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Timeline of notable events in the history of inventions

The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known.

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Sometimes inventions are invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a more practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here.

A proportion of all discoveries within the United States made during the 20th^[1] (after 1943^[2]) and 21st centuries were made within skunk work enterprises.^[1]

Paleolithic [edit]

The dates listed in this section refer to the earliest evidence of an invention found and dated by archaeologists (or in a few cases, suggested by indirect evidence). Dates are often approximate and change as more research is done, reported and seen. Older examples of any given technology are found often. The locations listed are for the site where the earliest solid evidence has been found, but especially for the earlier inventions, there is little certainty how close that may be to where the invention took place.

Lower Paleolithic [edit]

The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, and corresponds to the human species prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens. The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (Mya), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being Australopithecus anamensis. This time period is characterized as an ice age with regular periodic warmer periods – interglacial episodes.

• 3.3-2.6 Mya: Stone tools – found in present-day Kenya, they are so old that only a pre-human species could have invented them.^[3] The otherwise earliest known stone tools (Oldowan) were found in Ethiopia^[4] developed perhaps by Australopithecus garhi or Homo habilis ^{[5] [6]}
• 2.3 Mya: Earliest likely control of fire and cooking, by Homo habilis ^{[7] [8] [9]}
• 1.76 Mya: Advanced (Acheulean) stone tools in Kenya by Homo erectus ^{[10] [11]}
• 1.5 Mya: Bone tools in Africa.^[12]
• 900-40 kya: Boats.^{[13] [14]}
• 500 kya: Hafting in South Africa.^[15]
• 400 kya: Pigments in Zambia^[16]
• 400-300 kya: Spears in Germany^{[17] [18]} likely by Homo heidelbergensis
• 350-150 kya: Estimated origin of language^[19]

Middle Paleolithic [edit]

The dawn of Homo sapiens around 300 kya coincides with the start of the Middle Paleolithic period. Towards the middle of this 250,000-year period, humans begin to migrate out of Africa, and the later part of the period shows the beginning of long-distance trade, religious rites and other behavior associated with Behavioral modernity.

• c. 320 kya: The trade and long-distance transportation of resources (e.g. obsidian), use of pigments, and possible making of projectile points in Kenya^{[20] [21] [22]}
• 279 kya: Early stone-tipped projectile weapons in Ethiopia^[23]
• c. 200 kya: Glue in Central Italy by Neanderthals.^[24] More complicated compound adhesives developed by Homo sapiens have been found from c. 70 ka Sibudu, South Africa^[25] and have been regarded as a sign of cognitive advancement.^[26]
• 170-83 kya: Clothing (among anatomically modern humans in Africa).^[27] Some other evidence suggests that humans may have begun wearing clothing as far back as 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.^[28]
• 164-47 kya: Heat treating of stone blades in South Africa.^[29]
• 135-100 kya: Beads in Israel and Algeria^[30]
• 100 kya: Compound paints made in South Africa^{[31] [32] [33]}
• 100 kya: Funerals (in the form of burial) in Israel^[34]
• 90 kya: Harpoons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[35]
• 77 kya: Beds in South Africa^[36]
• 70-60 kya: Oldest arrows (and evidence of bow-and-arrow technology), and oldest needle, at Sibudu, South Africa^{[37] [38] [39] [40] [41]}

Upper Paleolithic to Early Mesolithic [edit]

50 ka has been regarded by some as the beginning of behavioral modernity, defining the Upper Paleolithic period, which lasted nearly 40,000 years (though some research dates the beginning of behavioral modernity earlier to the Middle Paleolithic). This is characterized by the widespread observation of religious rites, artistic expression and the appearance of tools made for purely intellectual or artistic pursuits.

• 49-30 ka: Ground stone tools – fragments of an axe in Australia date to 49-45 ka, more appear in Japan closer to 30 ka, and elsewhere closer to the Neolithic.^{[42] [43]}
• 47 ka: The oldest-known mines in the world are from Swaziland, and extracted hematite for the production of the red pigment ochre.^{[44] [45]}
• 45 ka: Shoes, as evidenced by changes in foot bone morphology in Eurasia^[46] Bark sandals), dated to 10 to 9 ka were found in Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938.^[47] Oldest leather shoe (Areni-1 shoe), 5.5 ka.^[48]
• 44–42 ka: Tally sticks (see Lebombo bone) in Swaziland^[49]
• 43.7 ka: Cave painting in Indonesia^{[50] [51]}
• 37 ka: Mortar and pestle in Southwest Asia^[52]
• 36 ka: Weaving – Indirect evidence from Czechia,^[53] Georgia^[54] and Moravia.^[55] The earliest actual piece of woven cloth was found in Çatalhöyük, Turkey.^{[56] [57]}
• 35 ka: Flute in Germany^[58]
• 33-10 ka: Star chart in France^[59] and Spain^[60]
• 28 ka: Rope^[61]
• 26 ka: Ceramics in Europe^[62]
• 23 ka: Domestication of the dog in Siberia.^[63]
• 19 ka: Bullroarer in Ukraine^[64]
• 16 ka: Pottery in China^[65]
• 14.5 ka: Bread in Jordan^{[66] [67]}

Agricultural and proto-agricultural eras [edit]

The end of the Last Glacial Period ("ice age") and the beginning of the Holocene around 11.7 ka coincide with the Agricultural Revolution, marking the beginning of the agricultural era, which persisted until the industrial revolution.

Neolithic and Late Mesolithic [edit]

During the Neolithic period, lasting 8400 years, stone remained the predominant material for toolmaking, although copper and arsenic bronze were developed towards the end of this period.

