History By NoeG500 99,999 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Weaving 3400 BCE Writing 2500 BCE Bronze Working 2490 BCE The Great Pyramid 1000 BCE Ironworking 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 5 BCE Birth of Christ 9 Gunpowder 104 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 1268 Eyeglasses 1438 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus Sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1802 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicylce 1822 Photography 1833 Mechanical Reaper 1836 Deere Self Scouring Plow 1843 Vulcanized Rubber 1848 Telephone 1854 Windmill 1859 Rechargeable battery 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Phonograph 1878 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1887 Motion Pictures 1898 Diesel Engine (Patent) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1906 Ford's Model T 1910 World War I 1911 Man Made Fertilizer 1917 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 WWII Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1948 AI 1952 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1957 Sputnik Launched 1961 Pasteurization 1969 Moonlanding 1971 Pong Debuts 1976 VHS VCR 1976 Sony Walkman 1977 Apple II Personal Computer 1979 CD 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1982 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1983 Internet 1983 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 WiFi 1997 Netflix Streaming 2000 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2004 Google Maps 2007 iPhone debuts 2009 Bitcoin 2022 Today
