Sense of Time By nadeprez 3400 BCE Writing 2500 BCE The Great Pyramid 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 4 BCE Birth of Christ 142 Gunpowder 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam founded 1440 Printing Press 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Lan Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1855 U.S. civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1892 Coca-Cola 1898 Diesel Engine 1903 Wrigh Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 World war l 1915 Motion Pictues 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1927 Transatlantic 1939 World War ll 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1955 Polio Vaccine 1955 McDonabl's 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1975 Betamax 1982 PC wins Time Magazine "Man of the Year" 1982 CD 1983 VHS 1983 Motorola dynamic Cell Phone 1989 World Wide Web 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 2001 iPod debuts 2007 Iphone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2023 Present day