• 12-11 ka: Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent^{[68] [69]}
• 12–11 ka: Domestication of sheep in Southwest Asia^{[70] [71]} (followed shortly by pigs, goats and cattle)
• 11-8 ka: Domestication of rice in China^[72]
• 11 ka: Constructed stone monument – Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey^[73]
• 9000 BC: Mudbricks, and clay mortar in Jericho.^{[74] [75] [76]}
• 8000–7500 BC: Proto-city – large permanent settlements, such as Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) and Çatalhöyük, Turkey.^[77]
• 7000 BC: Alcohol fermentation – specifically mead, in China^[78]
• 7000 BC: Sled dog and Dog sled, in Siberia.^[79]
• 7000 BC: Tanned leather in Mehrgarh, Pakistan.
• 6500 BC: Evidence of lead smelting in Çatalhöyük, Turkey^[80]
• 6000 BC: Kiln in Mesopotamia (Iraq)^[81]
• 6th millennium BC: Irrigation in Khuzistan, Iran^{[82] [83]}
• 6000-3200 BC: Proto-writing in present day Egypt, Iraq, Serbia, China and Pakistan.^[84]
• 5000 BC: Copper smelting in Serbia^[85]
• 5000 BC: Seawall in Israel^[86]
• 5th millennium BC: Lacquer in China^{[87] [88]}
• 5000 BC: Cotton thread, in Mehrgarh, Pakistan, connecting the copper beads of a bracelet.^{[89] [90] [91]}
• 5000–4500 BC: Rowing oars in China^{[92] [93]}
• 4500–3500 BC: Lost-wax casting in Israel^[94] or the Indus Valley^[95]
• 4400 BC: Fired bricks in China.^[96]
• 4000 BC: Probable time period of the first diamond-mines in the world, in Southern India.^[97]
• Around 4000 BC: Paved roads, in and around the Mesopotamian city of Ur, Iraq.^[98]
• 4000 BC: Plumbing. The earliest pipes were made of clay, and are found at the Temple of Bel at Nippur in Babylonia.^[99] Earthen pipes were later used in the Indus Valley c. 2700 BC for a city-scale urban drainage system,^[100] and more durable copper drainage pipes appeared in Egypt, by the time of the construction of the Pyramid of Sahure at Abusir, c.2400 BCE.^[101]
• 4000–3500 BC: Wheel: potter's wheels in Mesopotamia and wheeled vehicles in Mesopotamia (Sumerian civilization), the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe (Cucuteni–Trypillia culture).^{[102] [103] [104]}
• 3630 BC: Silk garments (sericulture) in China^[105]
• 3500 BC: Domestication of the horse in the Eurasian Steppes.^{[106] [107] [108]}
• 3500 BC: Wine as general anesthesia in Sumer.^[109]
• 3500 BC: Seal (emblem) invented around in the Near East, at the contemporary sites of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia and slightly later at Susa in south-western Iran during the Proto-Elamite period, and they follow the development of stamp seals in the Halaf culture or slightly earlier.^[110]
• 3400-3100 BC: Tattoos in southern Europe^{[111] [112]}

Bronze Age [edit]

The beginning of bronze-smelting coincides with the emergence of the first cities and of writing in the Ancient Near East and the Indus Valley. The Bronze Age is taken as a 2000-year long period starting in 3300 BC and ending in 1300 BC.

• 3300 BC: City in Sumer.
• 3300 BC: Writing – Cuneiform in Sumer, Mesopotamia (Iraq)^[113]
• 3300 BC: Copper-tin bronze in Sumer.
• Before 3200 BC: dry Latrines in the city of Uruk, Iraq, with later dry squat Toilets, that added raised fired brick foot platforms, and pedestal toilets, all over clay pipe constructed drains.^{[114] [115] [116]}
• 3200 BC: Sailing in ancient Egypt^{[117] [118]}
• Before 3000 BC: Devices functionally equivalent to dice, in the form of flat two-sided throwsticks, are seen in the Egyptian game of Senet.^[119] Later, terracotta dice resembling modern ones were used at the Indus Valley site of Mohenjo-Daro (Pakistan).^[120]
• 3000 BC: Tin extraction in Central Asia^[121]
• 3000 BC: Bronze in Mesopotamia^[122]
• 3000-2560 BC: Papyrus in Egypt^{[123] [124] [125]}
• 3000 BC: Comb in Persia.^[126]
• 3000 BC: Reservoir in Girnar, Indus Valley (India).^[127]
• 3000 BC: Distillation in Indus Valley (modern-day Pakistan).^[128]
• 3000 BC: Sea-going ships by Austronesians (modern-day Southern China, Taiwan)^{[129] [130] [131]}
• 3000 BC: Receipt in Ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq)^[132]
• 2800 BC: Latest possible data for invention of ploughing, Kalibangan, Indus Valley (India).^[133]
• c. 2600 BC: Planned city in Indus Valley (India, Pakistan).^{[134] [135]}
• By 2650 BC: The Ruler, or Measuring rod, in the subdivided Nippur, copper rod. Shell, Terracotta, Copper, and Ivory rulers were in use by the Indus Valley Civilisation in what today is Pakistan, and North West India, prior to 1500 BCE.^[136]
• c. 2600 BC: Public sewage and sanitation systems in Indus Valley sites such as Mohenjo-Daro and Rakhigarhi.^[137]
• c. 2600 BC: Public bath in Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley (Pakistan).^[138]
• 2600 BC: Levee in Indus Valley (India, Pakistan).^[139]
• By 2556 BC: Docks in either Egypt or the Indus Valley. A harbor structure has been excavated in Wadi al-Jarf, which is believed to have been developed during the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu (2589–2566 B.C).^{[140] [125]} A competing claim is from Lothal dockyard in India,^{[141] [142] [143] [144] [145]} constructed at some point between 2400-2000 BC;^[146] however, more precise dating does not exist.
• 3000-2500 BC: Rhinoplasty in Egypt.^{[147] [148]}
• 2500 BC: Puppetry in the Indus Valley.^{[149] [150]}
• 2500 BC: Dictionary in Mesopotamia
• c. 2400 BC: Copper pipes, the Pyramid of Sahure, and adjoining temple complex at Abusir, was discovered to have a network of copper drainage pipes.^[101]
• after 2400 BC: Protractor in Lothal, Indus Valley (Present day India).^{[151] [152]}
• after 2400 BC: Weighing scales in Lothal, Indus Valley (India).^[153]
• 2400 BC: Touchstone in the Indus Valley site of Banawali (India).^[154]
• Around 2000 BC: Water clock by at least the old Babylonian period (c. 2000 – c. 1600 BC),^[155] but possibly earlier from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley.^[156]
• 2000 BC: Musical notation in Sumer^[157]
• 2000 BC: Chariot in Russia and Kazakhstan^[158]
• 2000 BC: Glass in Ancient Egypt^[159]
• 2000 BC: Fountain in Lagash, Sumer (modern Iraq)
• By at least 1500 BC: Sundial in Babylonia.
• 1500 BC: Seed drill in Babylonia^[160]
• 1500 BC: Scissors in Ancient Egypt^[161]
• before 1400 BC: Rubber, Mesoamerican ballgame.^{[162] [163]}
• 1300 BC: Lathe in Ancient Egypt^[164]
• 1400-1200 BC: Concrete in Tiryns (Mycenaean Greece).^{[165] [166]} Waterproof concrete was later developed by the Assyrians in 688 BC,^[167] and the Romans developed concretes that could set underwater.^[168] The Romans later used concrete extensively for construction from 300 BC to 476 AD.^[169]

