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Timeline of invention

This is a list of inventions, listed in chronological order.

Contents
1 Significant inventions not assigned

1.1 pre homo sapiens technology:
1.2 with homo sapiens:

2 Significant inventions, arranged in chronological order

2.1 8th millennium BC
2.2 7th millennium BC
2.3 4th millennium BC

2.3.1 33rd century BC
2.3.2 31st century BC

2.4 3rd millennium BC

2.4.1 27th century BC
2.4.2 23rd century BC
2.4.3 22nd century BC
2.4.4 21st century BC

2.5 2nd millennium BC

2.5.1 19th century BC
2.5.2 18th century BC
2.5.3 16th century BCE
2.5.4 15th century BC

2.6 1st millennium BC

2.6.1 7th century BC
2.6.2 6th century BC
2.6.3 5th century BC
2.6.4 4th century BC
2.6.5 3rd century BC
2.6.6 2nd century BC
2.6.7 1st century BC

2.7 1st millennium

2.7.1 1st century
2.7.2 2nd century
2.7.3 3rd century
2.7.4 4th century
2.7.5 5th century
2.7.6 6th century
2.7.7 7th century
2.7.8 8th century
2.7.9 9th century
2.7.10 10th century

2.8 2nd millennium

2.8.1 11th century
2.8.2 12th century
2.8.3 13th century
2.8.4 14th century
2.8.5 15th century
2.8.6 16th century
2.8.7 17th century
2.8.8 18th century
2.8.9 19th century

2.8.9.1 1800s
2.8.9.2 1810s
2.8.9.3 1820s
2.8.9.4 1830s
2.8.9.5 1840s
2.8.9.6 1850s
2.8.9.7 1860s
2.8.9.8 1870s
2.8.9.9 1880s
2.8.9.10 1890s

2.8.10 20th century

2.8.10.1 1900s
2.8.10.2 1910s
2.8.10.3 1920s
2.8.10.4 1930s
2.8.10.5 1940s
2.8.10.6 1950s
2.8.10.7 1960s
2.8.10.8 1970s
2.8.10.9 1980s
2.8.10.10 1990s

2.9 3rd millennium

2.9.1 21st century

3 See also

3.1 Other technology timelines

Significant inventions not assigned

pre homo sapiens technology:

  • spoken languages; meaning the actual set of words and grammatical structure rather than the evolution of the biological ability for language.
  • burial rituals
  • fire?
  • first stone tools.

with homo sapiens:

  • use of pigments (cave paintings/ seremonial body paint/ painting of clothes and artifacts).
  • the arch - used extensively by Rome but existing earlier
  • the canoe and the boat
  • cultivation of lactic acid bacteria, used on milk, vegetables and skin
  • other types of bacteria, for example used for tanning and producing vinegar
  • the pulley
  • the screw
  • soap
  • the stirrup
  • the use of yeast for making wine, beer and bread

Significant inventions, arranged in chronological order

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often 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 practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded, version of the invention should be used here.

8th millennium BC

7th millennium BC

4th millennium BC

33rd century BC

31st century BC

3rd millennium BC

27th century BC

23rd century BC

22nd century BC

21st century BC

  • Cretan writing

2nd millennium BC

19th century BC

18th century BC

16th century BCE

15th century BC

1st millennium BC


7th century BC

6th century BC

5th century BC

4th century BC

  • 350s BC: rotation of Earth : Hereclides

3rd century BC

2nd century BC

1st century BC

1st millennium

1st century

2nd century

3rd century

The Nydam Boats . Without sails but with ship-hulls similar to that of the later age viking-ships.

4th century

5th century

6th century

7th century

8th century

9th century

10th century

  • Gunpowder (in China: some ref says 8th century?)

2nd millennium

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s

20th century

1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s

3rd millennium

21st century

  • put significant 21st century inventions here

See also

Other technology timelines



Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45