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| 5.42.28 | First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco, Idaho | 1951-12-20 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1951-12-20 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.40.15 | Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam-powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers, an early car. | 1769-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1769-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.10 | Bronze in Mesopotamia | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Middle East | ||||
| 5.40.29 | George Medhurst invents the first motorized air compressor. | 1799-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1799-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.24 | Mariner’s astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa | 1485-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1485-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.65 | Four-stroke cycle invented by Nikolaus August Otto. | 1876-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1876-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.20 | The pattern-tracing lathe (actually more like a shaper) is completed by Thomas Blanchard for the U.S. Ordnance Dept. The lathe can copy symmetrical shapes and is used for making gun stocks, and later, ax handles. The lathe’s patent is in force for 42 years, the record for any U.S. patent. | 1822-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1822-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.69 | Plasma is produced by Sir William Crookes for the first time. | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.7 | The earliest form of mechanical escapement, the verge escapement in Europe. | 1260-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1260-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.61 | The Crookes radiometer is invented by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research. | 1873-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1873-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.15 | Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire | 0400-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0400-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.37 | Unix is invented. | 1969-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1969-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.80 | John J. Loud invents the ballpoint pen. | 1888-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1888-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 4.26 | Gunpowder in Tang Dynasty China: Gunpowder is, according to prevailing academic consensus, discovered in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality. Evidence of gunpowder’s first use in China comes from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (618–907). The earliest known recorded recipes for gunpowder are written by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in theWujing Zongyao, a military manuscript compiled in 1044 during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). | 0850-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0850-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.12 | Eyeglasses in Italy | 1286-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1286-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.60 | Dynamite, the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder, is invented by Alfred Nobel. | 1867-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1867-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.27 | William Mann invents the compound air compressor. | 1829-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1829-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.41 | The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey. | 1972-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1972-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.26 | The first true centerfire cartridge, one of the most widely used cartridges for firearms, is developed by Clement Pottet. However, it would not be perfected until 1855. | 1829-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1829-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.17 | John Wilkinson invents his boring machine, considered by some to be the first machine tool. | 1774-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1774-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.5 | Morphine is discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner. | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.15 | Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily) or Phoenician Carthage | 0420-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0420-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.73 | Paul Vieille invents Poudre B, the first smokeless powder for firearms. | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.12 | The tank is invented by Ernest Swinton, although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office, for a ‘chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches’ complete with extensive drawings in 1912. Additionally, an Austrian by the name of Günther Burstyn designed a tank in 1911 and a Captain Levavasseur of the French army proposed a design in 1903. | 1915-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1915-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.6 | The steam locomotive is invented by Richard Trevithick. | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.10 | The first instantaneous transmission of images, or television broadcast, is carried out by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier. | 1909-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1909-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 2.3 | Alphabet in Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon) | 1700-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 1700-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Middle East | ||||
| 5.41.18 | The tunnelling shield is invented by Marc Isambard Brunel. | 1818-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1818-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.42 | The first commercial graphical user interface is introduced in 1973 on the Xerox Alto. The modern GUI is later popularized by the Xerox Star and Apple Lisa. | 1973-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1973-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.36 | Vacuum pump: Invented by Otto von Guericke. | 1650-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1650-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.1 | Proto-city – large permanent settlements, in Turkey (Çatalhöyük) | 7750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 7750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Asia Minor | ||||
| 5.41.49 | François Coignet invents reinforced concrete. | 1853-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1853-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.5 | Music Notation in Ancient India | 0700-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0700-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | South Asia | ||||
| 5.40.22 | Martinus van Marum is the first to use the electrolysis technique. | 1785-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1785-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.11 | Jean Samuel Pauly, in association with François Prélat, using percussion ignition and an early form of centerfire cartridge (it lacked a percussion cap), creates the first self-contained cartridges for firearms. | 1808-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1808-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.36 | William Otis invents the steam shovel. | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.2 | Arc lamp invented by Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators). | 1802-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1802-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.12 | Fishing reel in Ancient China: In literary records, the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a 4th-century AD work entitled Lives of Famous Immortals’. | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 2.4 | Coins in China, Lebanon or Lydia | 1500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 1500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | |||||
