"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." (Dan 12:4)

4000 BC
Canal in Mesopotamia

3500 BC
Plywood in Egypt

3500 BC
Writing in Sumer

3500 BC
Carts in Sumer

3000 BC
Drainage in the Indus Valley (India/Pakistan)

3000 BC
Bronze (Susa)

3000 BC
Silk in China

3000 BC
Cement in Egypt

2800 BC
Soap in Mesopotamia

2800 BC
Button in the Indus Valley

2600 BC
Artificial sewage systems in the Indus Valley

2000 BC
Currency

2000 BC
Candles in Egypt

600s BC
Coins in Lydia

500s BC
Sugar in India

500s BC
Dental bridge in Etruria

500s BC
Trebuchet in China

400s BC
Plastic surgery
Sushruta

300s BC
Compass in China

300s BC
Screw
Archytas

200s BC
Crossbow in China

200s BC
Compound pulley
Archimedes

200s BC
Odometer
Archimedes?

150s BC
Clockwork (the Antikythera mechanism)

150s BC
Astrolabe (Star-plotting device, Hipparchus)

100s BC
Parchment in Pergamon

50 AD
Mouldboard plough in Gaul

100s
Aeolipile
Egypt by Hero of Alexandria

100s
Stern mounted rudder in China

100s
Paper

200s
Wheelbarrow
Zhuge Liang

200s
Horseshoes in Germany

300s
Wootz steel in India

300s
Stirrup in China

300s
Toothpaste in Egypt

600s
Windmill in Persia

670s
Greek fire

700s
Quill pen

800s
Gunpowder in China

900s
Horse collar in Europe

900s
Solid-fuel rocket in China

1100s
Framed Bead Abacus in China

1041
Movable type printing press
Bi Sheng

1128
Cannon in China

1200s
Eyeglasses in Northern Italy

1200s
Mechanical clocks in Northern Italy

1200s
Sandpaper in China

1350
Suspension bridges in Peru

1441
Rain gauge (Jang Yeong-sil)

1450
Alphabetic, movable type printing press

1451
Concave lens for eyeglasses

1498
Toothbrush in China

1510
Pocket watch

1540
Ether

1581
Pendulum

1582
Gregorian calendar

1589
Stocking frame

1593
Thermometer

1600
Musket in Europe

1600
Pencil in England

1608
Telescope (Hans Lippershey)

1609
Microscope (Galileo Galilei)

1620
Slide rule
William Oughtred

1623
Automatic calculator

1642
Adding machine

1643
Barometer

1645
Vacuum pump

1657
Pendulum clock

1672
Steam car

1679
Pressure cooker

1698
Steam engine

1700
Piano

1701
Seed drill

1709
Iron smelting using coke

1712
Steam piston engine

1710
Thermometer

1711
Tuning fork

1714
Mercury thermometer

1730
Mariner's quadrant

1731
Sextant (John Hadley)

1742
Franklin stove

1752
Lightning rod

1764
Spinning jenny

1767
Carbonated water

1769
Steam engine

1769
Steam car

1776
Steamboat

1777
Circular saw

1783
Parachute

1783
Hot air balloon

1784
Bifocals

1784
Argand lamp

1784
Shrapnel shell (exploding projectile)

1785
Power loom

1785
Automatic flour mill

1786
Threshing machine

1791
Gas turbine

1793
Cotton gin

1793
Optical telegraph (heliograph)

1797
Cast iron plow

1798
Vaccination

1798
Lithography

1799
Seeding machine

1800
Electric battery

1802
Gas stove

1804
Locomotive

1808
Band saw

1809
Arc lamp

1811
Gun Breechloader

1814
Steam Locomotive

1816
Miner's safety lamp

1816
Stethoscope

1817
Kaleidoscope

1819
Breech loading flintlock

1821
Electric motor

1823
Electromagnet

1826
Photography

1826
Internal combustion engine

1827
Insulated wire

1827
Screw propeller

1827
Friction match

1830
Lawn mower

1831
Reaper

1831
Electrical generator

1834
The Hansom cab

1834
Braille system

1834
Refrigerator

1834
Combine harvester

1835
Photogenic Drawing

1835
Revolver (Colt)

1835
Morse code

1835
Incandescent light bulb

1837
First US electric printing

1837
Steel plow

1837
Camera Zoom Lens

1837
Magnetic telegraph

1838
Electric telegraph

1839
Vulcanization of rubber

1840
Artificial fertilizer

1842
Anaesthesia

1843
Typewriter

1843
Ice cream maker

1845
