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| 1886 |
| | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1890 |
| | A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland | |
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| 1890 |
| | The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell | |
| | A carriage on the first 'tube' London's Transport Museum
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| 1891 |
| | Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway | |
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| 1891 |
| | German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieves the first of many guided flights in a glider, from a hill near Potsdam | |
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| 1895 |
| | Joshua Slocum sails from Boston in his sloop Spray for his attempt at a solo circumnavigation of the world | |
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| 1896 |
| | US engineer Henry Ford test drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home | |
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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 | |
| | The Turbinia 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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