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| 1896 |
| | | Otto Lilienthal dies when a wing fractures on his glider and he crashes from a height of 17 metres | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet | |
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Discovery Museum, Tyne and Wear
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| 1898 |
| | | Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation | |
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| 1902 |
| | | French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice | |
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| 1902 |
| | | William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France | |
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| 1903 |
| | | William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Britain's Automobile Association is founded, with patrol-men on bicycles to assist drivers | |
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