A Sense of Time By graceschomin 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 12,000 BCE Farming 12,000 BCE Weaving 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Writing 3000 BCE Ironworking 2500 BCE Bronze Working 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 600 Paper Currency 610 Islam Founded 700 Windmill 800 Gunpowder 1268 Eyeglasses 1270 Mechanical Clock 1436 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1801 Man Made Fertilizer 1804 Stream Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1830 The Great Pyramid 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1895 Motion Pictures 1898 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 World War 1 1917 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War ll begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1952 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1956 AI 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1973 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1975 VHS VCR 1976 Apple ll Personal Computer 1979 Sony Walkman 1979 CD 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 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 2023 Today
