A Sense of Time By KurtisThao 3400 BCE Writing Period: 2550 BCE to 2490 BCE The Great Pyramid 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great Period: 6 BCE to 4 BCE Birth of Christ 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 904 Gunpowder 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1783 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1867 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1880 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford’s Model T Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television (Philo F.) 1939 World War II Begins 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 McDonald’s 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1975 Betamax 1976 VHS 1982 PC wins Time Magazine “Man of the Year” 1982 CD 1984 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1989 World Wide Web 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2007 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming Jan 20, 2023 Today