| 5.26 | Taqi al-Din describes a simple steam turbine-like device used in steam jacks. | 1551-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1551-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Middle East | ||||
| 2.6 | Sword in Ancient Egypt | 1200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 1200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Africa | ||||
| 5.42.1 | Human voice transmitted wirelessly (by radio) for the first time by Roberto Landell de Moura. The first AM radio factory is opened in 1912. | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.37 | John Bennet Lawes invents superphosphate, the first man-made fertilizer. | 1842-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1842-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.5 | The Fleming valve, the first vacuum tube and diode, is invented by John Ambrose Fleming. | 1904-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1904-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.48 | The first commercially available cell phone, the DynaTAC 8000X, is invented by Motorola. | 1984-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1984-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.42.53 | DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions. | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe|East Asia | ||||
| 4.21 | Greek fire in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire: Greek fire, an incendiary weapon likely based on petroleum or naphtha, is invented by Kallinikos, a Lebanese Greek refugee from Baalbek, as described by Theophanes. However, the historicity and exact chronology of this account is dubious, and it could be that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon. | 0672-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0672-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Asia Minor | ||||
| 5.41.23 | Patrick Bell invents the reaping machine. | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.31 | The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. | 1955-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1955-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.57 | The first successful tunnel boring machine is invented by Frederick Edward Blackett Beaumont. Although the first machines to be built were invented by Henri Joseph-Maus, Charles Wilson and others none of them were truly successful in practice until Beaumont’s invention. | 1863-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1863-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.31 | Newspaper (Relation): Johann Carolus in Strassburg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers) | 1605-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1605-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.46 | Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) is invented in Japan by Dr. Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba. It is formally introduced to the public in 1984. | 1980-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1980-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.68 | James Paris Lee invents the first true box magazine for firearms. | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 3.1 | Fake Teeth in Etruria | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 1.9 | Sailing in ancient Egypt | 3200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Africa | ||||
| 5.40.8 | Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale. | 1742-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1742-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.14 | Joseph Priestley invents a method for the production of carbonated water. | 1767-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1767-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.21 | Nuclear fission discovered in experiment by Otto Hahn (Nazi Germany), coined by Lise Meitner (fled to Sweden from Nazi-occupied Austria) and Fritz Strassman (Sweden). The Manhattan Project, and consequently the Soviet atomic bomb project were begun based on this research, as well as the German nuclear energy project, although the latter one declined as its physicists were drafted into Germany’s war effort. | 1938-12-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1938-12-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.36 | ARPANET first deployed via UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and The University of Utah. | 1969-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1969-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.40.19 | John Wilkinson invents a mechanical air compressor that would become the prototype for all later mechanical compressors. | 1776-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1776-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.74 | Carl Gassner invents the zinc-carbon battery, the first dry cell battery, making portable electronics practical. | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5 | 2nd Millenium AD Inventions | 1050-01-01 00:00:00 | 945 years | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | Light Green | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/2nd_millennium_montage.png | The world advanced great leaps and bounds in this millenium, moving from horses to automobiles, the Renaissance Period making advances in science and art, and the industrial revolution, leading us to a modern society. | ||||
| 4.4 | Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica, Roman Empire | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Europe | ||||
| 4.10 | Field mill in Ancient China, first mentioned in the Yezhongji, or ‘Record of Affairs at the Capital Ye of the Later Zhao Dynasty’ written by Lu Hui in the 4th century, describing a field mill built by two engineers, Xie Fei and Wei Mengbian. | 0330-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0330-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.40.2 | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. | 1709-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1709-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.30 | The first paper machine is invented by Louis-Nicolas Robert. | 1799-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1799-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.32 | The first PC used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610 is invented in 1957 by IBM. | 1957-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1957-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 1.2 | Evidence of Lead smelting in Çatalhöyük | 6500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 6500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Asia Minor | ||||
