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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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| 1897 |
| | | Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet | |
|  | The Turbinia
Discovery Museum, Tyne and Wear
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| 1902 |
| | | French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, inspired by the sounds of a steam train, has its first performance in Paris | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Partial meltdown of a US nuclear power station at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, spreads radioactive steam over a large surrounding area | |
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