time line By Carter Brandt 38,000 BCE fire 29,000 BCE pottery 12,999 BCE eye glasses 9000 BCE farming 9000 BCE gunpowder 7000 BCE paper currency 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE iron working 3500 BCE Sailing 3500 BCE weaving 3399 BCE Writing 3200 BCE the great pyramid 2497 BCE bronze working 2000 BCE the wheel 597 BCE Roman concrete 476 BCE fall of the Roman empire 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE compass 200 BCE paper 4 BCE birth of Christ 500 windmill 610 islam founded 1269 mechanical clock 1440 printing press 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1741 pilgrims land play mouth rock 1776 American Independence 1800 rechargeable battery 1804 steam locomotive 1814 bicycle 1822 Photography 1830 mechanical reaper 1837 Deere self-scouring plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1847 telephone 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U.S. Civil War Ends 1868 typewriter 1876 Irrigation 1878 light bulbs 1885 coca-cola 1893 Diesel engine 1895 motion pictures 1895 first radio station 1900 wright brother fly 1907 fordson tractor 1908 ford's model T 1913 man made fertilizers 1914 ww1 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1927 tv 1928 penicillin 1935 nylon 1939 ww2 begins 1940 McDonalds 1942 a bombs dropping on Japan 1947 transistor 1949 bar codes 1950 AI 1950 polio vaccines 1957 sputnik Launched 1963 internet 1965 moonlanding 1972 pong debuts 1976 VHS VCR 1977 apple 2 person computer 1978 Sony walkman 1979 CD 1980 smallpox eradicated world wide 1982 Motorola dynatec cell phone 1987 crispr 1991 nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 clothing of dolly 1997 WiFi 1998 ipods debuts (hard drive) 2002 Google maps 2005 Bitcoin 2006 iphones debuts 2007 Netflix streaming 2024 today
