school timeline By kolindegroot 4000 BCE The Wheel 3000 BCE Sailing 3000 BCE writing 2900 BCE Pottery 2600 BCE The Great Pyramid 1299 BCE Bronze Working 1200 BCE Weaving 1000 BCE Deere Self-Scouring Plow 850 BCE Gunpowder 628 BCE Islam Founded 618 BCE Paper Currency 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 105 BCE Paper 6 BCE Birth of Christ 475 Fall of the Roman Empire 633 windmill 1190 television 1190 Compass 1200 Eyeglasses 1299 Mechanical Clock 1438 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1440 Irrigation 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1700 Wright Bros. Fly 1775 U.S. Civil War Ends 1776 American Independence 1796 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1799 Photography 1813 Steam Locomotive 1830 Mechanical Reaper 1838 Vulcanized Rubber 1841 Sputnik Launched 1859 Apple II Personal Computer 1876 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1877 Light bulb 1878 Typewriter 1882 Bicycle 1885 Coca-Cola 1893 Today 1904 Fordson Tractor 1919 World War I 1924 Rechargeable Battery 1927 Penicillin 1928 Transatlantic Flight 1934 Nylon 1935 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1938 Penicillin 1939 World War II Begins 1942 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1950 AI 1957 diesel engine 1963 VHS VCR 1968 Ironworking 1968 WiFi 1969 Internet 1974 Barcodes 1974 Barcodes 1978 Ford’s Model T 1979 Man Made Fertilizer 1979 Farming 1982 CD 1986 CRISPR 1987 Motion Pictures 1989 Sony Walkman 1993 Bluetooth 1994 Cloning of Dolly 1996 Netflix Streaming 1997 Nanotubes 2003 iPhone debuts 2004 Moonlanding 2005 Google Maps 2007 Bitcoin 2012 iPod debuts (hard drive)