| 2400 BC | The abacus, the first known calculator, was invented in Babylonia
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| 500 BC | Panini Introduced the forerunner to modern formal language theory |
| 300 BC | Pingala invented the binary number system |
| 87 BC | Antikythera Mechanism was built in Rhodes to track movement of the stars |
| 673A | Greek fire was invented by Kallinikos of Heliopolis |
| 724 | Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock |
| 800s | Gunpowder in China |
| 852 | Parachute was invented by Armen Firman |
| 900 | Horse collar in Europe |
| 1041 | Movable type printing press was invented by Bi Sheng |
| 1280 | Eyeglasses |
| 1350 | Suspension bridges in Peru |
| 1450 | Alphabetic, movable type printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg |
| 1492 | Nürnberg Terrestrial Globe by German mapmaker Martin Behaim |
| 1500 | Ball bearing was 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 was invented by Peter Henlein |
| 1540 | Ether was invented by Valerius Cordus |
| 1576 | Ironclad warship was invented by Oda Nobunaga |
| 1581 | Pendulum was invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1593 | Thermometer was invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1608 | Telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey |
| 1609 | Microscope was invented by Galileo Galilei |
| 1620 | Slide rule was invented by William Oughtred |
| 1642 | Adding machine was invented by Blaise Pascal |
| 1643 | Barometer was invented by Evangelista Torricelli |
| 1645 | Vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke |
| 1657 | Pendulum clock was invented by Christiaan Huygens |
| 1679 | Pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin |
| 1698 | Steam engine was invented by Thomas Savery |
| 1700 | Piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori |
| 1671 | Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus |
| 1705 | Steam piston engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen |
| 1710 | Thermometer was invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur |
| 1742 | Franklin stove was invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| 1752 | Lightning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| 1767 | Spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves |
| 1769 | Steam engine was invented by James Watt |
| 1783 | Parachute was invented by Jean Pierre Blanchard |
| 1783 | Hot air balloon was invented by Montgolfier brothers |
| 1791 | Steamboat was invented by John Fitch |
| 1798 | Vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner |
| 1804 | Locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick |
| 1814 | Steam Locomotive (Blucher) was invented by George Stephenson |
| 1816 | Miner's safety lamp was invented by Humphry Davy |
| 1816 | Stethoscope was invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec |
| 1820 | The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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| 1822 | Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer |
| 1821 | Electric motor was invented by Michael Faraday |
| 1826 | Photography was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce |
| 1830 | Lawn mower was invented by Edwin Beard Budding |
| 1834 | Braille was invented by Louis Braille |
| 1834 | Refrigerator was invented by Jacob Perkins |
| 1834 | Combine harvester was invented by Hiram Moore |
| 1835 | Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse Revolver was invented by Samuel Colt
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| 1838 | Electric telegraph was invented by Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse) |
| 1839 | Vulcanization of rubber was invented by Charles Goodyear |
| 1842 | Anaesthesia was invented by Crawford Long |
| 1843 | Typewriter was invented by Charles Thurber |
| 1846 | Sewing machine was invented by Elias Howe |
| 1846 | Rotary printing press was invented by Richard M. Hoe |
| 1849 | Safety pin was invented by Walter Hunt |
| 1862 | Revolving machine gun was invented by Richard J. Gatling |
| 1862 | Mechanical submarine was invented by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol |
| 1866 | Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel |
| 1870 | Stock ticker was invented by Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1876 | Gasoline carburettor was invented by Daimler |
| 1877 | Phonograph was invented by Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1877 | Microphone was invented by Emile Berliner |
| 1878 | Cathode ray tube was invented by William Crookes |
| 1880 | Photophone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1885 | Motor cycle was invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach |
| 1891 | Zipper was invented by Whitcomb L. Judson |
| 1893 | Wireless communication was invented by Nikola Tesla |
| 1895 | Diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
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| 1898 | Remote control was invented by Nikola Tesla |
| 1901 | Vacuum cleaner was invented by Hubert Booth |
| 1903 | Powered airplane was invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright |
| 1907 | Color photography was invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
Radio amplifier was invented by Lee DeForest
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| 1909 | Bakelite was invented by Leo Baekeland |
| 1923 | Sound film was invented by Lee DeForest
Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth
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| 1924 | Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird |
| 1928 | Antibiotics were invented by Alexander Fleming |
| 1931 | Iconoscope was invented by Vladimir Zworykin |
| 1937 | Jet engine was 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 was invented by Laszlo Biro |
| 1943 | Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus Aqua-Lung was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
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| 1946 | Microwave oven was invented by Percy Spencer |
| 1951 | Nuclear power reactor was invented by Walter Zinn |
| 1956 | Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss Videocassette recorder was invented by Ampex
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| 1957 | Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians |
| 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 was invented by Theodore Harold Maiman |
| 1961 | Optical disc was invented by David Paul Gregg |
| 1963 | Computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart |
| 1967 | Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was invented by John Shepherd-Barron Hypertext was invented by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
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| 1968 | Video game console was invented by Ralph H. Baer |
| 1969 | ARPANET was invented by United States Department of Defense |
| 1971 | E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson Liquid Crystal Display was invented by James Fergason Pocket calculator was invented by Sharp Corporation Floppy Disk was invented by David Noble with IBM
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| 1973 | Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs Personal computer was invented by Xerox PARC
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| 1983 | Camcorder was invented by Sony |
| 1990 | World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee |
| 2001 | Digital satellite radio |
