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Ancient BC Innovation Timeline | Ancient BC Innovation Timeline <br> | ||
500,000 Fire tamed by Homo erectus <br> | |||
50,000 Homo sapiens (modern man) appears <br> | |||
500,000 Fire tamed by Homo erectus | 20,000 Invention of the bow and arrow <br> | ||
50,000 Homo sapiens (modern man) appears | 12,000 Domestication of animals begins <br> | ||
20,000 Invention of the bow and arrow | 8000 Agriculture invented <br> | ||
12,000 Domestication of animals begins | 7000 Pottery <br> | ||
8000 Agriculture invented | 6000 Weaving <br> | ||
7000 Pottery | 5000 Irrigation systems developed in the Middle East <br> | ||
6000 Weaving | 4000 First use of metals - copper smelted for making tools <br> | ||
5000 Irrigation systems developed in the Middle East | |||
4000 First use of metals - copper smelted for making tools | |||
3500 Bronze, a hard copper tin alloy, discovered and used for making weapons, tools and armor. | 3500 Bronze, a hard copper tin alloy, discovered and used for making weapons, tools and armor. | ||
Wheel appears in Mesopotamia | Wheel appears in Mesopotamia. | ||
Writing invented in Sumeria. | Writing invented in Sumeria. <br> | ||
3000 Abacus invented by the Chinese. | 3000 Abacus invented by the Chinese. <br> | ||
2800 Egyptians devise the 12-month, 365-day calendar. | 2800 Egyptians devise the 12-month, 365-day calendar. <br> | ||
2737 Tea invented in China by Emperor Shen Nung | 2737 Tea invented in China by Emperor Shen Nung <br> | ||
1550 Earliest surviving medical textbook written in Egypt. | 1550 Earliest surviving medical textbook written in Egypt. <br> | ||
1100 Iron Age starts. | 1100 Iron Age starts. <br> | ||
700 First purpose-made sundials appear. | 700 First purpose-made sundials appear. <br> | ||
650 Standardized coins used by Greeks. | 650 Standardized coins used by Greeks. <br> | ||
512 Chinese produce cast iron from blast furnaces. | 512 Chinese produce cast iron from blast furnaces. <br> | ||
510 Greeks produce the earliest surviving world map. | 510 Greeks produce the earliest surviving world map. <br> | ||
400 Two Greeks invent the catapult, the first artillery weapon. | 400 Two Greeks invent the catapult, the first artillery weapon. <br> | ||
312 Work begins on the Appian Way, the first great Roman road. | 312 Work begins on the Appian Way, the first great Roman road. <br> | ||
210 Archimedes, the Greek scientist, invents the Archimedean screw, for raising water, and works out the theory of levers. | 210 Archimedes, the Greek scientist, invents the Archimedean screw, for raising water, and works out the theory of levers. <br> | ||
100 Glassblowing invented in Syria. | 100 Glassblowing invented in Syria. <br> | ||
Early AD Innovation Timeline <br> | |||
105 Paper invented in China by Ts'ai Lun. <br> | |||
300 Stirrups invented in China, enabling horse-riders to use weapons effectively. <br> | |||
475 Horse collar invented in China. | |||
600 The heavy plow invented by the Slavs. | |||
770 Horseshoes come into use in Europe. | |||
810 First description of Arabic numerals. | |||
1000 Chinese discover a weak form of gunpowder. | |||
1041 Movable clay type invented in China by Bi Sheng. | |||
1060 Earliest reference to a water-powered fulling mill for finishing cloth. | |||
1100 Water power used for iron-making in Europe. | |||
1180 Windmills in Europe. | |||
Properties of the compass known in Europe. | |||
1249 Roger Bacon gives earliest European recipe for gunpowder. | |||
1286 Eyeglasses invented in Europe | |||
1291 The Venetian glass industry producing mirrors. | |||
1300 Spinning wheels found in Europe. | |||
1335 The earliest recorded mechanical clock is built in Italy. | |||
15th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1400 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1440 Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg | |||
