The Suez Canal was completed about a year before the first automobile was created. That, along with the underground metro systems built in various European coun

The Suez Canal was completed about a year before the first automobile was created. That, along with the underground metro systems built in various European countries at the time, are amazing feats of engineering. (The London underground was operational in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon "using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives").