Sense of Time By ajensen5 100,000 BCE Fire 1 million years ago 10,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE First farmers 7000 BCE Weaving 6000 BCE Irrigation 3500 BCE The Wheel 3298 BCE Bronze Working 3000 BCE Writing Invented (Cuneiform) 3000 BCE Sailing 2560 BCE The Great Pyramids 1197 BCE Ironworking 323 BCE Death of Alexander The Great 300 BCE Roman Concrete 206 BCE Compass 6 Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 608 Islam Founded 700 Paper Currency 700 Windmill Invented 850 Gunpowder 1197 Mechanical Clock 1268 Eyeglasses 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus Sails to W. Indies 1617 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1809 Steam Locomotive 1826 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1836 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1839 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1860 Pastuerization 1860 Bicycle 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1878 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1887 Motion Pictures 1892 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1902 Wright Bros Fly 1907 Ford's Model T 1909 Man Made Fertilizer 1914 World War I 1915 Fordson Tractor 1917 First Radio Station 1927 Transatlantic Flight 1927 First TV 1927 Penicillan 1933 Nylon invented 1939 WWII Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1952 Sputnik Launched 1953 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1955 AI 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1974 Barcodes 1975 VHS VCR 1979 Sony Walkman 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1982 CD 1983 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1983 Internet 1989 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1997 WiFi 1997 Apple II Personal Computer 1997 Cloning of Dolly 2000 iPod Debuts (hard drive) 2003 Google Maps 2005 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2009 Bitcoin 2012 CRISPR 2021 Today
