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Technology history timeline

600 BC static electricity Thales of Miletus discovers static electricity.

1-2 million ago Humans discover fire.

3500 BC Wheel The invention of it credited to the Elamites because there sculptures sre the earliest to portray it.

500BC-900C Hot Air Baloon Nazca people of Peru are belived to have a experimented with baloon flight.

10 millon years ago Humans make the firts tool from stone, wood, antler and bones.

Technology history timeline

1206 ancestor of modern toilet arabic engineer al-Jazari invent a flushing hand-wasjing machine

200 BC magnetic compass chinese invent early magnet direction finders

600 Winfmill windmills wher invented in the Midle East

1450 Printer Johaness Goutenberg pioneers the modern printing press

1590 microscope a Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Jenssen made the first cmpound microscope

2500 BC Lighthouse Ancient Egyptians invent them, like the light house of Alejandria

Technology history timeline

1609 telescope Galileo Galilei built a practical telescope and made new astronomical descoveries.

1769 speech synthesizer it is the artificial production of human speech

1827 photograph first modern photograph taken by Joshep Niepce.

1650 pendulum clock Christiaan Huygems develops it using Galileo's earlier discover that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time

1600 Thermometer the individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respecrive density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes

1450 Printer first battery

Technology history timeline

1898 Radio control At an exhibition at Madison Square Garden, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a small unmanned boat that used a coherer based radio control

1868 Typewriter First modern typewriter with QWERTY keyboard

1908 Ford Motel T The world's first truly affordable car

1876 Telephone Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today.

1903 Airplane Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft

1840 fax machine Scotsman Alexander Bain invented a primitive fax machine based on chemical technology

Technology history timeline

1963 LED LED lamps have a lifespan many times longer than equivalent incandescent lamps, and are significantly more efficient than most fluorescent lamps.

1928 Electric refrigerator The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top"

1942 Nuclear Reactor Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the Universitiy of Chicago

1959 DAC-1 IBM and General Motors Developed Desing Augmented by Computers-1 (Dac-1), the first computer-aided desing (CAD) system

1920 Television Philo Farnsworth Transmitted the first live human images using his television system, including a three a half-inch image of his wife Pem.

1939 Helicopter Rotorcraf in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally-spinning rotors.

Technology history timeline

1976 Apple 1 One of the world's first personal home computers

1989 Worls Wide Web Information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators

2001 Vacuum Cleamimg Robot Irobot corporation releases the first version of its Roomba vacuum cleaning robot

2001 Ipod Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPOD MP3 music player

1983 CD A new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations

1973 Mobile phone The first handheld cellphone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Technology history timeline

2015 Supercomputers The world's fastest computers are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.

2020 Quantum computer Google claims to have achieved "quantum supremacy"-with a quantum computer that calculates faster than a conventional one

2010 3D TV Most modern 3D television sets use and active shutter 3D system or a polarized 3D system, and some are aoutoesteoreotipic without the need of classes.

2016 Miniature Machines Three nanotcnologists win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules

2007 iPhone Apple introduced a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone

2013 Hyperloop A giant, pneumatic tube transport system