Sense of Time By 20100532 200,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Writing 2600 BCE Weaving 2570 BCE The Great Pyramid 2480 BCE Bronze Working 2000 BCE The Wheel 1500 BCE Ironworking 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 285 BCE Windmill 206 BCE Compass 3 BCE Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 800 Gunpowder 1299 Mechanical Clock 1300 Eyeglasses 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1602 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1800 Man Made Fertilizer 1804 Steam Locomotive 1815 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1835 Deere Self- Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1857 Rechargeable Battery 1861 Paper Currency 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewritter 1874 Phonograph 1875 Telephone 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca- Cola 1893 Motion Pictures 1895 First Radio Station 1895 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1912 World War 1 1917 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A- Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1952 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1956 VHS VCR 1956 AI 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1977 Apple II Personal Computer 1979 CD 1979 Sony Walkman 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 1983 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1987 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 WiFi 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2005 Google Maps 2007 Netflix Streaming 2007 iPhone debuts 2009 Bitcoin 2023 Today