3000 BC 3000 BC 0 0 900 900 1700 1700 1850 1850 1870 1870 Sail, Rocket, Steamship: The Ordering Claim If a powered ship is a hull with a heat engine, gunpowder rocketry reaches maturity six to nine centuries before the ship does. event — click for its reference date being verified Sail Rocket Steam ship 3000 BC · Sail3000 BCSail 1571–1862 · Age of Sail1571–1862Age of Sail 904 · Fire arrows; true rockets 1232904Fire arrows; truerockets 1232 1377 · Juhwa rockets; hwacha 14511377Juhwa rockets;hwacha 1451 50 · Hero's aeolipile50Hero's aeolipile 1712 · Newcomen engine — needed to bridge Hero to steamboat1712Newcomen engine 1783 · Pyroscaphe; Fitch 17871783Pyroscaphe; Fitch1787 1807 · Fulton's commercial steamboat — commercial success marker1807Fulton'scommercialsteamboat 1838 · Seagoing steamship (heat engine at sea)1838Seagoing steamship(heat engine atsea) Fulton's Clermont, 1807 Fulton Great Western, 1838 sail precedes the rocket by ~3,900 years gunpowder rocketry precedes the steamship by 6–9 centuries
3000 BC 3000 BC 0 0 900 900 1700 1700 1850 1850 1870 1870 Sail, Rocket, Steamship: The Ordering Claim If a powered ship is a hull with a heat engine, gunpowder rocketry reaches maturity six to nine centuries before the ship does. event — click for its reference date being verified Sail Rocket Steam ship 3000 BC · Sail3000 BCSail 1571–1862 · Age of Sail1571–1862Age of Sail 904 · Fire arrows; true rockets 1232904Fire arrows; truerockets 1232 1377 · Juhwa rockets; hwacha 14511377Juhwa rockets;hwacha 1451 50 · Hero's aeolipile50Hero's aeolipile 1712 · Newcomen engine — needed to bridge Hero to steamboat1712Newcomen engine 1783 · Pyroscaphe; Fitch 17871783Pyroscaphe; Fitch1787 1807 · Fulton's commercial steamboat — commercial success marker1807Fulton'scommercialsteamboat 1838 · Seagoing steamship (heat engine at sea)1838Seagoing steamship(heat engine atsea) Fulton's Clermont, 1807 Fulton Great Western, 1838 sail precedes the rocket by ~3,900 years gunpowder rocketry precedes the steamship by 6–9 centuries