History of Technology

By arrowwalker
  • 10,000 BCE

    Archery

  • Animal Husbandry
    10,000 BCE

    Animal Husbandry

    A branch of agriculture involved with animals raised for meat, milk, fibre, or other animal products.
  • Period: 6000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Ancient Era

    Pottery
    Animal Husbandry
    Mining
    Sailing
    Irrigation
    Writing
    Archery
    Masonry
    Bronze Working
    Wheel
  • 5000 BCE

    Sailing

  • 4500 BCE

    Bronze Working

  • 4000 BCE

    Pictography

  • 4000 BCE

    Mining

  • 4000 BCE

    Masonry

  • 4000 BCE

    Horseback Riding

  • 4000 BCE

    Shipbuilding

  • 4000 BCE

    Construction

  • 3400 BCE

    Composites

  • 3000 BCE

    Celestial Navigation

  • 2550 BCE

    Engineering

  • 2500 BCE

    Pottery

  • 2500 BCE

    Sanitation

  • 2076 BCE

    Education

  • 2000 BCE

    Currency

  • 2000 BCE

    Wheel

  • 2000 BCE

    Irrigation

  • 2000 BCE

    Banking

  • 1200 BCE

    Iron Age

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500

    Classical Era

    Celestial Navigation
    Currency
    Horseback Riding
    Iron Working
    Mathematics
    Shipbuilding
    Construction
    Engineering
  • 800 BCE

    Military Engineering

  • 800 BCE

    Metal Casting

  • 700 BCE

    Cartography

  • 600 BCE

    Mathematics

  • 322 BCE

    Stirrups

  • 50

    Machinery

  • Period: 500 to 1350

    Medieval Era

    Stirrups
    Machinery
    Education
    Military Engineering
    Castles
  • 1000

    Castles

  • 1240

    Gunpowder

  • 1300

    Printing

  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance Era

    Cartography
    Mass Production
    Banking
    Gunpowder
    Printing
    Square Rigging
    Astronomy
    Metal Casting
  • 1400

    Square Rigging

  • 1500

    Rifling

  • 1551

    Steam Power

  • Electricity

  • Ballistics

  • Chemistry

  • Period: to

    Industrial Era

    Industrialization
    Ballistics
    Steam Power
    Sanitation
    Economics
    Rifling

  • Economics

  • Astronomy

  • Flight

  • Rocketry

  • Industrialization

  • Replaceable Parts

  • Steel

  • Petroleum Refining

  • Synthetic Materials

  • Period: to

    Modern Era

    Chemistry
    Combustion
    Electricity
    Flight
    Radio
    Petroleum Refining
    Replaceable Parts
    Steel

  • Radio

  • Combustion

  • Mass Production

  • Plastics

  • Telecommunications

  • Advanced Flight

  • Robotics

  • Nuclear Fission

  • Nuclear Fission

  • Period: to

    Atomic Era

    Advanced Flight
    Rocketry
    Plastics
    Computers
    Nuclear Fission
    Synthetic Materials

  • Computers

  • Satellites

  • Stealth Technology

  • Nanotechnology

  • Lasers

  • Period: to

    Information Era

    Telecommunications
    Satellites
    Lasers
    Composites
    Stealth Technology
    Robotics
    Nuclear Fusion
    Nanotechnology
  • Period: to

    Future Era

    Advanced AI
    Advanced Power Cells
    Cybernetics
    Offworld Missions
    Predictive Systems
    Smart Materials