sense of time By emmasippel 3400 BCE writing 2490 BCE the great pyramid 323 BCE death of alexander the great 6 BCE birth of christ 142 gunpowder 476 fall of the roman empire 610 islam founded 1436 printing press 1492 columbus sails to w indies 1620 pilgrims land plymouth rock 1775 american independence 1804 steam locomotive 1849 telephone 1865 us civil war ends 1868 typewriter 1877 phonograph 1879 light bulb 1886 coca-cola 1891 motion pictures: birth of a nation debuts 1898 diesel engine (patent year) 1903 wright bros fly 1908 fords model T 1914 world war 1 1918 first radio station 1927 television (philo f) 1927 transatlantic flight 1939 world war ll begins 1945 polio vaccine (salk) 1945 a-bombs dropped on japan 1955 sputnik launched 1955 mcdonalds 1964 moonlanding 1972 pong debuts 1974 VHS 1975 betamax 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 1997 netflix streaming 2001 ipod debuts 2007 iphone debuts 2023 today