| 5.30 | Revolver by Hans Stopler. | 1597-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1597-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.38 | Friction machine: Invented by Otto von Guericke. | 1663-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1663-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.3 | Movable type in Song Dynasty China: The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, which attributes the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 13th century, Koreans invent metal-type movable printing. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg invents the modern movable type system in Europe. | 1088-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1088-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.23 | Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy | 1475-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1475-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.16 | Richard Salter invents the earliest known design for a Weighting Scale. | 1770-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1770-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.14 | The crystal oscillator is invented by Alexander M. Nicholson using a crystal of Rochelle Salt although his priority was disputed by Walter Guyton Cady. | 1917-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1917-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.58 | Gregor Mendel publishes ‘Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden’ (“Experiments on Plant Hybridization”), effectively founding the science of genetics, though the importance of his work would not be appreciated until later on. | 1865-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1865-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.5 | Negative numbers in Han Dynasty China. | 0160-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0160-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.16 | The Quartz clock is invented by Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton at Bell Telephone Laboratories. | 1927-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1927-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.56 | Louis Pasteur invents the pasteurization process. | 1862-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1862-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.17 | Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle. | 1817-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1817-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.28 | Edwin Budding invents the lawn mower. | 1830-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1830-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.24 | Floyd Farris and J.B. Clark (Stanolind Oil and Gas Corporation) invents hydraulic fracturing technology. | 1947-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1947-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 1.11 | Papyrus in Egypt | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Africa | ||||
| 4.6 | Law school in Beirut, Roman Empire | 0170-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0170-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.41 | The first rimfire cartridge, one of the first and most widely used metallic cartridges for firearms, is produced by Nicolas Flobert. However, it lacked powder at first. | 1845-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1845-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.40 | The first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004 is invented. | 1971-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1971-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.30 | Moritz von Jacobi, a German-born Russian, invents the first practical electric motor. | 1834-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1834-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Eastern Europe | ||||
| 4.9 | Turbine in Africa (province), Roman Empire | 0300-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0300-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Africa | ||||
| 5.28 | Mercator Projection map created by Gerardus Mercator | 1569-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1569-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.76 | Karl Benz invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car). | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.39 | Friedrich Gottlob Keller and, independently, Charles Fenerty come up with the wood pulp method of paper production. | 1844-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1844-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.71 | Hiram Maxim invents the recoil-operated Maxim gun, ushering in the age of fully automatic and portable machine guns. | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.27 | Glass blowing discovered on the Lebanese coast. | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Middle East | ||||
| 5.41.52 | Using the principle of vapour compression, James Harrison produces the world’s first practical ice making machine and refrigerator in Geelong, Australia. | 1856-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1856-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Oceania | ||||
| 5.4 | Mariner’s compass (wet compass) in Song Dynasty China: The earliest recorded use of magnetized needle for navigational purposes at sea is found in Zhu Yu’s book Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119 (written from 1111 to 1117). The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water. The familiar mariner’s dry compass which uses a pivoting needle suspended above a compass-card in a glass box is invented in medieval Europe no later than 1300. | 1119-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1119-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.40.21 | Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. | 1783-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1783-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.43 | Nitroglycerin, the first explosive made that was stronger than black powder, is invented by Ascanio Sobrero. | 1847-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1847-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.30 | Fire lance in Song Dynasty China, developed in the 10th century with a tube of first bamboo and later on metal that shot a weak gunpowder blast of flame and shrapnel, its earliest depiction is a painting found at Dunhuang. Fire lance is the earliest firearm in the world and one of the earliest gunpowder weapon. | 0950-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0950-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.32 | Samuel Morse invents Morse code. | 1836-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1836-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.78 | James Blyth invents the first wind turbine used for generating electricity. | 1887-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1887-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.13 | James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser. | 1765-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1765-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.13 | Cannon in Ming Dynasty China | 1326-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1326-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 1.14 | Docks in Ancient Egypt | 2500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 2500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Africa | ||||
| 5.40.10 | John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process. | 1746-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1746-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.12 | James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. | 1764-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1764-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.11 | Oil Wells and Borehole drilling in China. Such wells could reach depths of up to 240 m (790 ft). | 0347-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0347-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 4.13 | Stirrups in Ancient China: The first dependable representation of a rider with paired stirrups was found in China in a Jin dynasty tomb of about AD 322. The stirrup appeared to be in widespread use across China by AD 477. | 0360-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0360-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.21 | William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet. | 1825-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1825-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.9 | Crane in Ancient Greece | 0515-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0515-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.22 | The Arquebus (also spelled Harquebus) is invented, possibly in Spain. | 1455-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1455-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.2 | Lenses in Ancient Greece | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 