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Media and Technology Timeline
Touch Screen (iPhone)
Cell Phone
Digital Camera
Laptop
Personal Computer (desktop)
Computer
Typewriter
Color Film
Movie projector
Film Camera

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Printing Press
Ink Block printing
Written Language
2400 BC The abacus, the first known calculator, invented in Babylonia
300 BC Pingala invents the binary number system
87 BC Antikythera Mechanism invented in Rhodes to track movement of the stars
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1041
Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock
Movable type printing press invented by Bi Sheng
1280
1350
Eyeglasses were invented
Suspension bridges built in Peru
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Alphabetic, movable type printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg
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
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein
Ironclad warship invented by Oda Nobunaga
Pendulum invented by Galileo Galilei

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Thermometer invented by Galileo Galilei
Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey
Microscope invented by Galileo Galilei
Adding machine invented by Blaise Pascal
Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli
Vacuum pump invented by Otto von Guericke
Pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens
Pressure cooker invented by Denis Papin
Newton, Principia: Newton's physics formed the foundation of modern science
Steam engine invented by Thomas Savery
Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus
Steam piston engine invented by Thomas Newcomen
Jethro Tull invents mechanical (seed) sower
Thermometer invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
John Kay invents flying shuttle.
Franklin stove invented by Benjamin Franklin
Lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin
Spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves

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Steam engine invented by James Watt
Priestly isolates oxygen
First steam powered mills automate the weaving process.
William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
Hot air balloon invented by Montgolfier brothers
Steamboat invented by John Fitch
Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin
Vaccination invented by Edward Jenner
Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
Oliver Evans invents the conveyer belt
Locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick
Steam Locomotive (Blucher) invented by George Stephenson
Miner's safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy
Stethoscope invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
Faraday demonstrates the principle of the electric motor.
Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
Electric motor invented by Michael Faraday

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Photography invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding
Von Liebig discovers chloroform
Faraday discovers electro-magnetic current, making possible generators and electric engines.
Braille invented by Louis Braille
Refrigerator invented by Jacob Perkins
Combine harvester invented by Hiram Moore
Morse code invented by Samuel Morse
Revolver invented by Samuel Colt
Electric telegraph invented by Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype.
Vulcanization of rubber invented by Charles Goodyear
Anaesthesia invented by Crawford Long
Typewriter invented by Charles Thurber
Sewing machine invented by Elias Howe
Rotary printing press invented by Richard M. Hoe
Pneumatic tire patented
Elias Howe invents the sewing machine

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1859
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Safety pin invented by Walter Hunt
Monier develops reinforced concrete
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling
Isaac Singer commercializes the sewing machine
Mechanical submarine invented by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel
Lister demonstrates the use of carbolic antiseptic
Mendeleev produces the Periodic Table
Stock ticker invented by Thomas Alva Edison
Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter
James Clerk Maxwell states the laws of electro-magnetic radiation
Gasoline carburettor invented by Daimler
Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison
Microphone invented by Emile Berliner
Cathode ray tube invented by William Crookes
Edison invents the incandescent lamp.

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1883
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1891
1893
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1900
1901
Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
First skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories)
Maxim invents the machine gun
Motor cycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
Benz develops first automobile to run on internal- combustion engine
Hertz produces radio waves.
Eiffel Tower is bult
Zipper invented by Whitcomb L. Judson
Rudolf Diesel invents diesel
Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla
Diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel
Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
Auguste and Louis Lumiere develop Cinematograph
Roentgen discovers X-rays
Remote control invented by Nikola Tesla
Planck develops quantum theory
First Zeppelin is built
Vacuum cleaner invented by Hubert Booth

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1938
Powered airplane invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
Einstein writes the Theory of Relativity.
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Helicopter invented by Paul Cornu
Radio amplifier invented by Lee DeForest
Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.
Bakelite invented by Leo Baekeland
London to Paris air service begins
James Smathers develops the first electric typewriter
Sound film invented by Lee DeForest
Television Electronic invented by Philo Farnsworth
Electro Mechanical television system invented by John Logie Baird
Robert Goddard experiments with liquid-fueled rockets.
Antibiotics, penicillin invented by Alexander Fleming
Iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin
Jet engine invented by Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
Ballpoint pen invented by Laszlo Biro

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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
The atomic bomb
Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer
Nuclear power reactor invented by Walter Zinn
Optical fiber invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
Videocassette recorder invented by Ampex
Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
Laser invented by Theodore Harold Maiman
Uri Gagarin is the first man in space
Optical disc invented by David Paul Gregg
Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart
Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) invented by John Shepherd-Barron
Hypertext invented by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
Video game console invented by Ralph H. Baer
The moon landing - Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon

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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
Ethernet invented by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs
Personal computer invented by Xerox PARC
Camcorder invented by Sony
World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
Digital satellite radio