Sense of Time By Spencer Winnekens 3400 BCE Writing 2530 BCE The Great Pyramid 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 5 BCE Birth of Christ 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 801 Gunpowder 1436 Printing Press 1492 Columbus Sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1865 US Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1892 Coca-Cola 1898 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 World War I 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1939 World War II Begins 1945 A-Bombs Dropped on Japan 1955 Polio Vaccine 1955 McDonald's 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moon Landing 1975 Betamax 1977 VHS 1982 PC wins Time Magazine 1982 Pong Debuts 1982 CD 1989 World Wide Web 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 Netflix Streaming 2001 iPod Debuts 2007 iPhone Debuts 2023 Today
