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| c. 1660 |
| | | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | Young noblemen, particularly from Britain, visit Italy on the Grand Tour | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The first Conestoga wagons are acquired by George Washington for an expedition through the Alleghenies | |
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1802 |
| | | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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