | "Selandia launched, the first ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship." | ||
1914 | The Panama Canal opens.[33][34][35] | Panama | |
1915 | "The Luftkissengleitboot Hovercraft, the first hovering vehicle was created by Dagobert Müller. It could only travel on water." | ||
1918 | The HMS Furious (47) becomes the first aircraft carrier used in warfare. | ||
1955 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) launches as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. | United States | |
1957 | Malcom McLean's Gateway City, the first ever ship specifically designed to carry containers, makes its first voyage from New Jersey to Miami.[2] | United States | |
1966 | Sea-Land’s Fairland sails from the United States to the Netherlands with 236 containers on-board, in the first international container ship voyage.[2] | United States, Netherlands | |
1966 | Around 1% of countries have container ports.[2] | ||
1977 | Soviet icebreaker Arktika makes the first surface voyage to the North Pole.[36][37][38] | ||
1983 | 90% of countries have container ports, up from 1% in 1966.[2] | ||
1994 | The “Chunnel” opens, linking France and England with rail service and a tunnel for passenger cars. | ||
2006 | To meet increased demand for cruise ships, Freedom of the Seas is introduced and becomes the largest cruise liner ever. It has 18 decks and can carry 4,000 passengers. | ||
2009 | delivery of Royal Caribbean’s “Project Genesis,” which will be 43% larger than any other cruise ship, weighing 220,000 tons and carrying 5,400 passengers. |
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References
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- ↑ Growing Up with Science. Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
- ↑ Lienhard, John H. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines.
- ↑ Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad.
- ↑ Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I, index.
- ↑ Winterton, Wayne. Stories from History’S Dust Bin, Volume 1.
- ↑ Hughes, Stefan. Catchers of the Light: The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens.
- ↑ "Historical Development of the Pipeline as a Mode of Transportation" (PDF). gammathetaupsilon.org. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- ↑ Cairns, Lynne. Secret Fleets: Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base.
- ↑ Chaffin, Tom. The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy.
- ↑ San Diego: a California City. San Diego Historical Society.
- ↑ Flying Magazine May 1967.
- ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Aguirre, Robert. The Panama Canal.
- ↑ the panama canal in transition.
- ↑ LOIZILLON, GABRIEL J. THE BUNAU-VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL.
- ↑ Valsson, Trausti. How the World Will Change with Global Warming.
- ↑ Nuttall, Mark. Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
- ↑ Armstrong, Terence E.; Okhuizen, Edwin; Bulatov, V. N.; Nielsen, Jens Petter. Historical and Current Uses of the Northern Sea Route: ] pt. 4. the administration of the northern sea route (1917-1991).