A Sense of Time By cjmoore 3400 BCE Writing 2500 BCE The Great Pyramid 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great Period: 6 BCE to 4 BCE Birth of Christ 142 Gunpowder 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1892 Coca-Cola 1898 Diesel Engine 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford’s Model T 1914 World War I 1915 Motion Pictures: Birth of a Nation debuts 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television (Philo F.) 1927 Transatlantic Flight 1939 World War II Begins 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 McDonald’s 1957 Sputnik Launch 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1975 Betamax 1982 PC wins Time Magazine “Man of the Year” 1982 CD 1983 VHS 1983 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1989 World Wide Web 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2007 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming Jan 20, 2023 Today
