A Sense of Time By 20080203 3400 BCE Writing 2540 BCE The Great Pyramid 848 BCE Gunpowder 476 BCE Fall of the Roman Empire 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 5 BCE Birth of Christ 610 Islam Founded 1436 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to West Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock Jul 4, 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1816 Telephone Apr 9, 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1877 Phonograph 1880 Lightbulb 1892 Coca-Cola 1893 Sputnik Launched 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Brothers Flight 1908 Ford's Model T Jul 28, 1914 World War 1 Begins 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts 1919 Transatlantic Flight Nov 2, 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television (Philo F.) Sep 1, 1939 World War 2 Begins Aug 6, 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1953 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 McDonald's 1969 Moon landing Nov 29, 1972 Pong Debuts 1975 Betamax 1977 VHS 1982 PC winds Time Magazine "Man of the Year" 1982 Compact Disk 1984 Motorola DynaTac Cell Phone 1989 World Wide Web 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 Netflix Streaming 2001 iPod Debuts (hard drive) 2007 iPhone Debuts Jan 1, 2023 Today