16th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1500 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1503 Mona Lisa Portrait Leonardo da Vinci | |||
17th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1600 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1642 Adding Machine Blaise Pascal | |||
1668 Reflecting Telescope Isaac Newton | |||
1673 Microbiology Anton van Leeuwenhoek | |||
18th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1700 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1701 Seed Drill Jethro Tull | |||
1742 Franklin Stove Benjamin Franklin | |||
1752 Lightning Rod Benjamin Franklin | |||
1760 Bifocal Glasses Benjamin Franklin | |||
1764 Spinning Jenny Thomas Highs | |||
1767 Jigsaw Puzzle | |||
Spinning Jenny John Spilsbury | |||
James Hargreaves | |||
1775 Mechanized Textile Loom Richard Arkwright | |||
1782 Shot Tower William Watts | |||
1783 | |||
Hot Air Balloon | |||
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier | |||
1790 Pot Ash Process | |||
United States Patent System Samuel Hopkins | |||
United States Congress | |||
1793 Cotton Gin Eli Whitney | |||
1796 Smallpox Vaccine Edward Jenner | |||
19th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1800 00 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1800 | |||
1801 | |||
1806 | |||
Electric Battery | |||
Jacquard Loom | |||
Coffee Pot | |||
Alessandro Volta | |||
Joseph-Marie Jacquard | |||
Benjamin Thompson | |||
1821 | |||
1824 | |||
1827 | |||
1829 | |||
Difference Engine | |||
Braille | |||
Ohm's Law | |||
Graham Cracker | |||
Charles Babbage | |||
Louis Braille | |||
George Simon Ohm | |||
Sylvester Graham | |||
1831 Electromagnetic Induction | |||
Reaper Michael Faraday | |||
Cyrus McCormick | |||
1832 Electric Carriage Robert Anderson | |||
1836 Revolver Colt Samuel Colt | |||
1842 | |||
1843 computer program | |||
Fax Machine | |||
Printing Press, Rotary | |||
Vulcanized Rubber | |||
Ada Lovelace | |||
Alexander Bain | |||
Richard Hoe | |||
Charles Goodyear | |||
1846 | |||
1847 | |||
Sewing Machine | |||
Candy Bar | |||
Elais Howe | |||
Joseph Fry | |||
1849 Safety Pin | |||
Vessel Bellows Walter Hunt | |||
Abraham Lincoln | |||
1852 Elevator | |||
Paper Bag Elisha Graves Otis | |||
Francis Wolle | |||
1853 | |||
Potato Chips | |||
George Crum | |||
1855 Bessemer Furnace Henry Bessemer | |||
1858 Brick Making Machine | |||
Can Opener John Williamson Crary | |||
Ezra Warner | |||
1859 Escalator Nathan Ames | |||
1860 Vacuum Cleaner | |||
Yale Lock Daniel Hess | |||
Linus Yale | |||
1863 Printing Press, Web Rotary William Bullock | |||
1866 Dynamite Alfred Nobel | |||
1867 Baby Formula | |||
Christopher Sholes | |||
1869 Air Brake | |||
Motorcycle George Westinghouse | |||
Sylvester Roper | |||
1870 Chewing Gum | |||
Thomas Adams | |||
1872 Lubrication System Elijah McCoy | |||
1873 Barbed Wire | |||
Blue Jeans | |||
Earmuffs | |||
Self-pasting Scrapebook Joseph Glidden | |||
Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss | |||
Chester Greenwood | |||
Samuel L. Clemens | |||
1875 QWERTY Keyboard | |||
Steel Industry Christopher Sholes | |||
Andrew Carnegie | |||
1876 Arc Lighting System | |||
Carpet Sweeper | |||
Internal Cmbustion Engine | |||
Refrigerator | |||
Telephone Charles Brush | |||
Melville Bissell | |||
Nicholaus Otto | |||
Carl Linde | |||
Alexander Graham Bell | |||
1877 Toilet Paper Seth Wheeler | |||
1878 Nutcracker Henry Quackenbush | |||
1879 Light Bulb | |||
Ivory Soap Thomas Edison & Joseph Swan | |||
Harley Procter | |||
1881 Carbon Filament Louis Latimer | |||
1882 Christmas Lights Edward Johnson | |||
1884 Roll of Film George Eastman | |||
1885 Halftone Printing Process Frederic Eugene Ives | |||
1886 Avon Cosmetics | |||
Coca-Cola | |||
Linotype | |||
Transformer David H. McConnell | |||
Dr. John S. Pemberton | |||
Ottmar Mergenthaler | |||
William Stanley | |||
1887 Multiplex Railway Telegraph | |||
Pneumatic Tire Granville Woods | |||
John Dunlop | |||
1888 Camera, Kodak | |||
