Technology Timeline

By Trey27
  • 10,000 BCE

    Boat

  • 4000 BCE

    Sailing

  • 950

    Windmill

    First windmills were in Persia
  • 1044

    Compass

    William Thomson
  • 1250

    Mechanical clock

    Yi Xing

  • Lightning Rod

    Ben Franklin

  • Submarine

    David Bushnell

  • US Patent

    William Pollard

  • Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Steam powered pumping station

  • Spray gun

    Dr. Alan de Vilbiss

  • Amphibious Vehicle

    Oliver Evans

  • Coffee pot

    Benjamin Thompson

  • Steam boat

    Robert Fulton

  • Armored warship

    Robert Fulton

  • Plough

    John Jethro

  • Erie Canal

  • Profile lathe

    Thomas Blanchard

  • Photography

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

  • Electro magnetic motor

    Joseph Henry

  • Reaper

    Cyrus McCormik

  • Reaping machine

    McCormik

  • Sewing machine

    Walter Hunt

  • Threshing Machine

    John A.

  • Revolver

    Samuel Colt

  • Power tools

    Thomas Davenport

  • Paint Tube

    John Rand

  • Ether Anesthesia

    Crawford Williamson

  • Vulcanized rubber

    Charles Goodyear

  • Telegraph

    Samuel Morse

  • False Teeth

    Cladius Ash

  • Cylinder printing press

    Richard M.

  • Crystal palace

    Colt

  • Passenger elevator

    Elisha Graves Otis

  • Burglar alarm

    Edwin T Holmes

  • oil well

    Edwin Drake

  • Repeating rifle

    Tyler Henry

  • Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell

  • Electric Light

    Thomas Edison

  • Automobile

    Karl Benz

  • Radio

    Guglielmo Marconi

  • Airplane

    Orville Wright

  • Rockets

    Robert Goddard

  • Television

    Philo T. Farnsworth

  • Computer

    John Atanasoff

  • Nuclear Power

    Enrico Fermi

  • Transistor

    John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley

  • Spaceflight

    Soviet Union

  • Internet

    Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn

  • CRISPR

    Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier