Technology By Luo BingHe's Consort 90,000 BCE Fire Actually, the fire was discovered 2.0 million years ago, but this marks it as invalid. 3500 BCE Wheel 200 BCE Magnetic compass 100 Paper 1206 Ancestor of modern toilet 1450 Printer 1600 Thermometer 1800 Voltaic pile 1827 Photograph 1868 First modern typewriter 1876 Telephone 1880 The light bulb 1903 Airplane 1920 Television 1928 Electric refrigerator 1928 Penicillin 1973 Mobile phone 1983 CD 1989 World Wide Web 2020 Quantum computer