Timeline / 1800 to After 1930 / / GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Date Country Theme

1847 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The construction of a road to link Wallachia and , crossing through the Pass in the , is begun during the reign of Prince Gheorghe Bibescu.

1853 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

14 February: installation of the first electric telegraph lines in the Romanian territories, connecting Ia#i with Cern#u#i.

1854 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

20 August: inauguration of the first railway of Romania, linking Bazia# to Oravi#a (in Banat). Used at first to transport coal, it was opened for passenger transportation in 1856. In the United Principalities, the first railway line, built by the British company J.T. Barkley and J. Staniforth, was inaugurated 31 October 1869.

1864 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

4 August: establishment of the General Directorate of the Post and the Telegraph in the United Principalities.

1869 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Timi#oara is the first city in Romania to use horse-drawn trams for public transportation. In they are introduced in 1871.

1869 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Installation of the first public telephone line in Romania (in Bucharest between the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Central Post Office).

1884 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The inauguration of the first railway line (Buz#u–M#r##e#ti) designed and built by Romanian engineers.

1895 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

9 December: the first electric tramway is introduced in Bucharest.

1895 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The Romanian Maritime Service, the first civil naval institution of Romania, is founded. It is intended to buy and build ships and it ensures passenger and freight transportation on the route Br#ila–Constan#a–Istanbul, later extended to Alexandria and to ports on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean: Pireu, Smyrna, Haifa and Beirut. Date Country Theme

1906 Romania Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

18 March: Romanian pilot and inventor Traian Vuia tests in France (near Paris) his heavier-than-air, fully self-propelled, fixed-wing aircraft. The plane leaves the ground and flies at a height of 1 m for a distance of about 12 m, but the engine cuts out and it comes down.