US and World By Zander Leick 100,000 BCE Fire 29,000 BCE Pottery 10,000 BCE Farming 6000 BCE Irrigation 4000 BCE Iron Working 4000 BCE Wheel 3500 BCE Sailing 3400 BCE Weaving 3400 BCE Writing 3300 BCE Bronze Working 2500 BCE The Great Pyramids 600 BCE Roman Concrete 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great 206 BCE Compass 1 CE Birth of Christ 103 Paper 142 Gunpowder 500 Fall of the Roman Empire 610 Islam Founded 750 Windmill 1300 Eyeglasses 1300 Mechanical Clock 1439 Printing Press 1492 Columbus sails to the West Indies 1620 Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock 1690 Paper Currency 1776 American Independence 1804 Steam Locomotive 1817 Bicycle 1822 Photography 1830 Mechanical Reaper 1837 Deer Self-Scouring Plow 1844 Vulcanized Rubber 1859 Rechargeable Battery 1862 Pasteurization 1863 U.S Civil War Ends 1868 Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1879 Light Bulb 1886 Coca-Cola 1893 Diesel Engine 1895 Motion Pictures 1904 Wright Brothers Flight 1908 Ford's Model T 1914 World War I 1916 Fordson Tractor 1919 Transatlantic Flight 1920 First Radio Station 1927 Television 1928 Penicilin 1935 Nylon 1936 World War II begins 1940 Mcdonalds 1945 A Bomb dropped on Japan 1947 Transistor 1950 AI 1952 Barcodes 1955 Polio Vaccine 1957 Sputnik Launched 1969 Moonlanding 1972 Pong debut 1975 VHS VCR 1979 Sony Walkman 1982 CD 1983 Motorola DynaTec Cell Phone 1983 Internet 1987 CRISPR 1990 Nanotubes 1994 Bluetooth 1996 Cloning of Dolly 1997 Netflix streaming 1997 Apple II Personal Computer 1997 WiFi 2001 Ipod debut 2004 google maps 2007 Iphone Debut 2009 Bitcoin 2023 Today
