Timeline By 20100401 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 8000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4200 BCE The Wheel 3500 BCE Ironworking 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Weaving 3400 BCE Writing 2550 BCE The Great Pyramid 2500 BCE Bronze Working 700 BCE Paper Currency 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 105 Paper 476 Fall of the Roman Empire 525 Birth of Christ 610 Islam Founded 644 Windmill 904 Gunpowder 1268 Eyeglasses 1270 Mechanical Clock 1300 Today 1440 Printing Press (Gutenberg) 1492 Columbus sails to W. Indies 1741 Pilgrims Land Plymouth Rock 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1831 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Beere Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1865 U.S Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine (Patent Year) 1895 Motion Pictures 1896 First Radio Station 1903 Man Made Fertilizer 1903 Wright Bros. Fly 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 World War I 1916 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1927 Television 1928 Penicillin 1935 Nylon 1939 World War II Begins 1940 McDonald's 1945 A-Bobs dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1949 Smallpox Eradicated Worldwide 1951 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine (Salk) 1956 AI 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong Debuts 1973 Motorola BynaTec Cell Phone 1976 VHS VCR 1977 Apple II Personal Computer 1979 CD 1979 Sony Walkman 1982 Internet 1987 CRISPR 1991 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 WiFi 2001 iPod debuts (hard drive) 2005 Google Maps 2007 iPhone debuts 2007 Netflix Streaming 2008 Bitcoin
