Navigation and transport
- Traverse board Traditional nautical practice; no single originator · 1571 or earlier
- Le Nautonier isogonic map Guillaume Le Nautonier · 1603
- Strip map John Ogilby; earlier Matthew Paris and the Tabula Peutingeriana · 1675
- Isogonic chart Edmond Halley · 1701
- Gnomonic great-circle chart Navigational practice; projection attributed to antiquity · 1800s
- Sumner line Thomas Hubbard Sumner · 1837
- Train graph (time-distance diagram) Ibry (attrib.); popularised by Marey · 1840s/1878
- Wind and current chart (pilot chart) Matthew Fontaine Maury · 1847
- Pilot-chart wind rose US Navy Hydrographic Office · 1883
- Routing string map American sales practice; described by Brinton and Karsten · 1914-1923
- Diagrammatic transit map Harry Beck · 1933
- E6B wind triangle computer Philip Dalton · 1937
- Maneuvering board US Navy · WWII era
- Traffic flow profile relief map US Public Roads Administration · 1941
- Desire line map Chicago Area Transportation Study; no single originator · 1959
- Porkchop plot JPL mission design practice · 1960s
- Globus IMP navigation indicator Soviet spacecraft instrumentation · 1961