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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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| c. 1813 |
| | | William Hedley's Puffing Billy, the first steam locomotive running on smooth rails, goes to work at Wylam colliery | |
|  | Wylam Dilly
Royal Museum of Scotland
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| 1814 |
| | | The Times, England's oldest daily newspaper, becomes the first to print on a steam press | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1838 |
| | | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade | |
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| 1852 |
| | | US entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt conveys passengers across the American continent through Nicaragua by steamship and horse and carriage | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The Metropolitan Railway, the world's first to go underground, opens in London using steam trains between Paddington and Farringdon Street | |
|  | Baker Street station on the new underground
London's Transport Museum
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