A Sense of Time

  • 100,000 BCE

    Fire

  • Period: 100,000 BCE to

    A Sense of Time

  • 29,000 BCE

    Pottery

  • 10,000 BCE

    Weaving

  • Farming
    10,000 BCE

    Farming

  • 6000 BCE

    Irrigation

  • The Wheel
    4000 BCE

    The Wheel

  • 4000 BCE

    Ironworking

  • 3500 BCE

    Sailing

  • Writing
    3400 BCE

    Writing

  • 3300 BCE

    Bronze Working

  • 2560 BCE

    The Great Pyramid

  • 323 BCE

    Death of Alexander the Great

  • 206 BCE

    Compass

  • Birth of Christ
    1 CE

    Birth of Christ

  • 105

    Paper

  • Roman Concrete
    200

    Roman Concrete

  • Fall of the Roman Empire
    476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • Islam Founded
    610

    Islam Founded

  • 644

    Windmill

  • 700

    Paper Currency

  • 800

    Gunpowder

  • Eyeglasses
    1274

    Eyeglasses

  • 1285

    Mechanical Clock

  • Printing Press (Gutenberg)
    1440

    Printing Press (Gutenberg)

  • 1492

    Columbus sails to W. Indies

  • Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

    Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

  • American Independence

  • Steam Locomotive

  • Bicycle

    Bicycle

  • Photography

  • Deere Self-Scouring Plow

  • Vulcanized Rubber

    Vulcanized Rubber

  • Mechanical Reaper

  • Rechargeable Battery

    Rechargeable Battery

  • Pasteurization

  • U.S. Civil War Ends

  • Typewriter

  • Telephone

  • Phonograph

    Phonograph

  • Light Bulb

  • Coca-Cola

  • Motion Pictures

    Motion Pictures

  • First Radio Station

  • Diesel Engine (Patent Year)

    Diesel Engine (Patent Year)

  • Wright Bros. Fly

  • Ford's Model T

  • Man Made Fertilizer

    Man Made Fertilizer

  • World War l

  • Fordson Tractor

  • Transatlantic Flight

    Transatlantic Flight

  • Television

  • Penicillin

    Penicillin

  • Nylon

  • World War ll Begins

  • McDonald's

    McDonald's

  • A-Bombs dropped on Japan

  • Transistor

  • Polio Vaccine (Salk)

  • Barcodes

  • AI

    AI

  • Sputnik Launched

  • Moonlanding

  • Pong Debuts

  • VHS VCR

  • Apple II Personal Computer

    Apple II Personal Computer

  • Sony Walkman

  • Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide

  • CD

  • Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone

    Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone

  • Internet

  • CRISPR

  • Nanotubes

  • Bluetooth

  • Cloning of Dolly

    Cloning of Dolly

  • WiFi

  • iPod debuts (hard drive)

  • Google Maps

  • Netflix Streaming

    Netflix Streaming

  • iPhone debuts

  • Bitcoin

  • Today