A sense of Time By Burke 3500 BCE Writing 2550 BCE The great pyrmids 900 BCE Gunpowder 323 BCE Death of Alexandr the great 4 BCE Birth of christ 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 1436 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies Dec 16, 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1712 steam locomotive Jul 2, 1776 Amercian Independence 1827 phonograph 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter Mar 7, 1876 Telephone 1880 Light Bulb 1892 Coca-Cola Jan 1, 1898 Diesel Enigine Dec 7, 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford’s Model T 1914 world war 1 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts Nov 2, 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Televison May 21, 1927 Transatlantic flight Sep 1, 1939 World War II Begins Aug 10, 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1955 polio vaccine Apr 15, 1955 McDonald's Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launched Jul 20, 1969 Moonlanding 1971 Betamax 1972 pong debut 1976 VHS 1982 PC wins Time maginzine "Man of the year 1982 CD 1984 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1989 world wide web 1991 Nanotubes Jul 5, 1996 cloning of dolly Oct 23, 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2007 Netflix Streaming Jun 29, 2007 iPhone debuts Jan 20, 2023 Today
