Events
Humans invent the wheelWe invented papyrus (crude version of paper)Semites of the Mediterranean develop the alphabet[Bronze Age begins][Iron Age begins]Water-raising and irrigation devices are starting to be created.Ancient Egyptians invent the lighthouseThales of Milelus discovers static electricityGear-driven, precision clockwork machines are in existenceRoman engineer Vitruvius perfects the modern, vertical water wheel.Hero of Alexandria, a Greek scientist, pioneers steam power.Ts'ai Lun makes the first paper in China.Romans develop the first, basic concrete called pozzolana.Windmills were invented in the Middle East[The Golden Age begins]Arabic engineer al-Jazari invents a flushing hand-washing machine, one of the ancestors of the modern toilet.Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press/movable type.The first parachute is sketched on paper.A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope.Sir John Harington describes one of the first modern flush toilets.Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer.Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries.Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers.Thomas Newcomen builds the first practical (but stationary) steam engine.Axel Cronstedt isolates nickel.Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).Thomas Massey invents the pyrometer.Joseph Niepce makes the first modern photograph.Humphry Davy develops the electric arc lamp.Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators and motors.Charles Wheatstone, William Cooke and Samuel Morse, develops the electric telegraph (a forerunner of the telephone).Henry Bessemer pioneers a new method of making steel in large quantities.Fire extinguishers are invented.Elisha Graves Otis invents the elevator with built-in safety brake.Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard.Alexander Graham Bell creates the telephone.Edward Very invents the flare gun (Very pistol) for sending distress flares at sea.Thomas Edison patents the modern incandescent electric lamp.Thomas Edison opens the world's first power plants.Jacques d'Arsonval suggests heat energy could be extracted from the oceans.Karl Benz builds a gasoline-engined car.French brothers Joseph and Louis Lumiere invent movie projectors and open the first movie theater.Physicist Sir Oliver Lodge sends the first ever message by radio wave in Oxford, England.German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X rays.American Ogden Bolton, Jr. invents the electric bicycle.Guglielmo Marconi sends radio-wave signals across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada.The first electric vacuum cleaner is developed by Hubert Cecil Booth.Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright build the first engine-powered airplane.Samuel J. Bens invents the chainsaw.Willis Carrier pioneers the air conditioner.Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television.Robert H. Goddard develops the principle of the modern, liquid-fueled space rocket.Peter Goldmark pioneers color television.Igor Sikorsky builds the first truly practical helicopter.Soviet Union (Russia and her allies) launch the Sputnik space satellite.
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