Portland cement (concrete)

1845
Double tube tire

1846
Sewing machine

1846
Rotary printing press

1849
Safety pin

1849
Francis turbine

1852
Airship (non-rigid)

1852
Passenger elevator

1852
Gyroscope

1855
Bunsen burner

1855
Bessemer (steel making) process

1856
First celluloids

1858
Undersea telegraph cable

1858
Shoe sole sewing machine

1858
Mason jar

1859
Oil drill

1859
Rechargable storage battery

1859
Ironclad warship (La Gloire, French warship)

1860
Linoleum

1860
Repeating rifle (Wincheser)

1860
Self-propelled torpedo

1862
Gatling gun (revolving machine gun)

1862
Mechanical submarine

1862
Pasteurization

1863
Player piano

1865
Roller Coaster

1865
Barbed wire
Louis Jannin

1866
Dynamite

1868
First practical typewriter

1868
Air brake (George Westinghouse, railroad)

1868
Oleo (margarine)

1869
Vacuum cleaner

1870
Magic Lantern projector

1870
Stock ticker

1871
Cable car (railway)

1871
Compressed air rock drill

1872
Adding machine

1873
Railway knuckle coupler

1873
Modern direct current electric motor

1874
Electric street car

1875
Dynamo

1876
Carpet sweeper

1876
Loudspeaker

1877
Stapler

1877
Induction motor

1877
Phonograph

1877
Electric welding

1877
Twine Knotter

1877
Microphone

1878
Cathode ray tube

1878
Transparent film

1879
Pelton turbine
Lester Pelton

1879
Automobile engine

1879
Cash register

1879
Automobile (Patent)

1880
Roll film

1880
Safety razor

1880
Seismograph

1881
Metal detector

1882
Electric fan

1882
Electric flat iron

1883
Auto engine - compression ignition

1883
Two-phase (alternating current) induction motor

1884
Linotype machine

1884
Fountain pen

1884
Punched card accounting

1884
Trolley car, (electric)

1885
Automobile - internal combustion engine powered

1885
Automobile, differential gear

1885
Motor cycle

1885
Alternating current transformer

1886
Dishwasher

1887
Monotype machine

1887
Contact lens

1887
Gramophone record

1888
Kodak hand camera

1888
Ballpoint pen

1888
Pneumatic tube tire

1891
Automobile (electric storage) Battery

1891
Zipper

1891
Carborundum (silicon carbide abrasive)

1893
Carburetor

1893
Wireless communication

1893
Radio (Nikola Tesla)

1894
Radio transmission

1895
Diesel engine

1895
Radio signals

1895
Shredded Wheat

1897
Steam turbine

1896
Electric stove

1897
Automobile magneto

1897
Modern escalator

1898
Tapered roller bearing

1898
Remote control

1899
Iron-Mercury coherer with telephone detector

1899
Automobile self starter

1899
Magnetic tape recorder

1900
Rigid dirigible airship

1900
Self-heating can

1901
Improved wireless transmitter

1901
Instant coffee

1901
Mercury vapor lamp

1901
Disposable razor blade

1901
Vacuum cleaner

1902
Radio magnetic detector

1902
Air Conditioner

1902
Neon lamp

1902
Radio telephone

1902
Rayon (synthetic fiber)

1903
Electrocardiograph (EKG)

1903
Powered airplane

1903
Windshield wiper

1904
Tractor

1911
Hydrofoil (boat)

1907
Color photography

1907
Gyroplane (precursor to the helicopter)

1907
Radio amplifier

1907
Vacuum cleaner, (electric)

1907
Washing machine, (electric)

1908
Cellophane

1908
Geiger counter

1908
Gyrocompass

1908
Tea bag (Thomas Sullivan)

1909
Monoplane (Henry W. Walden)

1909
Bakelite (first plastic)

1909
Gun silencer

1911
Air conditioner

1911
Cellophane

1913
Cracking process for Gasoline (oil refining)

1913
Double acting wrench

1913
Radio receiver, cascade tuning

1913
Stainless steel

1913
X-Ray

1914
Radio transmitter

1914
Liquid-fuel rocket

1914
Tank, military

1915
Tungsten filament (incandescent light)

1915
Searchlight arc

1915
Radio tube oscillator

1915
Pyrex (shatter-resistant glass)

