Progress of Technology

Short Timeline about Progress of Technology
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2400 BC
The abacus, the first known calculator, invented in Babylonia


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300 BC
Pingala invents the binary number system

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87 BC
Antikythera Mechanism invented in Rhodes to track movement of the stars

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724
Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock

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1041
Movable type printing press invented by Bi Sheng

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1280
Eyeglasses were invented

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1350
Suspension bridges built in Peru

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1450
Alphabetic, movable type printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg

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1500
Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots


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1510
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein

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1576
Ironclad warship invented by Oda Nobunaga

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1581 Pendulum invented by Galileo Galilei

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1593
Thermometer invented by Galileo Galilei

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1608
Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey

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1609
Microscope invented by Galileo Galilei

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1642
Adding machine invented by Blaise Pascal

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1643
Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli

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1645
Vacuum pump invented by Otto von Guericke

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1657 Pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens

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1679
Pressure cooker invented by Denis Papin

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1687
Newton, Principia: Newton's physics formed the foundation of modern science

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1698
Steam engine invented by Thomas Savery

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1671
Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus

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1705
Steam piston engine invented by Thomas Newcomen

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1708
Jethro Tull invents mechanical (seed) sower

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1710
Thermometer invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

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1733

John Kay invents flying shuttle.

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1742
Franklin stove invented by Benjamin Franklin

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1752
Lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin

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1767
Spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves

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1769 Steam engine invented by James Watt

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1774
Priestly isolates oxygen

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1779
First steam powered mills automate the weaving process.

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1781
William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.

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1783 Hot air balloon invented by Montgolfier brothers

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1791
Steamboat invented by John Fitch

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1793
Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin

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1798
Vaccination invented by Edward Jenner

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1799
Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
Oliver Evans invents the conveyer belt



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1804
Locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick

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1814
Steam Locomotive (Blucher) invented by George Stephenson

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1816
Miner's safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy

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1816
Stethoscope invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec

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1820
The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar


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1821
Faraday demonstrates the principle of the electric motor.


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1822 Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer

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1821
Electric motor invented by Michael Faraday

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1826
Photography invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce

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1830
Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding

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1831
Von Liebig discovers chloroform

Faraday discovers electro-magnetic current, making possible generators and electric engines.



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1834
Braille invented by Louis Braille

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1834
Refrigerator invented by Jacob Perkins

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1834
Combine harvester invented by Hiram Moore

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1835
Morse code invented by Samuel Morse

Revolver invented by Samuel Colt



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1838
Electric telegraph invented by Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)

Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype.



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1839
Vulcanization of rubber invented by Charles Goodyear

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1842
Anaesthesia invented by Crawford Long

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1843
Typewriter invented by Charles Thurber

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1846
Sewing machine invented by Elias Howe

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1846
Rotary printing press invented by Richard M. Hoe
Pneumatic tire patented

Elias Howe invents the sewing machine



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1849
Safety pin invented by Walter Hunt

Monier develops reinforced concrete



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1859
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species

Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine



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1862
Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling

Isaac Singer commercializes the sewing machine



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1862
Mechanical submarine invented by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol

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1866
Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel
Lister demonstrates the use of carbolic antiseptic



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1869
Mendeleev produces the Periodic Table

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1870
Stock ticker invented by Thomas Alva Edison

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1873
Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter
James Clerk Maxwell states the laws of electro-magnetic radiation



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1876
Gasoline carburettor invented by Daimler

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1877
Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison

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1877
Microphone invented by Emile Berliner

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1878
Cathode ray tube invented by William Crookes
Edison invents the incandescent lamp.



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1880
Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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1883
First skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories)
Maxim invents the machine gun



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1885
Motor cycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
Benz develops first automobile to run on internal- combustion engine



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1888
Hertz produces radio waves.


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1888
Eiffel Tower is bult

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1891
Zipper invented by Whitcomb L. Judson
Rudolf Diesel invents diesel



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1893
Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla

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1895
Diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel
Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi

Auguste and Louis Lumiere develop Cinematograph

Roentgen discovers X-rays



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1898
Remote control invented by Nikola Tesla

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1900
Planck develops quantum theory
First Zeppelin is built



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1901
Vacuum cleaner invented by Hubert Booth

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1903
Powered airplane invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

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1905
Einstein writes the Theory of Relativity.

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1907
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere

Helicopter invented by Paul Cornu

Radio amplifier invented by Lee DeForest



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1908
Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.

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1909
Bakelite invented by Leo Baekeland

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1919
London to Paris air service begins
James Smathers develops the first electric typewriter



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1923
Sound film invented by Lee DeForest
Television Electronic invented by Philo Farnsworth



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1924
Electro Mechanical television system invented by John Logie Baird

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1926
Robert Goddard experiments with liquid-fueled rockets.

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1928
Antibiotics, penicillin invented by Alexander Fleming

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1931
Iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin

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1937
Jet engine invented by Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine



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1938
Ballpoint pen invented by Laszlo Biro

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1943
Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine
Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus

Aqua-Lung invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan



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1945
The atomic bomb

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1946
Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer

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1951
Nuclear power reactor invented by Walter Zinn

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1956
Optical fiber invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
Videocassette recorder invented by Ampex



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1957
Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians

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1958
Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce


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1960
Laser invented by Theodore Harold Maiman

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1961
Uri Gagarin is the first man in space

Optical disc invented by David Paul Gregg



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1963 Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart

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1967
Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) invented by John Shepherd-Barron

Hypertext invented by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson



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1968
Video game console invented by Ralph H. Baer

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1969
The moon landing - Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon

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1971
E-mail invented by Ray Tomlinson
Liquid Crystal Display invented by James Fergason

Pocket calculator invented by Sharp Corporation

Floppy Disk invented by David Noble with IBM



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1973
Ethernet invented by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs

Personal computer invented by Xerox PARC



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1983
Camcorder invented by Sony

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1990
World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee

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2001
Digital satellite radio


Source:
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/12-technology-timeline.htm