Iron Age [edit]

The Late Bronze Age collapse occurs around 1300-1175 BC, extinguishing most Bronze-Age Near Eastern cultures, and significantly weakening the rest. This is coincident with the complete collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation. This event is followed by the beginning of the Iron Age. We define the Iron Age as ending in 510 BC for the purposes of this article, even though the typical definition is region-dependent (e.g. 510 BC in Greece, 322 BC in India, 200 BC in China), thus being an 800-year period.

It's worth noting the uncertainty in dating several Indian developments between 600 BC and 300 AD, due to the tradition that existed of editing existing documents (such as the Sushruta Samhita and Arthashastra) without specifically documenting the edit. Most such documents were canonized at the start of the Gupta empire (mid-3rd century AD).

• 1300 BC: Iron smelting in the Hittite Empire of the Middle East.^{[170] [171]}
• 700 BC: Saddle (fringed cloths or pads used by Assyrian cavalry)^[172]
• 650 BC: Crossbow in China.^[173]
• 600 BC: Coins in Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon) or Lydia^[174]
• Late 7th or early 6th century BC: Wagonway called Diolkos across the Isthmus of Corinth in Ancient Greece

With the Greco-Roman trispastos ("three-pulley-crane"), the simplest ancient crane, a single man tripled the weight he could lift than with his muscular strength alone.^[175]

• 6th century BC: Steel (as Wootz steel) in South India.^{[176] [177]}
• 6th century BC: First known ancient use of nanoparticles in Wootz Steel in South India.^[178] Later uses include the Roman Lycurgus Cup.
• 6th century BC: Crucible method in South India.^[177]
• 6th century BC: University in Taxila in Ancient India (modern-day Pakistan).
• 6th century BC: Systematization of medicine and surgery in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic Northern India.^{[179] [180]}
• 6th to 2nd centuries BC (historical layers of the development of the Sushruta Samhita^[181]): Cataract surgery (Couching) in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic or Mauryan India.
• 6th to 2nd centuries BC: Caesarean section in the Sushruta Samhita (India).^[182]
• 6th to 2nd centuries BC: Prosthetic limb in the Sushruta Samhita (India).^[182]
• 6th to 2nd centuries BC: Plastic surgery in the Sushruta Samhita (India).^{[182] [183]}
• Late 6th century BC: Crank motion (rotary quern) in Carthage^[184] or 5th century BC Celtiberian Spain^{[185] [186]} Later during the Roman empire, a mechanism appeared that incorporated a connecting rod.
• Before 5th century BC: Loan deeds in Upanishadic India.^[187]
• c. 515 BC: Crane in Ancient Greece^[188]
• 500 BC Lighthouse in Greece^[189]

Classical antiquity and medieval era [edit]

5th century BC [edit]

• 500 BC: The earliest manifestation of the stirrup was widely used in India in the 2nd century BC,^{[190] [191]} although may have originated as early as 500 BC.^[192]
• 485 BC:^[193] Catapult by Ajatashatru in Magadha, India.^[194]
• 485 BC:^[193] Scythed chariot by Ajatashatru in Magadha, India.^[194]
• 5th century BC: 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.^{[195] [196] [197]}
• c. 480 BC: Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte, Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)^{[198] [199]}
• By 407 BC: Wheelbarrow in Greece.^[200]

4th century BC [edit]

Egyptian reed pens inside ivory and wooden palettes, the Louvre^[201]

• 4th century BC: Traction trebuchet in Ancient China.^[202]
• 4th century BC: Gears in Ancient China
• 4th century BC: Reed pens, utilising a split nib, were used to write, with ink, on Papyrus, in Egypt.^[202]
• 375–350 BC: Animal-driven rotary mill in Carthage.^{[203] [204]}
• By the late 4th century BC: Corporations in either the Maurya Empire of India^[205] or in Ancient Rome (Collegium).
• Late 4th century BC: Cheque in the Maurya Empire of India.^[206]
• Late 4th century BC: Potassium nitrate manufacturing and military use in the Seleucid Empire.^[207]
• Late 4th century BC: Formal systems by Pāṇini in India, possibly during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya.^[208]
• 4th to 3rd century BC: Zinc production in North-Western India during the Maurya Empire.^[209] The earliest known zinc mines and smelting sites are from Zawar, near Udaipur, in Rajasthan.^{[210] [211]}

3rd century BC [edit]

An illustration depicting the papermaking process in Han Dynasty China.

