Time Line.(Chronology)

1906

-- Hepburn Act gives ICC maximum ratemaking authority

1907

-- The Traffic Information Bureau of Chicago and Washington publishes first issue of Traffic World, then known as The Traffic Bulletin, on April 13

-- United Parcel Service, then known as American Messenger Co., founded

-- National Industrial Traffic (later Transportation) League founded

1908

-- Henry Ford rolls out first Model T

-- Federal Employers Liability Act permits injured rail workers to sue for damages

1910

-- Mann-Elkins Act gives ICC authority to suspend and regulate rates

-- Magazine renamed The Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin

1912

-- First mail carried by plane

-- Titanic sinks, with loss of 1,513 lives

-- Panama Canal Act regulates rail-water interchanges

1913

-- Magazine renamed The Traffic World

-- Type composing machines introduced

1914

-- Clayton Act expands antitrust restrictions

-- Henry Palmer becomes editor of The Traffic World

-- Radio message is sent to an airplane

-- Panama Canal opens to shipping

1915

-- Wireless radio service connects U.S. and Japan

-- German U-boat sinks Lusitania, killing 1,198

1916

-- Pacific Aero Products Co., later Boeing, founded

-- Shipping Act creates Federal Maritime Commission and regulates ocean shipping

-- Good Roads Act promotes highway construction

1917

-- U.S. enters World War I

1918

-- First regular airmail service: Washington to New York

-- New England Motor Freight founded in Paterson, N.J.

1919

-- Boeing launches first commercial airplane, the B-1 mail plane

-- Flip-flop circuit invented; will help computers to count

1920

-- Merchant Marine (Jones) Act restricts domestic water transport to U.S. vessels

-- Davis Douglas Co., later Douglas Aircraft, founded

-- First cross-country

airmail flight

1921

-- Autobahn opened in Germany

-- Federal Highway Act promotes highway …