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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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| 1855 |
| | | The Panama Railroad company completes a line between the Atlantic and the Pacific, providing America's first transcontinental link | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Brunel dies just before the maiden voyage of his gigantic final project, the luxury liner The Great Eastern | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Mail is carried by horse relay from Missouri to California, travelling 2000 miles in ten days in the service known as the Pony Express | |
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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 | |
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London's Transport Museum
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| 1869 |
| | | The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet at Promontory Summit in Utah, completing the first transcontinental line | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The most famous of the three-masted tea-clippers, the Cutty Sark is launched at Dumbarton for service to and from China | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile | |
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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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