• 3rd century BC: Analog computers in the Hellenistic world (see e.g. the Antikythera mechanism), possibly in Rhodes.^[212]
• By at least the 3rd century BC: Archimedes screw in Ancient Greece^[213]
• Early 3rd century BC: Canal lock in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283–246 BC) in Hellenistic Egypt^{[214] [215] [216]}
• 3rd century BC: Cam during the Hellenistic period, used in water-driven automata.^[217]
• By the 3rd century BC: Water wheel. The origin is unclear: Indian Pali texts dating to the 4th century BCE refer to the cakkavattaka, which later commentaries describe as arahatta-ghati-yanta (machine with wheel-pots attached). Helaine Selin suggests that the device existed in Persia before 350 BC.^[218] The clearest description of the water wheel and Liquid-driven escapement is provided by Philo of Byzantium (c. 280 – 220 BC) in the Hellenistic kingdoms.^[219]
• 3rd century BC: Gimbal described Philo of Byzantium^[220]
• Late 3rd century BC: Dry dock under Ptolemy IV (221–205 BC) in Hellenistic Egypt^[221]
• 3rd–2nd century BC: 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.^{[195] [222]}

2nd century BC [edit]

• 2nd century BC: 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.^[224]
• Early 2nd century BC: Astrolabe invented by Apollonius of Perga.

1st century BC [edit]

• 1st century BC: Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy, Roman Republic^{[225] [226]}
• 1st century BC: News bulletin during the reign of Julius Caesar.^[227] A paper form, i.e. the earliest newspaper, later appeared during the late Han dynasty in the form of the Dibao.^{[228] [229] [230]}
• 1st century BC: Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)^{[231] [232] [233] [234] [235]}
• Before 40 BC: Trip hammer in China^[236]
• 38 BC: an empty shell Glyph for zero, is found on a Maya numerals Stela, from Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas.
• Before 25 BC: Reverse overshot water-wheel by Roman engineers in Rio Tinto, Spain^[237]
• 37-14: Glass blowing developed in Jerusalem.^{[238] [239] [240]}

1st century [edit]

• 1st century: The Aeolipile, a simple steam turbine is recorded by Hero of Alexandria.^[241]
• 1st century: Vending machines invented by Hero of Alexandria.
• By the 1st century: The double-entry bookkeeping system in the Roman Empire. ^[242]
• By 50 AD: Flamethrowers by the Early Cholas of Southern India (according to the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea).^{[243] [244]}

2nd century [edit]

• 132: Seismometer and pendulum 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.^{[245] [246]}
• 2nd century: Carding in India.^[247]

3rd century [edit]

• By at least the 3rd century: Crystallized sugar in India.^[251]
• Early 3rd century: Woodblock printing is invented in Han Dynasty China at sometime before 220 AD. This made China become the world's first print culture.^[252]
• Late 3rd–early 4th century: Water turbine in the Roman Empire in modern-day Tunisia.^{[253] [254] [255]}

4th century [edit]

• 280-550 AD:^[256] Chess in India during the Gupta Empire.^{[257] [258]}
• 4th century: Mariner's compass in Tamil Southern India: the first mention of the use of a compass for navigational purposes is found in Tamil nautical texts as the macchayantra.^{[259] [260]} However, the theoretical notion of magnets pointing North predates the device by several centuries.
• 4th century: Cable suspension bridge in India, with early cables made of plaited bamboo and later cables of steel chain.^[261]
• 4th century: Fishing reel in Ancient China: In literary records, the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a 4th-century AD^[262] work entitled Lives of Famous Immortals.^[263]
• 347 AD: Oil Wells and Borehole drilling in China. Such wells could reach depths of up to 240 m (790 ft).^[264]
• 4th–5th century: Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire^[265]

5th century [edit]

• By the 5th century: Numerical zero in Ancient India: The concept of zero as a number, and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed to India.^[266] In India, practical calculations are carried out using zero, which is treated like any other number by at least the time of Aryabhata,^{[267] [268] [269]} even in case of division.^{[266] [270]}
• 400 AD: The construction of the Iron pillar of Delhi in Mathura by the Gupta Empire shows the development of rust-resistant ferrous metallurgy in Ancient India,^{[271] [272]} although original texts do not survive to detail the specific processes invented in this period.
• 5th century: 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.^[273] The earliest depiction of it is a Dunhuang cave mural from the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty, the painting dated to 477–499.^[274]
• 5th/6th century: Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia, Eastern Roman Empire^{[275] [276]}

6th century [edit]

• By the 6th century: Incense clock in India and China.^{[277] [278]}
• after 500 AD: Charkha (spinning wheel/cotton gin): invented in India (probably during the Vakataka dynasty of Maharashtra), between 500 and 1000 A.D.^[279]
• 563 AD: Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire^[280]
• 577 AD: Sulfur matches exist in China.
• 589 AD: Toilet paper in Sui Dynasty China, first mentioned by the official Yan Zhitui (531–591), with full evidence of continual use in subsequent dynasties.^{[281] [282]}

7th century [edit]

• 650 AD Windmill in Persia^[283]
• 672 AD: 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.^[284] However, the historicity and exact chronology of this account is dubious,^[285] and it could be that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.^[286]
• 7th century: 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.^{[287] [288] [289]}
• 7th century: 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.^[290]

8th century [edit]

• 700 AD: Manmade pinhole camera, still extant, in the Virupaksha Temple in Karnataka, India, during the Chalukyas of Vatapi.

9th century [edit]

• 9th century: 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.^[291] Evidence of gunpowder's first use in China comes from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (618–907).^[292] The earliest known recorded recipes for gunpowder are written by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in the Wujing Zongyao, a military manuscript compiled in 1044 during the Song Dynasty (960–1279).^{[293] [294] [295]}
• 9th century: Degree-granting university in Morocco^[296]

10th century [edit]

• 10th century: 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.^[297] Fire lance is the earliest firearm in the world and one of the earliest gunpowder weapons.^{[298] [299]}
• 10th century: 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.^[300]

11th century [edit]

• 11th century: Ambulance by Crusaders in Palestine and Lebanon^[301]
• 11th century: Early versions of the Bessemer process are developed in China.
• 11th century: Endless power-transmitting chain drive by Su Song for the development an astronomical clock (the Cosmic Engine)^[302]
• 1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty China: The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays, which attributes the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng.^{[303] [304] [305] [306]}

12th century [edit]

• 12th century: Bond trading in France.^[307]