3.18 | Greek hydraulic semaphore system, an optical communication system developed by Aeneas Tacticus. | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.15 | Mainspring in Europe | 1340-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1340-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.25 | Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli | 1494-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1494-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.30 | Invention of Solar Battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the sun’s power. First practical means of collecting energy from the sun and turning it into a current of electricity. | 1954-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1954-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.6 | Rocket for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th century China. | 1240-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1240-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.59 | The Siemens-Martin process for making steel is invented by Carl Wilhelm Siemens and Pierre-Émile Martin. | 1865-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1865-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.3 | Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen’s engine, unlike Thomas Savery’s, uses a piston. | 1712-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1712-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.28 | Edward Jenner develops the first successful vaccine, the smallpox vaccine. | 1798-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1798-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.26 | Eli Whitney invents the modern cotton gin. | 1793-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1793-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.35 | Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti. | 1643-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1643-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.25 | The pinfire cartridge, one of the first and most widely used self-contained cartridges for firearms, is invented by Casimir Lefaucheux. | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.43 | VHS is invented by Yuma Shiraishi and Shizuo Takano. | 1973-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1973-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.44 | The Internet protocol suite is developed by Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ARPANET, creating the basis for the modern Internet. | 1974-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1974-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.2 | Early versions of the Bessemer process are developed in East Asia | 1070-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1070-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.79 | The Bayer process for the production of alumina is invented by Carl Josef Bayer. | 1887-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1887-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.11 | Hand cannon in Yuan Dynasty China: The earliest hand cannon dates to the 13th century based on archaeological evidence from a Heilongjiang excavation. There is also written evidence in the Yuanshi (1370) on Li Tang, an ethnic Jurchencommander under the Yuan Dynasty who in 1288 suppresses the rebellion of the Christian prince Nayan with his “gun-soldiers” or chongzu, this being the earliest known event where this phrase is used. | 1280-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1280-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 4 | 1st Millenium AD Inventions | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 | 910 years | 0960-01-01 00:00:00 | Blue | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/1st_millennium_montage.png | In this millenium, paper, steel, and gunpowder where just a small sample of the inventions in the 1st millennium. | ||||
| 3.14 | Crossbow in Ancient China and Ancient Greece: In Ancient China, the earliest evidence of bronze crossbow bolts dates as early as the mid-5th century BC in Yutaishan, Hubei. In Ancient Greece, theterminus ante quem of the gastraphetes is 421 BC. | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 5.8 | Explosive bomb in Jin dynasty Manchuria: Explosive bombs are used in 1221 by the Jin dynasty against a Song Dynasty city. The first accounts of bombs made of cast iron shells packed with explosive gunpowder are documented in the 13th century in China and are called “thunder-crash bombs”, coined during a Jin dynasty naval battle in 1231. | 1270-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1270-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 1.13 | Writing – Cuneiform in Mesopotamia | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Middle East | ||||
| 5.40 | 18th Century Inventions | 1700-01-01 00:00:00 | 99 years | 1799-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Red | |||||
| 5.40.18 | Jesse Ramsden invents the modern screw-cutting lathe. | 1775-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1775-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.15 | The Yagi-Uda Antenna or simply Yagi Antenna is invented by Shintaro Uda of Tohoku Imperial University, Japan, assisted by his colleague Hidetsugu Yagi. The Yagi Antenna was widely used by the US, British, and Germans during World War II. After the war they saw extensive development as home television antennas. | 1926-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1926-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 4.8 | Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor, Roman Empire | 0290-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0290-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Asia Minor | ||||
| 5.41.62 | The rotary kiln is invented by Frederick Ransome. | 1873-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1873-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.3 | Scissors in Europe | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 3.24 | Astrolabe invented in the Hellenistic world. | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 3.29 | Reverse overshot water-wheel by Roman engineers in Rio Tinto, Spain | 0040-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0040-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 3.10 | Traction trebuchet in Ancient China; appeared in the Mediterranean by the 6th century AD. | 0500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 3.19 | Valve Tower Sluice in Sri Lanka | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | South Asia | ||||
| 5.41.15 | Robert Stirling invents the Stirling engine. | 1816-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1816-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.7 | John Harrison tests his first Sea Clock, H1. | 1736-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1736-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.33 | Slide rule: invented by William Oughtred | 1630-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1630-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.75 | Heinrich Hertz conclusively demonstrates the existence of radio waves. However, the effects of electromagnetic waves had been independently observed by many people before and after him, with the earliest observation dating back to experiments conducted by Luigi Galvani in the late 18th century. | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.21 | Rifle in Europe | 1450-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1450-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.24 | The hot blast process is developed by James Beaumont Neilson. | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1828-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.33 | John Deere invents the first steel plow. | 1838-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1838-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 3.28 | Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy, Roman Republic | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.52 | MOSAIC, the first popular web browser is introduced | 1993-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1993-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.48 | Robert Bunsen is the first to use a chemical vapor deposition technique. | 1852-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1852-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.27 | Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press. | 1795-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1795-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.7 | The first free flight of a rotary-wing aircraft is carried out by Paul Cornu. | 1907-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1907-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.31 | Joseph Henry invents the electromechanical relay. | 1835-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1835-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.42.6 | Leo Baekeland invents bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic. | 1907-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1907-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 4.22 | Banknote in Tang Dynasty China: The banknote is first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties, starting in the 7th century. Its roots are in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618–907), as merchants and wholesalers desire to avoid the heavy bulk of copper coinage in large commercial transactions. | 0680-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0680-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.32 | Telescope: invented by Hans Lippershey in the Netherlands | 1608-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1608-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.53 | Heinrich Geissler invents the Geissler tube. | 1857-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1857-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.4 | Warship in Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon) | 0725-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0725-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Middle East | ||||
| 5.14 | Multistage rocket in Ming Dynasty China described in Huolongjing by Jiao Yu. | 1330-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1330-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 4.23 | Porcelain in Tang Dynasty China: True porcelain is manufactured in northern China from roughly the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century, while true porcelain was not manufactured in southern China until about 300 years later, during the early 10th century. | 0690-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0690-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 3.22 | Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283–246 BC) in Hellenistic Egypt | 0225-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0225-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Africa | ||||
| 5.42.8 | Cellophane is invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger. | 1908-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1908-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.38 | William Robert Grove invents the first fuel cell. | 1842-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1842-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.31 | Dry Docks in Song Dynasty China. | 0960-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0960-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.29 | Captain John Davis invents the Backstaff | 1594-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1594-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.3 | Seismometer in Han Dynasty China, built by Zhang Heng. It is a large metal urn-shaped instrument which employed either a suspended pendulum or inverted pendulum acting on inertia, like the ground tremors from earthquakes, to dislodge a metal ball by a lever trip device. | 0132-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0132-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 3.12 | Cast iron in Ancient China: Confirmed by archaeological evidence, the earliest cast iron is developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122–256 BC), the oldest specimens found in a tomb of Luhe County in Jiangsu province. | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.9 | Fritz Haber invents the Haber process. | 1909-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1909-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.16 | Mirror in Lebanon | 0400-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0400-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Middle East | ||||
| 3.26 | Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams) | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 4.27 | Algebra in Syria | 0860-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0860-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Middle East | ||||
| 3.8 | A wagonway called Diolkos across the Isthmus of Corinth in Ancient Greece. | 0550-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0550-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.77 | The Hall–Héroult process for economically producing aluminum invented by Charles Martin Hall and independently by Paul Héroult in 1886. | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1886-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America|Europe | ||||
| 5.9 | Torpedo by Hasan al-Rammah. | 1275-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1275-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Middle East | ||||
| 5.41.1 | The Voltaic pile, an early form of battery, is invented by Alessandro Volta in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani. | 1800-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1800-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.10 | Land mine in Song Dynasty China: Textual evidence suggests that the first use of a land mine in history is by a Song Dynasty brigadier general known as Lou Qianxia, who uses an ‘enormous bomb’ (huo pao) to kill Mongol soldiers invading Guangxi in 1277. | 1277-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1277-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.9 | Nicéphore Niépce invents the first internal combustion engine capable of doing useful work. | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.37 | Pendulum clock: Invented by Christiaan Huygens. It was first conceptulized in 1637 by Galileo Galilei but he was unable to create a working model. | 1656-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1656-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.38 | The pocket calculator is invented in Japan. | 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.3 | First manually controlled, fixed wing, motorized aircraft flies at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. First modern fixed wing aircraft. Gustave Weisskopf (Whitehead), a German-American immigrant, is credited with motorized aircraft flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1901. Flights are witnessed by citizens and other associates and recorded in the Bridgeport Herald, a local newspaper, but were not mentioned in a 1904 article in Scientific American. | 1903-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1903-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.46 | Sir William Armstrong invents the hydraulic accumulator. | 1850-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1850-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.25 | Claude Chappe invents the modern semaphore telegraph. | 1792-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1792-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.17 | Naval mine in Ming Dynasty China: Mentioned in the Huolongjing military manuscript written by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 15th century) and Liu Bowen (1311–1375), describing naval mines used at sea or on rivers and lakes, made of wrought iron and enclosed in an ox bladder. A later model is documented in Song Yingxing’s encyclopedia written in 1637. | 1360-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1360-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 3.17 | Gears in China. | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0350-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.70 | Thomas Edison produces the first practical lightbulb and is granted a U.S. patent. | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1879-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.42.2 | The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.20 | Water wheel and Liquid-driven escapement in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (c. 280 – 220 BC) | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.3 | John Dalton’s development of the Atomic Theory. | 1803-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1803-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.28 | University in Morocco | 0870-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0870-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Africa | ||||