1916
Browning Gun (gas-operated machine gun)

1916
Thompson submachine gun

1916
Incandescent gas lamp

1917
Sonar echolocation

1917
Cruise missile

1918
Superheterodyne receiver

1918
Interrupter gear (for airplane machine guns)

1918
Crystal-control radio oscillator

1918
Pop-up toaster

1921
Polygraph (lie detector)

1922
RADAR (Radio Direction And Ranging)

1922
Technicolor

1922
Water skiing

1923
Sound film

1923
Television (all electronic)

1923
Wind tunnel

1924
Frozen food

1926
Aerosol spray

1927
Mechanical cotton picker

1927
PEZ Candy

1928
Sliced bread

1928
Electric dry shaver

1928
Antibiotics

1928
Preselector gearbox

1929
Kinescope (TV picture-tube)

1929
X-Ray motion picture camera

1930
Neoprene (artificial rubber)

1930
Nylon (artificial silk)

1930
Underwater Motion Picture Camera

1931
The Radio telescope

1931
Iconoscope (all-electronic camera tube)

1935
Microwave RADAR

1935
Trampoline

1935
Spectrophotometer (identifies chemicals by their light spectra)

1936
Pin-setter (bowling)

1937
Aircraft gas-turbine (turbo-jet & turbo-prop)

1937
O-ring

1938
Ballpoint pen

1938
Fiberglas

1939
FM radio

1939
Helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)

1939
View-master

1939
Automated teller machine

1942
Bazooka (man-portable antitank rocket)

1942
Undersea oil pipeline

1943
Aqua-Lung (Jacques Cousteau diving re-breather)

1944
Electron spectrometer

1945
Slinky (walking toy-spring)

1945
Nuclear (fision) weapons

1946
Microwave oven

1946
Mobile Telephone Service

1946
Computer (stored-program, electronic)

1947
Transistor

1947
Polaroid camera

1948
Long Playing Record

1948
Holography

1949
Atomic clocks

1951
Liquid Paper

1951
Nuclear power reactor

1952
Optical fiber

1952
Fusion (hydrogen) bomb

1952
Hovercraft

1953
Medical ultrasonography

1954
Transistor radio

1954
Geodesic dome

1955
Velcro

1955
Hair spray

1955
Hard Drive

1956
Digital clock

1956
Videocassette recorder

1957
Bubble Wrap

1958
Integrated circuit

1958
Communications satellite

1959
Snowmobile

1960
LASER

1961
Optical (LASER) disc

1961
Cochlear (ear) implant

1962
Light-emitting diode (LED)

1962
Space observatory

1963
Computer mouse

1967
Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)

1967
Hypertext

1968
Video game console

1969
ARPANET (first wide-area packet switching network)

1971
E-mail

1971
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

1971
Pocket calculator (microprocessor-based)

1971
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

1971
Floppy Disk

1972
Computer tomography (CT Scan)

1973
Ethernet (computer network)

1973
Genetically modified organism

1973
Personal computer

1974
Rubik's Cube

1974
Hybrid vehicle (gas-electric)

1975
Digital camera

1976
Gore-Tex fabric

1977
Personal stereo (Walkman)

1977
Cellular mobile phone

1978
Spreadsheet (Visicalc)

1981
Scanning tunneling microscope

1983
Camcorder

1983
DARPANET (Early Internet, TCP/IP-based network)

1984
Lithotripsy (ultrasonic kidney-stone crusher)

1985
Polymerase chain reaction (DNA/RNA replication chemical)

1985
DNA fingerprinting

1986
Breadmaker (self-contained automatic bread-making machine)

1987
Statin (cholesterol-reducing drug)

1987
Digital Light Processing

1990
World Wide Web (Internet hypertext network)

1993
Global Positioning System (GPS)

1993
Blue LED (much harder to make than other colors)

1997
Non-mechanical Digital Audio Player (MP3 player)

1997
Digital Video Disk (DVD)

1997
Wi-Fi (Wireless-Fidelity Internet connectivity)

1998
Viagra (Anti-impotence drug)

2001
Digital satellite radio

2001
Self-contained Artificial heart

2002
Scramjet