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Historical Timeline For Inventions
Ancient
1,000,000 B.C. - Patterned tools 360,000 B.C. - Man harnesses fire 6500 B.C. - Wheel 2600 B.C. - Abacus 1700 B.C. - Windmills 1450 B.C. - Sundial 700 B.C. - Musical notation Gunpowder 184 B.C. - Early books 100 B.C. - Astronomical calculator 700 - Block printing
Medieval
1335 - First public clock 1455 - First Gutenberg Bible 1485 - Leonardo DaVinci designs the first parachute 1495 - First bomb
1500 to 1700
1514 - First bullet 1590 - Compound microscope 1609 - Galileo's Telescope 1621 - First blast furnace 1650 - First air pump 1656 - Pendulum clock
1700 to 1900
1700 - Steam boilers 1760 - Benjamin Franklin invents the bifocal lens 1765 - Steam engine 1796 - Inoculation/vaccination 1800 - First suspension bridge 1801 - First electric arc lamp 1804 - Steam-powered locomotive 1819 - Stethoscope 1837 - Telegraph 1839 - Daguerreotype camera Vulcanized Rubber 1846 - Sewing Machine 1860 - Pasteurization 1867 - Dynamite (Alfred Nobel) 1876 - Thomas Edison 's incandescent bulb Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1877 - Edison 's gramophone and phonograph 1885 - Benz's automobile 1888 - Eastman's camera 1893 - Edison's "movies" 1895 - X-Rays 1899 - Tape recorder
1900 to 2000
1903 - Wright's aeroplanes 1904 - Radar 1923 - Hearing aid 1924 - Liquid fueled rocket 1926 - Warner Bros' "talkies" 1928 - First differential analyzing computer 1932 ,- Electron Microscope 1928 - First differential analyzing computer 1928 - First differential analyzing computer 1942 - Nuclear Reactor 1945 - Atomic Bomb 1947 - Holography 1955 - Fiber optics 1960 - Laser 1972 - Compact disc 1975 - Betamax and VHS 1977 - Apple personal computer 2000 - Dolly the cloned sheep
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