Sense of Time By knappemma 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 8000 BCE farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 3500 BCE sailing 3400 BCE weaving 3400 BCE writing 3300 BCE Bronze Working 3230 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 2970 BCE Great Pyramid 1200 BCE Ironworking 900 BCE Gunpowder 400 BCE Wheel 206 BCE Compass 3 BCE Roman Concrete 105 Paper 336 Birth of Christ 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 643 Windmill 700 Paper Currency 1270 Mechanical Clock 1300 Eyeglasses 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1504 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1799 Man Made Fertilizer 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1821 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1839 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1864 U.S. Civil War Ends 1867 Typewriter 1875 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1885 Coca-Cola 1895 Motion Pictures 1895 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1897 First Radio Station 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1906 Fordson Tractor 1908 Ford’s Model T 1914 World War I 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1924 Television 1927 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald’s 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1952 Barcodes 1954 Sputnik Launched 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1956 AI 1959 Moonlanding 1970 Pong Debuts 1973 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1974 Apple II Personal Computer 1974 CRISPR 1976 VHS VCR 1979 Sony Walkman 1979 CD 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 WiFi 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2003 Google Maps 2007 Netflix Streaming 2007 iPhone debuts 2008 Bitcoin 2018 Today
