A Sense of Time By cassiephillips 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4900 BCE Weaving 4000 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Writing 3300 BCE Bronze Working 2570 BCE The Great Pyramid 1854 BCE Windmill 1741 BCE Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1500 BCE Ironworking 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 150 BCE Roman Concrete 5 BCE Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 600 Paper Currency 610 Islam Founded 904 Gunpowder 1298 Eyeglasses 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1725 Mechanical Clock 1774 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1816 Bicycle 1821 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1835 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1862 Pasteurization 1864 U.S. Civil War Ends 1864 Typewriter 1876 Phonograph 1876 Light Bulb 1876 Telephone 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Motion Pictures 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1909 Man Made Fertilizer 1914 World War 1 1916 Fordson Tractor 1916 Transatlantic Flight 1919 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1950 AI 1952 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1957 Sputnik Launched 1959 Rechargeable Battery 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1973 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1976 VHS VCR 1977 Apple II 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 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2008 Bitcoin 2023 Today
