The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio announced, after more three years of engineering , the development of a tubeless tire. After successful testing, Goodrich
won patents for the new tires various features in 1952. Within three years ,the
tubeless tire came standard on most new automobiles.

The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869.

The "First Transcontinental Railroad" is a railroad line across the U.S. linking Omaha, Nebraska with Sacramento, California in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the Eastern United States with California on the Pacific coast. Ceremonially completed on May 10, 1869, at the famous " golden spike" event at Promontory Summit, Utah, it
created a nation-wide mechanized transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.

One of four gold-plated spikes driven
at the completion ceremony.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, known as Amtrak is a U.S federal government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide
intercity passenger train service in the United States. It is headquartered at Union
Station in Washington, D.C. It operates passenger service on 21,000 miles of track primarily owned by freight railroads connecting 500 destinations in 46 states and
three Canadian provinces.

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Construction began on the Suez Canal in 1859, and took 10 years and an estimated $100 million to complete. Much of the work was done by tens of thousands of Egyptian laborers, who dug the canal with their bare hands. It was opened to shipping traffic in November 1869, and soon developed into a critical channel for international trade.

Engraving showing construction trains at El Guisr on the Suez Canal