Carbondale / Cincinnati / Sheepshead / San Francisco / Bristol / Clermont / Omaha / Detroit / St. Petersburg / Honesdale / Ellicott City / Quincy / Connecting Detroit / Buenos Aires / St. Louis / Denver / Bicycle James Starley / Seattle / Vandalia / Boston / Savannah / Glasgow / Tampa / Windsor / Montreal / Trappes / Paris / Salt Lake City / Jefferson City / New York City / Sacramento / Wheeling / Pasadena / Baltimore / New York / Bellefontaine / Miami / Netphener / Orville / /
Company
Suez / Alleghany / Greyhound / Benoist Airline / Daimler / Thomas Benoist / Union Pacific Companies / Pan Am Airways / Ford Motor Company / Paul Cornu / John Philip Holland / Netphener / Siemens / Delaware & Hudson Canal Company / Ogden / Central Pacific / Dirigible / Pan American / Commercial U.S. Rail Company / Boeing / In 1845 Asa / /
Continent
America / South America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Scotland / Denmark / Italy / Argentina / Hungary / France / Japan / Martinique / Panama / Canada / Germany / Sweden / Belgium / Russia / United States / Ireland / /
Event
Natural Disaster / M&A / /
Facility
Clyde Canal / Boston Subway / St. Claire River Tunnel / Boston’s subway / Iron Bridge / Reinforced Concrete Bridge / Underwater Tunnel / Moffat Tunnel / Staple Bend Tunnel / New York City Subway / Canal System / Ohio Bridge / The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel / Rock Island Bridge / Tunnel Boring Machine / Multipurpose Bridge / Bunker Hill Monument / *Cast-Iron Bridge / The Sault Ste. Marie Canal / Holland Tunnel / Suez Canal / Modern Airport / The Eads Bridge / U.S. airport / Dunlap Creek’s Bridge / Soo Canal / Ellicott’s Mill / West Point Foundry / port of Baltimore / Dixie Highway / John A. Roebling Bridge / The St. Claire River Tunnel / *Erie Canal / port of Savannah / Alvord Lake Bridge / New York City’s harbor / Cleveland Hopkins Airport / Panama Canal / South Carolina port / Brooklyn Bridge / Golden Gate Bridge / Cincinnati Suspension Bridge / Detroit-Windsor Tunnel / Eads Bridge / *Sault Sainte Marie Canal / London Subway / The Panama Canal / Erie Canal / The Holland Tunnel / /
Holiday
Christmas Eve / /
IndustryTerm
rail transportation / travel time / personal transportation / steel arches / ice-cooled railroad car / wealthy manufacturer / Steel reinforcing bars / all-metal airplanes / electricity / air conditioning systems / interstate transportation / electric car / transportation / cabinet-maker turned building contractor / rail travel experience / agricultural products / airline / bicycle maker / chemical mix / steel / automobile-manufacturing firms / all-metal planes / transportation milestones / energy prices / rubber treads / cast steel / rubber inner tubes / gas engine / cement production / /
MarketIndex
CAC 40 / /
MusicGroup
Superior / Great Lakes / /
NaturalFeature
Panama Canal / Rocky Mountains / Lake Erie / Neponset River / Ohio River / Dunlap Creek / West Coast / Missouri River / Suez Canal / Marys River / Mississippi River / Hudson River / Lake Superior / Lehigh River / Pacific Oceans / River Steamboat / Delaware River / Great Lakes / Pacific coast / Tampa Bay / Alleghany Mountains / /
Organization
Royal Air Force / United States Navy / French Army / Passenger Service in U.S. / German military / Council for Economic Education / Steamboat Service / Navy / *Passenger Rail Service in U.S. / Transcontinental Bus Service / Lincoln Highway Association / Congress / Federal Government / /
Person
Ransom Olds / Hans Christian Ørsted / Ferdinand von Zeppelin / Robert William Thomson / Ernest L Ransome / Dixie Highway Carl Fisher / George W. Bartholomew / George Cayley / William Symington / George Pullman / Abraham Darby / Henry Ford / Henry Bessemer / Charlotte Douglas Steamboat / Charles Renard / Karl Benz / Robert Davidson / Wilbur Wright / Glenn Curtiss / Robert Anderson / Henri Fabre / Jan Bahyl / Philip E Thomas / Alice Ramsey / Winnie Mae / Rudolf Diesel / Arthur Krebst / Carl Fisher / James Watt / Sibrand Acker Stratingh / Karl Friedrich Meerwein / Jacques Étienne Montgolfier / Paul Comu / Alfred Nobel / Scotsmen Robert Davidson / Sylvester Howard Roper / Robert Fulton / John Fitch / John Alcock / Acker Stratingh / Clyde Coleman / David Bushness / Leo Hendrik Baekeland / Alberto Santos-Dumont / Etienne Lenoir / John Boyd Dunlop / Raúl Pateras de Pescara / Joseph Michel / Carl Wickman / Charles Kettering / Thomas Davenport / Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Harold Garry / Lincoln Highway Carl Fisher / Robert Goddard / Jean-Louis Lambot / Rail Bridge / Horatio Nelson Jackson / James Rumsey / Orville / George Stephenson / Charles Lindbergh / Arthur Krebs / Arthur Whitten / Eugene Ely / Richard Delafield / John W. Alcock / George Westinghouse / Amelia Earhart / Thomas English / Wilhelm Maybach / Robert Livingston / Peter Cooper / Cal Rogers / Thomas Dundas / Christopher Becker / Soo Locks / Isambard Kingdom / Jim Thorpe / Frederick Upham Adams / George Brown / Cal Rodgers / Juan Trippe / Alessandro Volta / John Phillip Holland / A.C. Read / Ernst Werner von Siemens / Charleston / Jules Henri Giffard / Richard Trevithick / Arthur Whitten Brown / /
Position
poor farmer / Captain / Professor / Lieutenant / engineer / turned building contractor / pilot / assistant / locomotive engineer for the first time / locomotive engineer / racer / railway engineer / Lieutenant Commander / author / /
Product
Curtiss NC / Douglas DC-2 / Vickers Vimy / S-40 / Canard / biplane / Swift / Spirit of St. Louis / Douglas World Cruiser / Franklin Swift / Vega / Colorado / Cincinnati Suspension / Ford Trimotor / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Utah / South Carolina / California / Colorado / Kentucky / New Jersey / Illinois / Newfoundland / Pennsylvania / South / Iowa / Massachusetts / Nebraska / West Virginia / Alaska / New York / Connecticut / Washington / Michigan / Missouri / Mississippi / Maryland / Florida / North Carolina / /
Region
eastern Canada / western New York / Central America / West Coast / West Virginia / /
TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES The following is a list of transportation milestones that have occurred since the birth of our nation. Red type indicates milestones for which a poster has been prepared in advance for your use.