A Sense of Time

By 20080203
  • 3400 BCE

    Writing

    Writing
  • 2540 BCE

    The Great Pyramid

  • 848 BCE

    Gunpowder

  • 476 BCE

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • 323 BCE

    Death of Alexander the Great

  • 5 BCE

    Birth of Christ

  • 610

    Islam Founded

  • 1436

    Printing Press (Gutenberg)

  • 1492

    Columbus sails to West Indies

  • Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

  • American Independence

    American Independence

  • Steam Locomotive

  • Telephone

  • U.S. Civil War Ends

  • Typewriter

    Typewriter

  • Phonograph

  • Lightbulb

  • Coca-Cola

    Coca-Cola

  • Sputnik Launched

  • Diesel Engine (Patent Year)

  • Wright Brothers Flight

  • Ford's Model T

    Ford's Model T

  • World War 1 Begins

  • Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts

  • Transatlantic Flight

  • First Radio Station

  • Television (Philo F.)

  • World War 2 Begins

  • A-Bombs dropped on Japan

  • Polio Vaccine (Salk)

  • McDonald's

    McDonald's

  • Moon landing

  • Pong Debuts

    Pong Debuts

  • Betamax

  • VHS

    VHS

  • PC winds Time Magazine "Man of the Year"

  • Compact Disk

    Compact Disk

  • Motorola DynaTac Cell Phone

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

  • Nanotubes

  • Cloning of Dolly

  • Netflix Streaming

    Netflix Streaming

  • iPod Debuts (hard drive)

  • iPhone Debuts

    iPhone Debuts

  • Today