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| 1176 |
| | | Construction begins on London Bridge, the first stone bridge to be built across a tidal waterway | |
|  | 'Old London Bridge 1745', watercolour by Dodd
Guildhall Library
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| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The first modern lock gates are installed on a canal in Milan, probably designed by Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The Inca empire has about 25,000 miles of well-serviced roads, designed for caravans of llamas | |
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| 1642 |
| | | The Briare canal, joining the Seine to the Loire, has a staircase of six consecutive locks | |
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| c. 1660 |
| | | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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| 1681 |
| | | The Canal du Midi is completed in France, including at one point a 160-metre tunnel through high ground | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | | Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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