13th century [edit]

• 13th century: Rocket for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China.^[308]
• 13th century: The earliest form of mechanical escapement, the verge escapement in Europe.^[309]
• 13th century: Buttons (combined with buttonholes) as a functional fastening or closing clothes appear first in Germany.^[310]
• 1277: 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.^[311]
• 1286: Eyeglasses in Italy^[312]
• 13th century: Explosive bomb in Jin dynasty Manchuria: Explosive bombs are used in 1221 by the Jin dynasty against a Song Dynasty city.^[313] 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",^[314] coined during a Jin dynasty naval battle in 1231.^[315]
• 13th century: 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 Jurchen commander 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.^[316]
• 13th or 14th century: worm gear cotton gin in Peninsular India (i.e. probably under the Yadava dynasty although may also be the Vijayanagara Empire or Bahmani Sultanate).^[317]

14th century [edit]

• Early to Mid 1300s: Multistage rocket in Ming Dynasty China described in Huolongjing by Jiao Yu.
• By at least 1326: Cannon in Ming Dynasty China^[318]
• 14th century: Jacob's staff described by Levi ben Gerson
• 14th century: 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.^[319]

15th century [edit]

• Early 15th century: Coil spring in Europe^[321]
• 15th century: Mainspring in Europe^[321]
• 15th century: Rifle in Europe
• 1420s: Brace in Flandres, Holy Roman Empire^[322]
• 1439: Printing press in Mainz, Germany: The printing press is invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg before 1440, based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.^[323]
• Mid 15th Century: The Arquebus (also spelled Harquebus) is invented, possibly in Spain.^{[324] [325]}
• 1451: Caravel, a small, highly-maneuverable sailing ship developed by the Portuguese
• 1480s: Mariner's astrolabe in Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa^[326]

16th century [edit]

• 1560: Floating Dry Dock in Venice, Venetian Republic^[327]
• 1569: Mercator Projection map created by Gerardus Mercator
• 1589: Stocking frame: Invented by William Lee.^[328]
• 1594: Backstaff: Invented by Captain John Davis.
• By at least 1597: Revolver: Invented by Hans Stopler.

Modern era [edit]

17th century [edit]

A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper (first published in 1605)^{[329] [330]}

• 1605: Newspaper (Relation): Johann Carolus in Strassburg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)^{[329] [330]}
• 1608: Telescope: Patent applied for by Hans Lippershey in the Netherlands. Actual inventor unknown since it seemed to already be a common item being offered by the spectacle makers in the Netherlands with Jacob Metius also applying for patent and the son of Zacharias Janssen making a claim 47 years later that his father invented it.
• c. 1620: Compound microscopes, which combine an objective lens with an eyepiece to view a real image, first appear in Europe. Apparently derived from the telescope, actual inventor unknown, variously attributed to Zacharias Janssen (his son claiming it was invented in 1590), Cornelis Drebbel, and Galileo Galilei.^[331]
• 1630: Slide rule: invented by William Oughtred^{[332] [333]}
• 1642: Mechanical calculator. The Pascaline is built by Blaise Pascal
• 1643: Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti.^[334]
• 1650: Vacuum pump: Invented by Otto von Guericke.
• 1656: Pendulum clock: Invented by Christiaan Huygens. It was first conceptualized in 1637 by Galileo Galilei but he was unable to create a working model.
• 1663: Friction machine: Invented by Otto von Guericke.
• 1680: Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine.^[335]

18th century [edit]

1700s [edit]

• c. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano.
• 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.

1710s [edit]

• 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines.^[336] Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston.

1730s [edit]

• c. 1730: Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently develop the octant
• 1733: John Kay enables one person to operate a loom with the flying shuttle^[337]
• 1736: John Harrison tests his first Sea Clock, H1.
• 1738: Lewis Paul and John Wyatt invent the first mechanized cotton spinning machine.

1740s [edit]

• 1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor.
• 1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process.

1750s [edit]

• 1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine.

1760s [edit]

• 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
• 1765: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser.
• 1767: Joseph Priestley invents a method for the production of carbonated water.
• 1769: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam-powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers, an early car.

1770s [edit]

• 1770: Richard Salter invents the earliest known design for a weighing scale.
• 1774: John Wilkinson invents his boring machine, considered by some to be the first machine tool.
• 1775: Jesse Ramsden invents the modern screw-cutting lathe.
• 1776: John Wilkinson invents a mechanical air compressor that would become the prototype for all later mechanical compressors.

1780s [edit]

• 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat.
• 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon.
• 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute.
• 1785: Martinus van Marum is the first to use the electrolysis technique.
• 1786: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
• 1789: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.

1790s [edit]

• 1790: Thomas Saint invents the sewing machine.
• 1792: Claude Chappe invents the modern semaphore telegraph.
• 1793: Eli Whitney invents the modern cotton gin.
• 1795: Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press.
• 1796: Alois Senefelder invents the lithography printing technique.^[338]
• 1797: Samuel Bentham invents plywood.
• 1798: Edward Jenner develops the first successful vaccine, the smallpox vaccine.
• 1799: George Medhurst invents the first motorized air compressor.
• 1799: The first paper machine is invented by Louis-Nicolas Robert.

19th century [edit]

1800s [edit]

• 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile, an early form of battery in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani.
• 1802: Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators).^[339]
• 1804: Friedrich Sertürner discovers morphine as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant.^[340]
• 1804: Richard Trevithick invents the steam locomotive.^[341]
• 1804: Hanaoka Seishū creates tsūsensan, the first modern general anesthetic.^[342]
• 1807: Nicéphore Niépce invents the first internal combustion engine capable of doing useful work.
• 1807: François Isaac de Rivaz designs the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen.
• 1807: Robert Fulton expands water transportation and trade with the workable steamboat.