| 4.20 | Toilet paper in Sui Dynasty China, first mentioned by the official Yan Zhitui (531–591), with full evidence of continual use in subsequent dynasties. | 0589-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0589-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.26 | The transistor, used in almost all modern electronic products is invented in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockley. Subsequent transistors became steadily smaller, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to manufacture, leading to a revolution in computers, controls, and communication. | 1947-12-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1947-12-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 3.11 | Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte, Sicily | 0480-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0480-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.18 | The electron microscope is invented by Ernst Ruska. | 1931-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1931-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.35 | James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer. | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.8 | François Isaac de Rivaz designs the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen. | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.20 | Printing press in Mainz, Germany: The printing press is invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg. | 1439-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1439-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.45 | Walter Hunt invents the first repeating rifle to use metallic cartridges (of his own design) and a spring-fed magazine. | 1849-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1849-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.16 | The first working electric telegraph is built by Francis Ronalds using electrostatic means. | 1816-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1816-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.23 | Blast furnace in Ancient China: The earliest discovered blast furnaces in China date to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, although most sites are from the later Han Dynasty. | 0200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0200-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.33 | Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. | 1959-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1959-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 2.2 | Musical notation in Sumer | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Middle East | ||||
| 5.5 | Soap in Babylonia | 1220-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1220-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Middle East | ||||
| 5.41.13 | Friedrich Koenig invents the first powered printing press which was also the first to use a cylinder. | 1811-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1811-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.39 | Email is invented by Ray Tomlinson. | 1971-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1971-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 4.25 | Numerical zero in Ancient India: The concept of zero as a number, and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed to India. In India, practical calculations are carried out using zero, which is treated like any other number by the 9th century, even in case of division. | 0840-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0840-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | South Asia | ||||
| 5.42.19 | FM radio is patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong. | 1933-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1933-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.81 | Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine (although Herbert Akroyd Stuart had experimented with compression ignition before Diesel). | 1893-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1893-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.10 | Robert Fulton expands water transportation and trade with the workable steamboat. | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.40.9 | Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor. | 1745-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1745-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.50 | James Clerk Maxwell invents the first practical method for color photography, whether chemical or electronic. | 1855-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1855-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.63 | Gustave Trouvé invents the first metal detector. | 1874-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1874-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.25 | Paper in Han Dynasty China: Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (born c. 50–121 AD) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new raw materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating to the 2nd century BC have been found in China, the oldest example of pulp papermaking being a map from Fangmatan, Gansu. | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0150-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | East Asia | ||||
| 5.34 | Mechanical calculator. The Pascaline is built by Blaise Pascal | 1642-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1642-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.4 | Hanaoka Seish? creates ts?sensan, the first modern general anesthetic. | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1804-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 2.5 | Seed drill in Babylonia | 1500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 1500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Middle East | ||||
| 5.40.4 | Henry Sully presented first Montre de la Mer to the French Académie des Sciences | 1716-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1716-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.1 | Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. | 1700-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1700-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.20 | Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. | 1783-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1783-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.18 | Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire | 0563-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0563-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Asia Minor | ||||
| 4.19 | Sulfur matches exist in China. | 0577-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0577-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 1.12 | Tin extraction in Central Asia | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Asia | ||||
