William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year

Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia

Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year.

English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham

The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy

The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania

Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce build their most famous car, the Silver Ghost, in the factory they have set up in Derby

The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions

The first Model T Ford rolls off the production line at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit

Louis Blériot is the first to fly across the English Channel, winning the £1000 prize offered by the Daily Mail

Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back

Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland provides the first commercial air service for passengers

The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars

The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator

An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America

The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I

William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company

The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland

Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems

British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin'

Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer

US aviator Charles Lindbergh, in his single-engine plane Spirit of St Louis, flies solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris

US explorer Richard E. Byrd and two companions make the first flight over the South Pole, in a Ford Tri-Motor