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3500 BCE
The Wheel
The use of wheels presses on to Europe and Western Asia. The use of wheels in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian subcontinent begins in the 3rd millennium BC.The wheel was initially constructed gone woodwork. -
206 BCE
The Compass
The compass was first used in the field of military, during the period of the Vahan dynasty during the reign of the Zahan region. It is widely seen in Western Europe that Zhouban used to first use the compass, though it is widely argued that the marine compass used to travel along the route. -
1300
The Concrete
Joseph Aspdin invented Portland cement by burning finely ground chalk and clay until the carbon dioxide was removed. Aspdin named the cement after the high-quality building stones quarried in Portland, England. In the 19th Century concrete was used mainly for industrial buildings. -
1440
The Printing Press
Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press. -
The Train
First steam locomotive railway known as Penydarren or "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick, used to haul iron from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon, Wales. The first train carried a load of 10 tons of iron. -
The Bicycle
The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany. Drais invented his Laufmaschine in 1817, that was called Draisine -
The Telephone
While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876. -
The Light
The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light. -
The Airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
The Television
The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.