1810s [edit]

Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse in 1819

• 1810: Nicolas Appert invents the canning process for food.
• 1810: Abraham-Louis Breguet creates the first wristwatch.^[343]
• 1811: Friedrich Koenig invents the first powered printing press, which was also the first to use a cylinder.
• 1812: William Reid Clanny pioneered the invention of the safety lamp which he improved in later years. Safety lamps based on Clanny's improved design were used until the adoption of electric lamps.
• 1814: James Fox invents the modern planing machine, though Matthew Murray of Leeds and Richard Roberts of Manchester have also been credited at times with its invention.
• 1816: Francis Ronalds builds the first working electric telegraph using electrostatic means.
• 1816: Robert Stirling invents the Stirling engine.^[344]
• 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle.
• 1818: Marc Isambard Brunel invents the tunnelling shield.

1820s [edit]

• 1822: Thomas Blanchard invents the pattern-tracing lathe (actually more like a shaper) and was completed by 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.^{[345] [346]}
• 1822: Nicéphore Niépce invents Heliography, the first photographic process.
• 1822: Charles Babbage, considered the "father of the computer",^[347] begins building the first programmable mechanical computer.
• 1823: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner invents the first lighter.
• 1824: Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse invents the bolt-action rifle.^[348]
• 1825: William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet.
• 1826: John Walker invents the friction match.^[349]
• 1828: James Beaumont Neilson develops the hot blast process.
• 1828: Patrick Bell invents the reaping machine.
• 1828: Hungarian physicist Ányos Jedlik invents the first commutated rotary electromechanical machine with electromagnets.
• 1829: William Mann invents the compound air compressor.

1830s [edit]

• 1830: Edwin Budding invents the lawn mower.
• 1831: Michael Faraday invents a method of electromagnetic induction. It would be independently invented by Joseph Henry the following year.
• 1834: Moritz von Jacobi, a German-born Russian, invents the first practical electric motor.
• 1835: Joseph Henry invents the electromechanical relay.
• 1837: Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
• 1838: Moritz von Jacobi invents Electrotyping.
• 1839: William Otis invents the steam shovel.
• 1839: James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer.
• 1839: Edmond Becquerel invents a method for the photovoltaic effect, effectively producing the first solar cell.

1840s [edit]

• 1841: Alexander Bain devises a printing telegraph.^[350]
• 1842: William Robert Grove invents the first fuel cell.
• 1842: John Bennet Lawes invents superphosphate, the first man-made fertilizer.
• 1844: Friedrich Gottlob Keller and, independently, Charles Fenerty come up with the wood pulp method of paper production.
• 1845: Isaac Charles Johnson invents Modern Portland cement.
• 1846: Henri-Joseph Maus invents the Tunnel boring machine.
• 1847: Ascanio Sobrero invents Nitroglycerin, the first explosive made that was stronger than black powder.
• 1848: Jonathan J. Couch invents the pneumatic drill.
• 1849: Walter Hunt invents the first repeating rifle to use metallic cartridges (of his own design) and a spring-fed magazine.
• 1849: James B. Francis invents the Francis turbine.

1850s [edit]

• 1850: Sir William Armstrong invents the hydraulic accumulator.
• 1852: Robert Bunsen is the first to use a chemical vapor deposition technique.
• 1852: Elisha Otis invents the safety brake elevator.^[351]
• 1852: Henri Giffard becomes the first person to make a manned, controlled and powered flight using a dirigible.
• 1853: François Coignet invents reinforced concrete.
• 1855: James Clerk Maxwell invents the first practical method for color photography, whether chemical or electronic.
• 1855: Sir. Henry Bessemer patents the Bessemer process for making steel, with improvements made by others over the following years.
• 1856: James Harrison produces the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator using the principle of vapour compression in Geelong, Australia.^[352]
• 1856: William Henry Perkin invents Mauveine, the first synthetic dye.
• 1857: Heinrich Geissler invents the Geissler tube.
• 1859: Gaston Planté invents the lead acid battery, the first rechargeable battery.

1860s [edit]

• 1860: Joseph Swan produces carbon fibers.^[353]
• 1862: Alexander Parkes invents parkesine, also known as celluloid, the first man-made plastic.
• 1864: Louis Pasteur invents the pasteurization process.
• 1865: Carl Wilhelm Siemens and Pierre-Émile Martin invented the Siemens-Martin process for making steel.
• 1867: Alfred Nobel invents Dynamite, the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder.
• 1867: Lucien B. Smith invents barbed wire, which Joseph F. Glidden will modify in 1874, leading to the taming of the West and the end of the cowboys.

1870s [edit]

• 1872: J.E.T. Woods and J. Clark invented Stainless steel. Harry Brearley was the first to commercialize it.^[354]
• 1873: Frederick Ransome invents the rotary kiln.
• 1873: Sir William Crookes, a chemist, invents the Crookes radiometer as the by-product of some chemical research.
• 1873: Zénobe Gramme invents the first commercial electrical generator, the Gramme machine.
• 1874: Gustave Trouvé invents the first metal detector.
• 1875: Fyodor Pirotsky invents the first electric tram near Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the Four-stroke cycle.
• 1876: Alexander Graham Bell has a patent granted for the telephone. However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers.^[355]
• 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph.^[356]
• 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather.^[357]
• 1878: Lester Allan Pelton invents the Pelton wheel.
• 1879: Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison both patent a functional Incandescent light bulb. Some two dozen inventors had experimented with electric incandescent lighting over the first three-quarters of the 19th century but never came up with a practical design.^[358] Swan's, which he had been working on since the 1860s, had a low resistance so was only suited for small installations. Edison designed a high-resistance bulb as part of a large-scale commercial electric lighting utility.^{[359] [360] [361]}

1880s [edit]

