Sense of Time - Timeline of Inventions By GABE. 100,000 BCE Fire 25,000 BCE Pottery 11,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Weaving 3300 BCE Writing 2550 BCE The Great Pyramid 2500 BCE Bronze Working 2000 BCE Ironworking 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 4 BCE Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 800 Gunpowder 900 Windmill 1300 Eyeglasses 1300 Mechanical Clock 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1690 Paper Currency 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1842 Man Made Fertilizer 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1862 Typewriter 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine 1895 Motion Pictures 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford’s Model T 1917 Fordson Tractor 1918 World War I 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1928 Transatlantic Flight 1935 Nylon 1939 Vulcanized Rubber 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald’s 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1955 Polio Vaccine 1956 AI 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1971 Pong Debuts 1973 Barcodes 1976 VHS/VCR 1977 Apple II Personal Computer 1979 Sony Walkman 1979 CD 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 1987 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1994 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1995 Cloning of Dolly 1997 Wifi 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2005 Google Maps 2007 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2009 Bitcoin 2024 Today
