Here's a Timeline of Innovations and Achievements to Help You Decide
- 1994 Desktop Computers
- 1950 Television becomes popular
- 1927 First commercial airline
- 1920 Ideas of black holes, space-time, and nuclear energy proposed
- 1908 Automobile becomes popular
- 1901 Radio begins to replace telegraph as long-distance communication of choice
- 1883 Sterile techiques developed
- 1881 Vaccines become popular
- 1868 Transcontinental railroad
- 1858 Transatlantic ocean floor telegraph cable enters operation
- 1824 Telegraph enters common use for long-distance communication
- 1804 First steam railroad in Europe
- 1787 First commercial steam boat services
- 1763 Bayes Theorem (statistics) published
- 1751 First battery
- 1745 First capacitor
- 1670 First lecture by Newton on optics
- 1621 Asphalt used for granaries and sewage systems
- 1500 Printing press enters common use
- 1300 Dry magnetic compasses enter common use in Europe
- 1280 Building-size clocks enter common use
- 1086 Fulling mills (automatic manufacturing of wool using wind/waterwheel power)
- 586 Ship mills (boats doing milling - Constantinople)
- 500 Hospitals (Constantinople)
- 490 Theory of Impetus (similar to Laws of Motion)
- 100 BC to 205 BC Antithykera Mechanism (computers)
- 280 BC Automatic Servant of Philon (robotics; Byzantium)
- 800 BC Alphabet introduced to the Greeks
- 2,000 BC Oldest pottery (Brazil)
- 4,000 BC Oldest dyed cloth (Peru)
- 5,000 BC Copper mining (North America)
- 7,000 to 9,000 BC Gobekli Tepe (carved stone, farming)
- 40,000 BC Earliest cave paintings (bull)
- 500,000 BC hundreds of flint axes found (Boxgrove)
- 700,000 BC flint tools found (Pakefield)
- 1.2 Million BC 50 handprints found (Happisburgh, England)