Sense of Time By Jack_Ullmer 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE Farming 10,000 BCE Weaving 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE Iron Working 4000 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Writing 2780 BCE The Great Pyramid 2500 BCE Bronze Working 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 300 BCE Roman Concrete 206 BCE Compass 1 CE Birth of Christ 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 644 Windmill 700 Paper Currency 900 Gunpowder 1290 Mechanical Clock 1300 Eyeglasses 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1816 Bicicyle 1822 Photography 1832 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deere Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1875 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine (patent year) 1894 Motion Pictures 1895 First Radio Station 1900 Man Made Fertilizer 1903 Wright Bros Fly 1907 Ford's Model T 1914 World War 1 1917 Fordson Tractor 1918 Transatlantic Flight 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1938 World War 2 Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan 1946 Transistor 1948 Barcodes 1952 AI 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1957 Sputnik Launched 1958 Television 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1976 VHS VCR 1977 Apple 2 Personal Computer 1978 CD 1979 Sony Walkman 1980 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1983 Internet 1983 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1985 CRISPR 1990 Nanotubes 1993 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1996 Netflix Streaming 1997 WiFi 2001 iPod Debuts (Hard Drive) 2004 Google Maps 2007 iPhone debuts 2008 Bitcoin 2023 Today