| 5.42.11 | The cloud chamber, the first particle detector, is invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. | 1911-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1911-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.29 | Fireworks in Song Dynasty China: Fireworks first appear in China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279), in the early age of gunpowder. Fireworks could be purchased from market vendors; these were made of sticks of bamboo packed with gunpowder. | 0940-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0940-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.42 | The pinfire cartridge is upgraded by Benjamin Houllier to a fully metallic cartridge with powder, the first of its kind. | 1846-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1846-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.4 | Lacquer in China | 5500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 5500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.34 | The first functioning laser is invented by Theodore Maiman. | 1960-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1960-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.34 | Edmond Becquerel invents a method for the photovoltaic effect, effectively producing the first solar cell. | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1839-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 2.7 | Glass in Lebanon | 1000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 1000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Middle East | ||||
| 5.40.24 | Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. | 1789-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1789-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.16 | Horse collar in Southern and Northern Dynasties China: The horse collar as a fully developed collar harness is developed in Southern and Northern Dynasties China during the 5th century AD. The earliest depiction of it is a Dunhuang cave mural from the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty, the painting dated to 477–499. | 0440-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0440-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.67 | Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. | 1878-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1878-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.6 | Rowing oars in China | 4750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 4750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.45 | Altair 8800 is the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution. | 1975-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1975-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.40.5 | Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently develop the Octant | 1730-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1730-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | America|Europe | ||||
| 5.42.35 | The Shinkansen or Bullet Train is invented in Japan. | 1964-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1964-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 1.5 | Copper smelting in Serbia | 5000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 5000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Europe | ||||
| 5.42 | 20th Century Inventions | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | 95 years | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Green | |||||
| 5.41.72 | Modern steam turbine invented by Sir Charles Parsons. | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1884-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.47 | A CD-ROM contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data. | 1982-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1982-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe|East Asia | ||||
| 3.6 | Windmill in Persia | 0650-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0650-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Middle East | ||||
| 5.41.22 | The friction match is invented by John Walker. | 1826-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1826-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.7 | Woodblock printing is invented in Han Dynasty China at sometime before 220 AD. This made China become the world first print culture. | 0210-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0210-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.1 | Ambulance by Crusaders in Israel and Lebanon | 1050-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1050-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Middle East | ||||
| 3.7 | Lighthouse in Egypt | 0600-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0600-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Africa | ||||
| 5.42.17 | Penicillin is first observed to exude antibiotic substances by Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming. Development of medicinal penicillin is attributed to a team of medics and scientists including Howard Walter Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley. | 1928-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1928-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.49 | The first modern Disposable camera is invented by Fujifilm. | 1986-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1986-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.55 | Alexander Parkes invents parkesine, also known as celluloid, the first man-made plastic. | 1862-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1862-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.51 | The World Wide Web is first introduced to the public by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee. | 1990-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1990-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1 | Neolithic Inventions | 7750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 5250 years | 2500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | Lilac | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Egyptian_Domesticated_Animals.jpg/640px-Egyptian_Domesticated_Animals.jpg | The Neolithic Revolution was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to support an increasingly large population.These Settled communities permitted humans to observe and experiment with plants to learn how they grow and develop. This new knowledge and ways led to the domestication of plants. | ||||
| 5.41.47 | Henri Giffard becomes the first person to make a manned, controlled and powered flight using a dirigible. | 1852-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1852-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.19 | Heliography, the first photographic process, is invented by Nicéphore Niépce. | 1822-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1822-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41 | 19th Century Inventions | 1800-01-01 00:00:00 | 93 years | 1893-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Orange | |||||
| 4.24 | Mechanical clock in Tang Dynasty China by Yi Xing and Liang Lingzan. | 0725-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0725-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.7 | Alexander John Forsyth invents percussion ignition for firearms. | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1807-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.4 | The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. | 1903-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1903-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.19 | Brace in Flandres, Holy Roman Empire | 1425-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1425-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.44 | Jonathan J. Couch invents the pneumatic drill. | 1848-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1848-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.14 | The modern planing machine is invented by James Fox, though Matthew Murray of Leeds and Richard Roberts of Manchester have also been credited at times with its invention. | 1814-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1814-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.40 | Modern Portland cement is invented by Isaac Charles Johnson. | 1845-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1845-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.23 | Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. | 1786-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1786-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.27 | The first atomic clock is developed at the United States’s National Bureau of Standards. | 1948-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1948-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 3.13 | Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0450-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.23 | The atomic bomb is first successfully developed by the United States, Britain and Canada as a part of the Manhattan Project and swiftly deployed in August 1945 in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively causing the end of World War II. | 1945-07-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1945-07-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America|Europe | ||||
