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3150 BCE
Make-Up
The history of makeup is millenary and the main records of its use go back to the ancient empires of Egypt and Rome. The Egyptians used strong and bright colors to highlight the eyes, in addition, they dyed their lips with red ocher and natural iron oxide. To create the colors they used different natural elements, such as red antimony for the lips, while they obtained turquoise or blue tones by spraying stones and minerals, which they placed on the eyelids. -
Period: 1300 BCE to
Timeline - Inventions
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1457
Newspaper
The newspaper as a means of mass communication appeared after the invention of Gutenberg's printing press. The first mass-printed copy was German and was born in 1457 under the name “Nurenberg Zeitung”. Later, intellectuals began to publish writings in the form of weeklies, newspapers, magazines, etc. It was from the middle of the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, that it underwent a great development. -
1500
Toothbrushes
The toothbrush, as we know it today, was the brainchild of Chinese dentists 1500 years ago. Previously, the Arabs used sprigs of areca, a palm plant whose nut was once an excellent toothpaste. The areca was also used by the inhabitants of the Far East, although they mixed it with the betel leaf and with the lime resulting from the grinding of the shells of certain mollusks and a kind of chewable gum was obtained that kept teeth clean and fought bad breath. . -
Alarm Clock
The first system to wake up at a certain time was invented by the Greeks around 250 BC. It consisted of a mechanical bird that sounded when the tide rose in level. The alarm clock as it is known today was invented by the New Hampshire watchmaker Levi Hutchins in 1787. Until then, people were woken up by the sun, but the watchmaker woke up at four in the morning, a time that has not yet occurred. the sun has risen. -
Battery
Alessandro Volta communicated his discovery of the pile to the London Royal Society on March 20, 1800. Three months later, his letter was read in public before the most prominent members of this institution, who reproduced the experiments described by the Italian and, once his success was proven, he was publicly awarded the recognition he deserved. -
Chewing Gum
Instead, the origin of modern chicle is found in the jungles of northern Central America and southeastern Mexico, specifically, in an area called the Greater Petén, where the Mayan culture emerged more than two thousand years ago. . It was precisely the Mayans who began the collection of one of the most abundant trees in the area, the chicozapote. They did this by making cuts in the bark in the shape of a "Z". -
Breakfast Cereal
Cereals emerged in the United States, first conceived as an ally for digestion. It was James Caleb Jackson, a physician who ran a psychiatric facility in New York City, who 'invented' in 1863 the flour-based cereals used to make graham crackers, which are very popular for breakfast. Jackson was looking for a good vegetarian alternative and one that would not fall apart when pouring it, as it did with cookies, which bothered him a lot. -
Bicycle
In Ancient Egypt, rudimentary artifacts composed of two wheels joined by a bar were made. A very similar contraption was also known in China, but with wheels made of bamboo. There is a belief that the first news about a bicycle dates from the year 1490, approximately, in the work Codex Atlanticus, by Leonardo da Vinci. In them you can see a sketch of a bicycle with a chain drive powered by pedals (the same method used by today's ones), but it was nothing more than a joke perpetrated.
