Sense of Time By kolb. 35,000 BCE Sailing 27,000 BCE Pottery 11,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE Ironworking 3400 BCE Writing 3400 BCE Weaving 2550 BCE The Great pyramid 2500 BCE Bronze Working 600 BCE Roman Concrete 350 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 5 BCE Birth of Christ 4 BCE The Wheel 7 Paper currency 9 GunPowder 13 Eyeglasses 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 500 Windmill 610 Islam Founded 1300 Mechanical Clock 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1839 Vulcanized Rubber 1842 Man Made Fertilizer 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U.S Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1895 Motion Pictures 1895 First Radio Station 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford’s Model T 1914 World War I 1916 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald’s 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 AI 1956 VHS VCR 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1973 Barcodes 1977 Apple II Personal Computer 1979 CD 1979 Sony Walkman 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 1983 Motorola Dyna Tec Cell Phone 1987 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 WiFi 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2005 Google Maps 2007 Netflix Streaming 2007 iPhone debuts 2009 Bitcoin 2024 Today
