| 2400 BC | The abacus, the first known calculator, invented in Babylonia
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| 300 BC | Pingala invents the binary number system |
| 87 BC | Antikythera Mechanism invented in Rhodes to track movement of the stars |
| 724 | Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock |
| 1041 | Movable type printing press invented by Bi Sheng |
| 1280 | Eyeglasses were invented |
| 1350 | Suspension bridges built in Peru |
| 1450 | Alphabetic, movable type printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg |
| 1500 | Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots
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| 1510 | Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein |
| 1576 | Ironclad warship invented by Oda Nobunaga |
| 1581 | Pendulum invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1593 | Thermometer invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1608 | Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey |
| 1609 | Microscope invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1642 | Adding machine invented by Blaise Pascal |
| 1643 | Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli |
| 1645 | Vacuum pump invented by Otto von Guericke |
| 1657 | Pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens |
| 1679 | Pressure cooker invented by Denis Papin |
| 1687 | Newton, Principia: Newton's physics formed the foundation of modern science |
| 1698 | Steam engine invented by Thomas Savery |
| 1671 | Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus |
| 1705 | Steam piston engine invented by Thomas Newcomen |
| 1708 | Jethro Tull invents mechanical (seed) sower |
| 1710 | Thermometer invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur |
| 1733 | John Kay invents flying shuttle. |
| 1742 | Franklin stove invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| 1752 | Lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| 1767 | Spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves |
| 1769 | Steam engine invented by James Watt |
| 1774 | Priestly isolates oxygen |
| 1779 | First steam powered mills automate the weaving process. |
| 1781 | William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. |
| 1783 | Hot air balloon invented by Montgolfier brothers |
| 1791 | Steamboat invented by John Fitch |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin |
| 1798 | Vaccination invented by Edward Jenner |
| 1799 | Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas) Oliver Evans invents the conveyer belt
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| 1804 | Locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick |
| 1814 | Steam Locomotive (Blucher) invented by George Stephenson |
| 1816 | Miner's safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy |
| 1816 | Stethoscope invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec |
| 1820 | The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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| 1821 | Faraday demonstrates the principle of the electric motor.
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| 1822 | Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer |
| 1821 | Electric motor invented by Michael Faraday |
| 1826 | Photography invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce |
| 1830 | Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding |
| 1831 | Von Liebig discovers chloroform Faraday discovers electro-magnetic current, making possible generators and electric engines.
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| 1834 | Braille invented by Louis Braille |
| 1834 | Refrigerator invented by Jacob Perkins |
| 1834 | Combine harvester invented by Hiram Moore |
| 1835 | Morse code invented by Samuel Morse Revolver invented by Samuel Colt
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| 1838 | Electric telegraph invented by Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse) Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype.
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| 1839 | Vulcanization of rubber invented by Charles Goodyear |
| 1842 | Anaesthesia invented by Crawford Long |
| 1843 | Typewriter invented by Charles Thurber |
| 1846 | Sewing machine invented by Elias Howe |
| 1846 | Rotary printing press invented by Richard M. Hoe Pneumatic tire patented Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
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| 1849 | Safety pin invented by Walter Hunt Monier develops reinforced concrete
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| 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
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| 1862 | Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling Isaac Singer commercializes the sewing machine
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| 1862 | Mechanical submarine invented by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol |
| 1866 | Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel Lister demonstrates the use of carbolic antiseptic
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| 1869 | Mendeleev produces the Periodic Table |
| 1870 | Stock ticker invented by Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1873 | Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter James Clerk Maxwell states the laws of electro-magnetic radiation
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| 1876 | Gasoline carburettor invented by Daimler |
| 1877 | Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1877 | Microphone invented by Emile Berliner |
| 1878 | Cathode ray tube invented by William Crookes Edison invents the incandescent lamp.
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| 1880 | Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1883 | First skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories) Maxim invents the machine gun
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| 1885 | Motor cycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach Benz develops first automobile to run on internal- combustion engine
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| 1888 | Hertz produces radio waves.
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| 1888 | Eiffel Tower is built |
| 1891 | Zipper invented by Whitcomb L. Judson Rudolf Diesel invents diesel
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| 1893 | Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla |
| 1895 | Diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi Auguste and Louis Lumiere develop Cinematograph Roentgen discovers X-rays
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| 1898 | Remote control invented by Nikola Tesla |
| 1900 | Planck develops quantum theory First Zeppelin is built
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| 1901 | Vacuum cleaner invented by Hubert Booth |
| 1903 | Powered airplane invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright |
| 1905 | Einstein writes the Theory of Relativity. |
| 1907 | Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere Helicopter invented by Paul Cornu Radio amplifier invented by Lee DeForest
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| 1908 | Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T. |
| 1909 | Bakelite invented by Leo Baekeland |
| 1919 | London to Paris air service begins James Smathers develops the first electric typewriter
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| 1923 | Sound film invented by Lee DeForest Television Electronic invented by Philo Farnsworth
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| 1924 | Electro Mechanical television system invented by John Logie Baird |
| 1926 | Robert Goddard experiments with liquid-fueled rockets. |
| 1928 | Antibiotics, penicillin invented by Alexander Fleming |
| 1931 | Iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin |
| 1937 | Jet engine invented by Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
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| 1938 | Ballpoint pen invented by Laszlo Biro |
| 1943 | Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus Aqua-Lung invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
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| 1945 | The atomic bomb |
| 1946 | Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer |
| 1951 | Nuclear power reactor invented by Walter Zinn |
| 1956 | Optical fiber invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss Videocassette recorder invented by Ampex
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| 1957 | Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians |
| 1958 | Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
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| 1960 | Laser invented by Theodore Harold Maiman |
| 1961 | Uri Gagarin is the first man in space Optical disc invented by David Paul Gregg
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| 1963 | Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart |
| 1967 | Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) invented by John Shepherd-Barron Hypertext invented by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
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| 1968 | Video game console invented by Ralph H. Baer |
| 1969 | The moon landing - Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon |
| 1971 | E-mail invented by Ray Tomlinson Liquid Crystal Display invented by James Fergason Pocket calculator invented by Sharp Corporation Floppy Disk invented by David Noble with IBM
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| 1973 | Ethernet invented by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs Personal computer invented by Xerox PARC
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| 1983 | Camcorder invented by Sony |
| 1990 | World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee |
| 2001 | Digital satellite radio |