Electric Power AC | |||
Spray Atomizer | |||
Teleautograph George Eastman | |||
Nikola Tesla | |||
Allen De Vilbiss | |||
Elisha Gray | |||
1889 Automobile | |||
Electromagnetic Theory of Light | |||
Matches Karl Benz | |||
Heinrich Hertz | |||
Joshua Pusey | |||
1890 Punched Card Machine Herman Hollerith | |||
1891 Swiss Army Knife | |||
Travelers Cheques Carl Elsene | |||
Marcellus F. Berry | |||
1893 Cracker Jack | |||
Modern Architecture F.W. Rueckheim | |||
Frank Lloyd Wright | |||
1894 Kellogg's Corn Flakes | |||
Pupin Inductance Coil | |||
Scientific Business Management Will Keith Kellogg | |||
Michael Pupin | |||
Frederick Winslow Taylor | |||
1895 Wireless Telegraph | |||
Schwinn Bicycle Guglielmo Marconi | |||
Ignaz Schwinn | |||
1896 Peanut Agricultural Science George Washington Carver | |||
1897 Aspirin | |||
Jell-O Felix Hoffmann | |||
Pearle B. Wait | |||
1899 Paper Clip William Middlebrook | |||
20th Century Innovation Timeline | |||
1900 00 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
1900 Dirigible | |||
Hershey Bar | |||
Radio, Wireless Signaling Ferdinand Zeppelin | |||
Milton Hershey | |||
Reginald Fessenden | |||
1901 Assembly Line | |||
Electrostatic Motor | |||
Lionel Trains Ransom Olds | |||
Elihu Thomson | |||
Joshua Lionel Cowen | |||
1902 Air Conditioner | |||
Flashlight | |||
Teddy Bear Willis Haviland Carrier | |||
Conrad Hubert | |||
Morris Michtom | |||
1903 Airplane | |||
Airplane Engine | |||
Coat Hanger | |||
Crayons | |||
Radioactivity, study of | |||
Safety Glass | |||
Windshield Wipers Wright brothers | |||
Charles Taylor | |||
Albert J. Parkhouse | |||
Binney & Smith | |||
Marie Curie | |||
Edouard Benedictus | |||
Mary Anderson | |||
1904 Banking, Consumer | |||
Ice Cream Cone Amadeo Giannini | |||
Ernest Hamwi | |||
1905 Popsicle | |||
Theory of Relativity Frank Epperson | |||
Albert Einstein | |||
1906 Planters Peanuts Amedeo Obici | |||
1907 Bakelite | |||
Dixie Cups | |||
Outboard Motor | |||
Paper Towels Leo Baekeland | |||
Lawrence Luellen & Hugh Moore | |||
Ole Evinrude | |||
Arthur Scott | |||
1908 | |||
Cellophane | |||
Mixer | |||
Jacques Brandenberger | |||
Herbert Johnson | |||
1909 Alexanderson alternator Ernst Alexanderson | |||
1910 | |||
1912 Life Savers Candy | |||
Rocket, Liquid-fueled | |||
Shopping Bag Clarence Crane | |||
Robert Goddard | |||
Walter H. Deubner | |||
1913 Mass Production | |||
Erector Set | |||
Zipper Henry Ford | |||
A.C. Gilbert | |||
Gideon Sundback | |||
1914 Radio Remote Control | |||
Tinkertoy John Hays Hammond | |||
Charles Pajeau | |||
1916 | |||
Lincoln Logs | |||
John Lloyd Wright | |||
1919 Toaster Charles Strite | |||
1920 Band-Aid | |||
Hair Dryer | |||
Traffic Light Earle Dickson | |||
Inventor Unknown | |||
William Potts | |||
1921 Wheaties | |||
Wonder Bread George Cormack | |||
Elmer Clime | |||
1922 Blender Stephen Poplawski | |||
1923 Traffic Light Garret Morgan | |||
1925 Masking Tape | |||
Television, mechanical Dick Drew | |||
John Logie Baird | |||
1927 PEZ Candy | |||
Television Eduard Haas III | |||
Philo T. Farnsworth | |||
1928 Bread Slicer | |||
Bubble Gum | |||
Penicillin | |||
Yo-Yo Otto Rohwedder | |||
Walter E. Diemer | |||
Alexander Fleming | |||
Donald Duncan | |||
1929 Sunglasses Sam Foster | |||
1930 Toll House Cookies | |||
Cellophane Tape Ruth Wakefield | |||
Dick Drew | |||
1935 Ballpoint Pen | |||
Monopoly | |||
Trampoline Ladislas & Georg Biro | |||
Charles Darrow | |||
George Nissen | |||
1936 multiplane camera Walt Disney | |||
1937 Shopping Cart Sylvan Goldman | |||
1938 Nylon Stockings | |||
Xerography Dr. Wallace H. Carothers | |||
Chester Carlson | |||
1939 Atanasoff Berry Computer John Vincent Atanasoff | |||
1940 Blood Bank | |||
Turing Machine Charles Drew | |||
Alan Mathison Turing | |||
1942 Duct Tape | |||
Nuclear Reaction Johnson & Johnson Company | |||
Enrico Fermi | |||
1943 Bouncing Putty James Wright | |||
1944 Clue | |||
Mark I Computer Anthony E. Pratt | |||
