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Technological advances

  • 10 millons years ago
    1 CE

    10 millons years ago

    First tools. Humans make the first tools from stone, wood, antlers and bones.
  • 1-2 million years ago
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    1-2 million years ago

    Fire. Humans discover fire
  • 3500 BC
    3

    3500 BC

    Wheel. The credit of the wheel has been credited to the Elamites because the sculptures are the earliest to portray it.
  • 600 BC
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    600 BC

    Static electricity. Thales of Miletus discovers static electricity.
  • 500-900 BC
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    500-900 BC

    Hot air ballon. Nazca people on Peru are believed to have experimented with ballon flight.
  • 250 BC
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    250 BC

    Lighthouse. Ancient Egyptians invented lighthouses, including the huge of Alexandria. It collapsed following a series of earthquakes between 956 and 1323.
  • 200 BC
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    200 BC

    Magnetic compass. Chinese invent magnetic directions finders.
  • 600
    8

    600

    Windmill. Windmills are invented in the Middle East.
  • 1206
    9

    1206

    Ancestor of modern toilet. Arabic engineer al-Jazzar invents a flushing hand-washing machine.
  • 1450
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    1450

    Printer. Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type
  • 1590
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    1590

    Microscope. A Dutch spectacle maker named Zanssen made the first compound microscope.
  • 1600
    12

    1600

    Thermometer. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes.
  • 1609
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    1609

    Telescope. Galilieo Galilei built a practical telescope and made new asstronomical discoveries.
  • 1650
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    1650

    Pendulum clock. Christian Huygens develops the pendulum clock using Galileo´s earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time.
  • 1769
    14

    1769

    Speech synthesizer. Speech synthesizer is the artificial production of human speech.
  • 1800
    15

    1800

    Voltaic pile. The first battery.
  • 1827
    16

    1827

    Photograph. First modern photograph taken by Joseph Niepce
  • 1840
    17

    1840

    Fax machine. Scotsman Alexander Bain invented a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology.
  • 1868
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    1868

    Typewriter. First modern typewriter with QWERTY keyboard.
  • 1876
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    1876

    Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today.
  • 1898
    20

    1898

    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.
  • 1903
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    1903

    Airplane. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.
  • 1908
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    1908

    Ford model T. The world´s fist truly affordable car.
  • 1920s
    23

    1920s

    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.
  • 1928
    24

    1928

    Electric refrigerator. The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top"
  • 1939
    25

    1939

    Helicopter. Rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally- spinning rotors
  • 1942
    26

    1942

    Nuclear reactor. Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago
  • 1959
    27

    1959

    DAC-1. IBM and General Motors developed Design Augmented by Computers-1(DAC-1) the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.
  • 1963
    28

    1963

    LED. Led lamps have lifespan many times longer than equivalent incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most flourescent lamps.
  • 1973
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    1973

    Mobile phone. The first handheld cellphone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
  • 1976
    30

    1976

    Apple 1. One of the world´s first personal home computers
  • 1983
    31

    1983

    CD. A new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.
  • 1989
    32

    1989

    World Wide Web. Information system where documents and web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators
  • 2001
    33

    2001

    IPod.Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player.
  • 2001
    34

    2001

    Vacuum Claning Robot. IRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba vacuum cleaning robot
  • 2007
    34

    2007

    IPhone. Apple introduced a touchscreen cellphone called the IPhone.
  • 2010
    35

    2010

    3D TV. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic without the need of glasses.
  • 2013
    36

    2013

    Hyperloop. A giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
  • 2015
    37

    2015

    Supercomputers. The world´s fastes computers are now a mere 30 times less powerfull than human brains
  • 2016
    38

    2016

    Miniature Machines. Three nanotechnologists win the nobel price in chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules.
  • 2020
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    2020

    Quantum computer. Google claims to have achieved "quantum supermacy" -with a quantum computer that calculates faster than conventional one.