• 1881: Nikolay Benardos presents carbon arc welding, the first practical arc welding method.^[362]
• 1884: Hiram Maxim invents the recoil-operated Maxim gun, ushering in the age of semi- and fully automatic firearms.
• 1884: Paul Vieille invents Poudre B, the first smokeless powder for firearms.
• 1884: Sir Charles Parsons invents the modern steam turbine.
• 1884: Hungarian engineers Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri invent the closed core high efficiency transformer and the AC parallel power distribution.
• 1885: John Kemp Starley invents the modern safety bicycle.^{[363] [364]}
• 1886: Carl Gassner invents the zinc–carbon battery, the first dry cell battery, making portable electronics practical.
• 1886: Charles Martin Hall and independently Paul Héroult invent the Hall–Héroult process for economically producing aluminum in 1886.
• 1886: Karl Benz invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car).^[365]
• 1887: Carl Josef Bayer invents the Bayer process for the production of alumina.
• 1887: James Blyth invents the first wind turbine used for generating electricity.
• 1887: John Stewart MacArthur, working in collaboration with brothers Dr. Robert and Dr. William Forrest develops the process of gold cyanidation.
• 1888: John J. Loud invents the ballpoint pen.^[366]
• 1888: Heinrich Hertz publishes a conclusive proof of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in experiments that also demonstrate the existence of radio waves. The effects of electromagnetic waves had been observed by many people before this but no usable theory explaining them existed until Maxwell.

1890s [edit]

• 1890s: Frédéric Swarts invents the first chlorofluorocarbons to be applied as refrigerant.^[367]
• 1890: Clément Ader invents the first aircraft, airplane, fly machine called Eole (aircraft) or Ader Éole
• 1891: Whitcomb Judson invents the zipper.
• 1892: Léon Bouly invents the cinematograph.
• 1893: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine (although Herbert Akroyd Stuart had experimented with compression ignition before Diesel).
• 1895: Guglielmo Marconi invents a system of wireless communication using radio waves.
• 1895: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen invented the first radiograph (xrays).
• 1898: Hans von Pechmann synthesizes polyethylene, now the most common plastic in the world.^[368]
• 1899: Waldemar Jungner invents the rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd) as well as the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe) and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd)

20th century [edit]

1900s [edit]

• 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober.
• 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. Kenney.^[369]
• 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling.
• 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
• 1903: First manually controlled, fixed wing, motorized aircraft flies at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. See Claims to the first powered flight.
• 1904: The Fleming valve, the first vacuum tube and diode, is invented by John Ambrose Fleming.
• 1907: The first free flight of a rotary-wing aircraft is carried out by Paul Cornu.
• 1907: Leo Baekeland invents bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components.
• 1907 (at some time during the year),^[370] the tuyères thermopropulsives^[371] after 1945 (Maurice Roy (fr)) known as the statoreacteur ^{[371] [372]} a combustion subsonique (the ramjet)^[373] – R. Lorin^{[374] [375]}
• 1908: Cellophane is invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
• 1909: Fritz Haber invents the Haber process.
• 1909: The first instantaneous transmission of images, or television broadcast, is carried out by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier.

1910s [edit]

BERy articulated streetcar no. 2 in 1913. The Boston Elevated Railway was the world's first street railway system to use articulated streetcars.

• 1911: The cloud chamber, the first particle detector, is invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
• 1912: The first commercial slot cars or more accurately model electric racing cars operating under constant power were made by Lionel (USA) and appeared in their catalogues in 1912. They drew power from a toy train rail sunk in a trough that was connected to a battery.
• 1912: Boston Elevated Railway first use of articulated trams.
• 1913: The Bergius process is developed by Friedrich Bergius.
• 1913: The Kaplan turbine is invented by Viktor Kaplan.
• 1915: The first operational military tanks are designed, in Great Britain and France. They are used in battle from 1916 and 1917 respectively. In Britain the designers are Walter Wilson and William Tritton; in France, Eugène Brillié. (Although it is known that vehicles incorporating at least some of the features of the tank were designed in a number of countries from 1903 onwards, none reached a practical form.)
• 1916: The Czochralski process, widely used for the production of single crystal silicon, is invented by Jan Czochralski.
• 1917: The crystal oscillator is invented by Alexander M. Nicholson using a crystal of Rochelle Salt although his priority was disputed by Walter Guyton Cady

1920s [edit]

• 1925: The Fischer–Tropsch process is developed by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Kohlenforschung.
• 1926: 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: Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid fueled rocket.
• 1927: The quartz clock is invented by Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton at Bell Telephone Laboratories.^[376]
• 1928: 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: Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbo-jet engine. In October 1929, he developed his ideas further.^[377] On 16 January 1930 in England, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932).^{[378] [379]}
• 1928: Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first practical electronic television to the press.
• 1929: The ball screw is invented by Rudolph G. Boehm.

1930s [edit]

• 1930: The Supersonic combusting ramjet — Frank Whittle^[380]
• 1930: The Phase-contrast microscopy is invented by Frits Zernike.
• 1931: The electron microscope is invented by Ernst Ruska.
• 1933: FM radio is patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
• 1935: Nylon, the first fully synthetic fiber is produced by Wallace Carothers while working at DuPont.^[381]
• 1938: Z1 built by Konrad Zuse is the first freely programmable computer in the world.
• 1938, December: 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.
• 1939: G. S. Yunyev or Naum Gurvich invented the electric current defibrillator

1940s [edit]

• 1940, February,^[382] Pu-239 isotope (isotope of plutonium)^[383] a form of matter existing with the capacity for use as a destructive element^[384] (because the isotope has an exponentially increasing^[383] spontaneous^[385] fissile decay^[386]) within nuclear devices — Glenn Seaborg^[382]
• 1941: Polyester is invented by British scientists John Whinfield and James Dickson.^[387]
• 1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range ballistic missile, developed in Nazi Germany engineer Wernher von Braun during World War II.
• July 1945: The atomic bomb is first successfully developed by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada as a part of the Manhattan Project and swiftly deployed in August 1945 in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively terminating World War II.
• 1946: Sir James Martin invents the ejector seat, inspired by the death of his friend and test pilot Captain Valentine Baker in an aeroplane crash in 1942.
• 1947: Holography is invented by Dennis Gabor.
• 1947: Floyd Farris and J.B. Clark (Stanolind Oil and Gas Corporation) invents hydraulic fracturing technology.^[388]
• December 1947: The first transistor, a bipolar point-contact transistor, is invented by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockley at Bell Labs.
• 1948: The first atomic clock is developed at the United States's National Bureau of Standards.
• 1948: Basic oxygen steelmaking is developed by Robert Durrer. The vast majority of steel manufactured in the world is produced using the basic oxygen furnace; in 2000, it accounted for 60% of global steel output.^[389]

