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| 1879 |
| | | A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan | |
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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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| 1890 |
| | | The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell | |
|  | A carriage on the first 'tube'
London's Transport Museum
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| 1891 |
| | | Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway | |
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| 1894 |
| | | London's Tower Bridge raises its roadway for the first time to let a ship pass up the Thames | |
|  | Tower Bridge, by C.F. Kell, c.1894
Guildhall Library
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| 1896 |
| | | US engineer Henry Ford test drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home | |
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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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