| 5.42.50 | The MP3 file is invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg. | 1989-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1989-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.12 | Nicolas Appert invents the canning process for food. | 1810-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1810-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.7 | Silk garments (sericulture) in China | 3630-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3630-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | East Asia | ||||
| 5.42.13 | The Czochralski process, widely used for the production of single crystal silicon, is invented by Jan Czochralski. | 1916-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1916-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.20 | Z1 built by Konrad Zuse is the first freely programmable computer in the world. | 1938-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1938-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.64 | A patent for the telephone is granted to Alexander Graham Bell. However, others inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. | 1876-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1876-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.41.51 | The Bessemer process for making steel is patented by Sir Henry Bessemer, with improvements made by others over the following years. | 1855-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1855-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.17 | Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia, Eastern Roman Empire | 0500-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0500-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Asia Minor | ||||
| 2 | 2nd Millenium BC Inventions | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1000 years | 1000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | Purple | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_millennium_BC|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Solvogn.jpg | The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. Its first half is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops. Indo-Iranian migration onto the Iranian plateau and onto the Indian subcontinent propagates the use of the chariot. Chariot warfare and population movements lead to violent changes at the center of the millennium, a new order emerges with Greek dominance of the Aegean and the rise of the Hittite Empire. The end of the millennium sees the transition to the Iron Age. World population begins to rise steadily, reaching some 50 million towards 1000 BC. | ||||
| 5.42.22 | The V-2 rocket, the world’s first long range ballistic missile, developed in Nazi Germany during World War II. | 1942-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1942-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.18 | Fragmentation Bombs in Ming Dynasty China. Described in the Huolongjing. | 1372-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1372-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.29 | Michael Faraday invents a method of electromagnetic induction. It would be independently invented by Joseph Henry the following year. | 1831-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1831-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 1.3 | Kiln in Mesopotamia | 6000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 6000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Middle East | ||||
| 5.27 | Floating Dry Dock in Venice, Venetian Republic | 1560-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1560-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.42.29 | The first Thermonuclear weapon is developed by the United States of America. | 1952-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1952-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 4.1 | The Aeolipile, a simple steam turbine is recorded by Hero of Alexandria. | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0050-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Europe | ||||
| 5.40.6 | Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure. | 1733-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1733-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 2.1 | Chariot in Russia and Kazakhstan | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 2 | Purple | Asia | ||||
| 1.8 | Wheels in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus | 3500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 3500-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 1 | Lilac | Middle East | ||||
| 5.16 | Jacob’s staff invented by Levi ben Gerson | 1345-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1345-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3.21 | Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills) | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 0 seconds | 0250-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 3 | Teal | Europe | ||||
| 5.41.54 | Gaston Planté invents the lead acid battery, the first rechargeable battery. | 1859-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1859-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.2 | Wheelbarrow was found in a tomb at Chengdu, Sichuan province during Han Dynasty China | 0118-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0118-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | East Asia | ||||
| 5.41.66 | The first working phonograph is invented by Thomas Edison. | 1877-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1877-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.41 | Light Green | America | ||||
| 5.40.11 | William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine. | 1755-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1755-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.40 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 3 | 1st Millenium BC Inventions | 0750-01-01 00:00:00 BC | 710 years | 0040-01-01 00:00:00 BC | Teal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_millennium_BC|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/NAMA_Machine_d%27Anticyth%C3%A8re_1.jpg | The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of many successive empires, and spanned from 1000 BC to 1 BC. Graeco-Roman Europe, India and China see the rise of literature. World population greatly increases in the course of the millennium, reaching some 170 to 400 million people at its close depending on the estimates used. | ||||
| 5.42.25 | Holography is invented by Dennis Gabor. | 1947-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1947-01-01 00:00:00 | 5.42 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 5.39 | Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine. | 1680-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 1680-01-01 00:00:00 | 5 | Light Green | Europe | ||||
| 4.14 | Street Light in Syria | 0370-01-01 00:00:00 | 0 seconds | 0370-01-01 00:00:00 | 4 | Blue | Middle East |