1950s [edit]

• 1950: Bertie the Brain, debatably the first video game, is displayed to the public at the Canadian National Exhibition.
• 1950: The Toroidal chamber with axial magnetic fields (the Tokamak) is developed by Igor E. Tamm and Andrei D. Sakharov^[390]
• 1952: The float glass process is developed by Alastair Pilkington.^[391]
• December 20, 1951: First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco, Idaho^{[392] [393]}
• 1952: The first thermonuclear weapon is developed by the United States of America.
• 1953: The first video tape recorder, a helical scan recorder, is invented by Norikazu Sawazaki.
• 1954: 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.
• 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell.
• 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean.
• 1956: The hard disk drive is invented by IBM.^[394]
• 1957: The first personal computer used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610, is invented in 1957 by IBM.
• 1957: The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, is built and launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1958–59: The integrated circuit is independently invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
• 1959: The MOSFET (MOS transistor) is invented by the Egyptian Mohamed Atalla and the Korean Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs. It is used in almost all modern electronic products. It was smaller, faster, more reliable and cheaper to manufacture than earlier bipolar transistors, leading to a revolution in computers, controls and communication.^{[395] [396] [397]}

1960s [edit]

The original 0 series Shinkansen train. Introduced in 1964, it reached a speed of 210 km/h (130 mph).

• 1960: The first functioning laser is invented by Theodore Maiman.
• 1961: The first crewed spaceflight is achieved by Vostok 1.
• 1963: The first electronic cigarette is created by Herbert A. Gilbert. Hon Lik is often credited with its invention as he developed the modern electronic cigarette and was the first to commercialize it.
• 1964: Shinkansen, the first high-speed rail commercial passenger service.
• 1965: Kevlar is invented by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont.
• 1969: ARPANET first deployed via UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and The University of Utah.

1970s [edit]

• 1970: The pocket calculator is invented in Japan.
• 1971: Email is invented by Ray Tomlinson.^[398]
• 1971: The first single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004, is invented. Its development was led by Federico Faggin, using his silicon-gate MOS technology. This led to the personal computer (PC) revolution.^[399]
• 1971: The first space station, Salyut 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1972: The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey.^[400]
• 1973: 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: The first capacitive touchscreen is developed at CERN.
• 1973–74: The Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) is proposed by Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ARPANET, creating the basis for the modern Internet.
• 1975: Altair 8800 is the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution.
• 1977: The first self-driving car that did not rely upon rails or wires under the road is designed by the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan.^[401]
• 1978: The Global Positioning System (GPS) enters service. While not the first Satellite navigation system, it is the first to enter widespread civilian use.
• 1979: The first handheld game console with interchangeable game cartridges, the Microvision is released.

1980s [edit]

• 1980: Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) is invented in Japan by Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba. It is formally introduced to the public in 1984.
• 1981: The first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle undergoes test flights ahead of full operation in 1982.
• 1982: 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.^[402]
• 1982: The first laptop computer is launched, the 8/16-bit Epson HX-20.^[403]
• 1983: Stereolithography is invented by Chuck Hull^[404]
• 1984: The first commercially available cell phone, the DynaTAC 8000X, is created by Motorola.
• 1985: The lithium-ion battery is invented by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles.^[405]

1990s [edit]

• 1990: The World Wide Web was first introduced to the public by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.^{[406] [407]}
• 1991: The first commercial flash-based solid-state drive is launched by SunDisk.^[408]
• 1993: Mosaic, the first popular web browser is introduced
• 1994: IBM Simon, World's first smart phone developed by IBM.
• 1994: First generation of Bluetooth is developed by Ericsson Mobile. A form of data communication on short distances between electronic devices.
• 1995: 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.
• 1998: The first portable MP3 player is released by SaeHan Information Systems.

21st century [edit]

2000s [edit]

• 2000: Sony develops the first prototypes for the Blu-ray optical disc format. The first prototype player was released in 2004.
• 2007: Apple releases the original iPhone. While not the first smartphone, it did popularise the touchscreen focused format.^{[409] [410] [411]}
• 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto develops the first blockchain.^[412]

2010s [edit]

• 2010: The first solar sail based spacecraft, IKAROS, is launched by Japan.
• 2010: The first synthetic organism, Mycoplasma laboratorium is created by the J. Craig Venter Institute.
• 2010: ASML releases the first prototype of an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine
• 2019: IBM launches IBM Q System One, its first integrated quantum computing system for commercial use.

2020s [edit]

• 2020: The first RNA vaccine to be approved by the FDA is co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for COVID-19.

See also [edit]

• Accelerating change
• List of emerging technologies
• List of inventors
• List of years in science
• Outline of prehistoric technology
• Timeline of human prehistory

By type

• History of communication
• Timeline of agriculture and food technology
• Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering
• Timeline of transportation technology
• Timeline of heat engine technology
• Timeline of rocket and missile technology
• Timeline of motor and engine technology
• Timeline of steam power
• Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology
• Timeline of mathematics
• Timeline of computing

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b}
   • (Gay 2016): "SKUNK WORKS: DISCOVERY AT THE EDGES .. Numerous accounts of American corporate breakthroughs...came out of similar skunk work groups.." in, Volney Gay (2016) — Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science, p.22, published by Columbia University Press December 1, 2009 ISBN 0231519818, ISBN 9780231519816,
   • source accessed using "discoveries by skunkworks" (p.3 of google > 2nd entry of p.1 of google books), route from Shane Greenstein (May 20, 2016) — What does a Skunk Works do?, digitopoly.org; "When an established firm... opening a skunk works... The phrase came from Al Capp's Lil' Abner cartoon" accessed 2020-1-18
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• U.S. National Academy of Engineering's Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century Timeline

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