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First tools. Humans make the first tools from stone, wood, antlers and bones. -
Fire. Humans discover fire -
Wheel. The credit of the wheel has been credited to the Elamites because the sculptures are the earliest to portray it. -
Static electricity. Thales of Miletus discovers static electricity. -
Hot air ballon. Nazca people on Peru are believed to have experimented with ballon flight. -
Lighthouse. Ancient Egyptians invented lighthouses, including the huge of Alexandria. It collapsed following a series of earthquakes between 956 and 1323. -
Magnetic compass. Chinese invent magnetic directions finders. -
Windmill. Windmills are invented in the Middle East. -
Ancestor of modern toilet. Arabic engineer al-Jazzar invents a flushing hand-washing machine. -
Printer. Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type -
Microscope. A Dutch spectacle maker named Zanssen made the first compound microscope. -
Thermometer. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes. -
Telescope. Galilieo Galilei built a practical telescope and made new asstronomical discoveries. -
Pendulum clock. Christian Huygens develops the pendulum clock using Galileo´s earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time. -
Speech synthesizer. Speech synthesizer is the artificial production of human speech. -
Voltaic pile. The first battery. -
Photograph. First modern photograph taken by Joseph Niepce -
Fax machine. Scotsman Alexander Bain invented a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology. -
Typewriter. First modern typewriter with QWERTY keyboard. -
Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today. -
Radio Control. In 1898, at an exhibition at Madison Square Garden, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a small unmanned boat that used a cohered based radio control. -
Airplane. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. -
Ford model T. The world´s fist truly affordable car. -
Television. Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first live human images using his television system, including a three and a half-inch image of his wife Pem. -
Electric refrigerator. The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top" -
Helicopter. Rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally- spinning rotors -
Nuclear reactor. Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago -
DAC-1. IBM and General Motors developed Design Augmented by Computers-1(DAC-1) the first computer-aided design (CAD) system. -
LED. Led lamps have lifespan many times longer than equivalent incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most flourescent lamps. -
Mobile phone. The first handheld cellphone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. -
Apple 1. One of the world´s first personal home computers
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CD. A new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations. -
World Wide Web. Information system where documents and web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators -
IPod.Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player. -
Vacuum Claning Robot. IRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba vacuum cleaning robot -
IPhone. Apple introduced a touchscreen cellphone called the IPhone. -
3D TV. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic without the need of glasses. -
Hyperloop. A giant, pneumatic tube transport system. -
Supercomputers. The world´s fastes computers are now a mere 30 times less powerfull than human brains -
Miniature Machines. Three nanotechnologists win the nobel price in chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules. -
Quantum computer. Google claims to have achieved "quantum supermacy" -with a quantum computer that calculates faster than conventional one.