Howard Aiken | |||
1945 Microwave Oven | |||
Slinky | |||
Tupperware Percy LeBaron Spencer | |||
Betty and Richard James | |||
Earl Tupper | |||
1946 Bikini Swimsuit | |||
Computer ENIAC | |||
Disposable Diapers Louis Reard | |||
John Mauchly and J. P. Eckert | |||
Marion Donovan | |||
1947 Kitty Litter | |||
Instant Photography | |||
Transistor Ed Lowe | |||
Edwin Land | |||
J. Bardeen, W. Brattain and W. Shockley | |||
1948 Chemical Demulsifiers | |||
SCRABBLE | |||
Velcro Melvin De Groote | |||
Alfred Butts | |||
George de Mestral | |||
1949 LEGO Ole Kirk Christiansen | |||
1950 Frisbee | |||
"PEANUTS" | |||
Silly Putty Walter Frederick Morrison | |||
Charles Schulz | |||
Peter Hodgson | |||
1951 Liquid Paper | |||
Random Access Memory Bette Nesmith Graham | |||
Jay Forrester | |||
1952 Computer Compiler | |||
Mr. Potato Head Grace Hopper | |||
George Lerner | |||
1954 Geodesic Dome | |||
Milk Carton | |||
John Van Wormer | |||
Hildaur Neilsen | |||
1956 Play-Doh | |||
Scotchgard | |||
TV Remote Control | |||
Yahtzee Noah and Joseph McVicker | |||
Patsy Sherman and Sam Smith | |||
Robert Adler | |||
Edwin S. Lowe | |||
1958 Hula Hoop | |||
Integrated Circuit | |||
Laser | |||
Video Game Richard Knerr and Arthur Melin | |||
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce | |||
Arthur Schawlow&CharlesTownes | |||
William Higinbotham | |||
1959 Barbie Doll Ruth Handler | |||
1960 | |||
Etch A Sketch | |||
The Game of Life | |||
Arthur Granjean | |||
Reuben Klamer | |||
1961 Catheter, Balloon Thomas Fogarty | |||
1963 Easy-Bake Oven | |||
Lava Lamp Kenner Products | |||
Edward Craven Walker | |||
1964 Holography | |||
Smiley Face Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks | |||
Harvey Ball | |||
1965 Kevlar | |||
SuperBall | |||
Veg-O-Matic Stephanie Kwolek | |||
Norman Stringley | |||
Ron Popeil | |||
1966 Hand-held Calculator | |||
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Jack Kilby, J. VanTassel & J. Merryman | |||
E. Paul Torrance | |||
1967 Dynamic Random Access Memory Robert Dennard | |||
1968 Computer Mouse | |||
Microprocessor | |||
Speakers, Bose Douglas Engelbart | |||
Ted Hoff | |||
Amar G. Bose | |||
1971 eBooks | |||
Karaoke Machine Michael Hart | |||
Daisuke Inoue | |||
1972 Glo-Sheet | |||
Magnavox Odyssey | |||
Pong Video Game Becky, Schroeder | |||
Ralph Baer | |||
Nolan Bushnell | |||
1973 Ethernet | |||
Internet Robert Metcalfe | |||
Vinton Cerf | |||
1974 Post-it Notes | |||
Rubik's Cube Art Fry and Spencer Silver | |||
Erno Rubik | |||
1976 Personal Computer Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak | |||
1977 Human Powered Flight | |||
PC Modem | |||
SIMON game Paul MacCready | |||
Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington | |||
Ralph Baer | |||
1978 | |||
Dyson Vacuum Cleaner | |||
James Dyson | |||
1979 Tirivial Pursuit Chris Haney and Scott Abbott | |||
1981 | |||
Veggie Patty | |||
Paul Wenner | |||
1982 Computer Gaming | |||
itty bitty Booklight Sid Meier | |||
Noel Zeller | |||
1983 Cabbage Patch Kids | |||
Mobile Phone Xavier Roberts | |||
Richard Frenkiel and Joel Engel | |||
1986 Club, The James Winner | |||
1991 Nakao Snare | |||
World Wide Web Naomi Nakao | |||
Tim Berners-Lee | |||
1992 Water Disinfection System Ashok Gadgil | |||
1993 Beanie Babies | |||
Light Emitting Diodes, Blue | |||
Shuji Nakamura | |||
Abigail Fleck | |||
1995 LeapFrog Michael Wood | |||
1997 | |||
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
Teletubbies | |||
Google | |||
W-O-D Project | |||
Anne Wood & Andrew Davenport | |||
Sergey Brin and Larry Page | |||
Philip M. Parker | |||
YEAR INVENTION INVENTOR | |||
2000 JD Batball Jacob Dunnack | |||
2001 iPod | |||
SegwayHT Tony Fadell | |||
Dean Kamen | |||
2002 | |||
ROOMBA robotic vacuum | |||
Helen Greiner | |||
2005 Magic Sponge Blocks Taylor Hernandez | |||
2006 Multiplication Madness Jennifer Tuttle | |||
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