Sense of Time

  • 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

  • Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock

  • American Independence

  • Man Made Fertilizer

  • Steam Locomotive

  • Bicycle

  • Photography

  • Mechanical Reaper

  • Deere Self- Scouring Plow

  • Vulcanized Rubber

  • Rechargeable Battery

  • Paper Currency

  • Pasteurization

  • U. Civil War Ends

  • Typewritter

  • Phonograph

  • Telephone

  • Light Bulb

  • Coca- Cola

  • Motion Pictures

  • First Radio Station

  • Diesel Engine (Patent Year)

  • Wright Bros. Fly

  • Ford's Model T

  • World War 1

  • Fordson Tractor

  • Transatlantic Flight

  • Television

  • Penicillin

  • Nylon

  • World War II Begins

  • McDonald's

  • A- Bombs dropped on Japan

  • Transistor

  • Barcodes

  • Polio Vaccine (Salk)

  • VHS VCR

  • AI

  • Sputnik Launched

  • Moonlanding

  • Pong Debuts

  • Apple II Personal Computer

  • CD

  • Sony Walkman

  • Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide

  • Internet

  • Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone

  • CRISPR

  • Nanotubes

  • Bluetooth

  • Cloning of Dolly

  • WiFi

  • iPod debuts (hard drive)

  • Google Maps

  • Netflix Streaming

  • iPhone debuts

  • Bitcoin

  • Today