page_title: Timeline of transportation technology
section_title: Late 20th Century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of transportation technology / 20th century / Late 20th Century
caption_attribution_description: English: 0 series shinkansen near Yurakucho Station inTokyo日本語: 0系新幹線 Flickr Tags:&#x20;tokyo&#x20;station&#x20;bahnhof&#x20;japan&#x20;train&#x20;railroad&#x20;bullet train&#x20;tokaido line&#x20;new tokaido line&#x20;high speed&#x20;shinkansen&#x20;tokaido&#x20;kyoto&#x20;1967.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of transportation technology and technological developments in the culture of transportation.
context_section_description: 1950 - First Heritage railway.
  1952 - Supramar launched the first commercial high-speed craft, a hydrofoil.
  1952 - de Havilland Comet first commercial jet air liner.
  1955 – First nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched.
  1957
  Sputnik 1 – First artificial satellite to be launched into orbit.
  Gateway City – World's first purpose-built container ship, enters service.
  First flight of the Boeing 707 – First commercially successful jet airliner.
  1959 - The first modern fuel cell vehicle was a modified Allis-Chalmers farm tractor, fitted with a 15 kilowatt fuel cell, around 1959.
  1961 – Vostok 1, first crewed space mission, designed by Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, makes two orbits around the Earth with Yuri Gagarin.
  1962 - The first ascending-gliding parachute was developed by Pierre-Marcel Lemoigne in 1962.
  1964 - Shinkansen first high-speed rail.
  1966 - Caspian Sea Monster ground effect vehicle introduced.
  1967 - Automatic train operation introduced on London Underground.
  1968 - Space hopper invented.
  1969
  First flight of the Boeing 747 – First commercial widebody airliner.
  NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race – Makes the first crewed Moon landing a reality.
  Lolo ball invented.
  1971 – Salyut 1, first space station, launched by Soviet Union.
  1973 - Stadtbahnwagen B hybrid tram-train on heavy rail tracks developed. First modern premetro since interurbans.
  1975 – Morgantown PRT, first Personal Rapid Transit system to be installed.
  1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
  1977 - The first semi-automated car was developed in 1977, by Japan's Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, which required specially marked streets.
  1981 – Maiden flight of the Space Shuttle.
  1981 - The first fully Automated guideway transit driverless people mover train technology introduced on Port Island Line, Japan.
  1983 - First Automated guideway transit driverless metro, and one of the first fully driverless train technologies, Véhicule Automatique Léger introduced in Lille Metro, France.
  1984 - First commercial maglev, albeit low-speed opens in Birmingham.
  1985 - Sinclair C5, the first mass-produced electric battery velomobile launched.
  1989 - Snakeboard invented.
  1990 - First transport simulation computer game Railroad Tycoon released.
  1990 - ADtranz low floor tram world's first completely low-floor tram introduced.
  1994 – Channel Tunnel opens.
  1994 - Modern kickbike invented in Finland.
  1997 – First Maglev train prototypes are tested in Japan.
  1998 - Honda Raccoon Compo, first folding electric bicycle in Japan.
  1999 - Trikke (wiggle scooter) invented.
  2000 - Honda Step Compo, first folding electric bicycle internationally available.
caption: A 0 series Shinkansen high-speed rail set in Tokyo, May 1967
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