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Inventions 

• 300 BC - Abacus

• 1300 - Spinning yarn wheel

• 1400 - Mechanical clocks

• 1483 - Leonardo’s invention - Armored Vehicle, Parachute, Ornithopter, Glider, Helicopter, Aeroplane

• 1577 - Jost Burgi invented the minute hand. Burgi's invention was part of a clock made for Tycho Brahe

• 1600 - Robert Hooke invents microscope 

• 1600 - Galileo Galilei and telescopes 

• 1614, 1616 - Logarithms - John Napier

• 1623 - Blaise Pascal - wore wrist watch

• 1642 - Mechanical calculator - Blaise Pascal

• 1656 - Pendulum clocks

• 1700 - Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles 

• 1778 - Flush toilet - Joseph Bramah 

• 1783-1815 - Macadamized roads - John McAdams

• 1796 - Arkwright spinning machine

• 1800 - Making steel

• 1801-1083 - Railway Locomotive - Steam Road Carriage

• 1830 - Thermostat - Andrew Ure

• 1831 - Magnetic Field produces electricity - Electric motor, transformer, and generator - Michael Faraday 

• 1832 - Rainhill Bridge spanned Liverpool and Manchester 

• 1834 - Refrigerator - Jacob Perkins

• 1843 - Fax Machine - Alexander Bain, Giovanni Caselli

• 1845 - Pneumatic Tire - Robert Thomson, John Dunlop

• 1846 - Sewing Machine - Elias Howe Jr

• 1849 - Safety Pin - Walter Hunt

• 1849 - Glider - George Cayley

• 1849 - Buoying Vessels - Abraham Lincoln

• 1850 - Ceramic toilet 

• 1854 - Cyrus West Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858

• 1860 - Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan

• 1860 - Records

• 1867 - Typewriter - Carlos Glidden

• 1868 - Life Signals, Frank Vester

• 1868-73 - (QWERTY keyboard) - James Denmore 

• 1872 - Grocery Bag - Luther Crowell

• 1873 - Barbed wire - Joseph Glidden

• 1875 - Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell

• 1876 - Air brake - George Westinghouse

• 1876 - Centennial (100 years) 

• 1876 - AT&T - Following Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876

• 1877 - Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. 

• 1877 - Phonograph - Thomas Edison

• 1879 - Light Bulb - Thomas Edison

• 1879 - Cash Register - James Ritty

• 1880 - Electric lamp

• 1882 - Electric Iron - Henry Steely

• 1855 - Can Opener - Robert Yeates

• 1885 - Dishwasher - Josephine Garis

• 1885 - AT&T was incorporated in 1885 as a subsidiary of Bell, to build and operate the first long-distance telephone

• 1886 - William Seward Burroughs - adding machine

• 1888 - National Geographic - 130 years - Society 1889 - Wall Street Journal - DOW, SP500, New York Exchange, Baltimore Exchang, Philadelphia Exchange

• 1888 - Roll Film Camera - George Eastman (Kodak)

• 1889 - Herman Hollerith patented electromechanical punch card tabulating system 

• 1889 - William Gray is credited with inventing the coin payphone in the United States in 1889, and George A. Long was its developer

• 1890 - Inventor Herman Hollerith would eventually go on to establish a company that would become IBM

• 1890 - Washing machine - William Sellers

• 1893 - J. Frank and Charles had designed the first successful American gasoline automobile in

• 1894 - Calculator invented - Otto Steiger 

• 1895 - Breakfast Cereal - John Kellogg, Will Kellogg

• 1891 - Bottle Cap - William Painter

• 1897 - Cathode Ray Tube TV

• 1900 - Radio - Guglielmo Marconi

• 1901 - Paper Clip - John Vaaler

• 1901 - Transatlantic radio message - Guglielmo Marconi

• 1902 - Wake up Devices - Frank Clarke

• 1902 - Submarine - Cornelius Drebbel, John Holland

• 1903 - Metal pen nib

• 1903 - Phonograph 

• 1904 - Tea Bag - Thomas Sullivan

• 1904 - Air Conditioning - Willis Carrier

• 1904 - Fax machine - Arthur Korn 

• 1907 - Cutlery - Elmer Walter

• 1908 - Henry Ford introduced the Model T

• 1908 - William Durant founded General Motors

• 1910 - Vacuum cleaner - Daisy

• 1910 - Neon lights

• 1912 - Ovenproof Glass - Eugene Sullivan, Corning Glass

• 1912 - Warren clock company and battery clocks

• 1913 - Zipper / Velcro - Gideon Sunback, Whitcomb Judson

• 1918 - Tea Bag - Benjamin Hirschorn

• 1919 - Tea Bag - Joseph Krieger

• 1920 - Handheld computer - Hamilton Beach

• 1920 - Jubilee Cup - hose clip - Lumley Robinson

• 1920 - Radios for home use

• 1921 - Electric tea kettle

• 1922 - Cathode Ray Tube TV commercialized 

• 1922 - Food Processor - Stephen Poplawki - blender

• 1923 - First self-winding watch - John Harwood

• 1923-1924 - Television - John Baird, Vladimir Zworykin

• 1926 - Aerosol Can - Erik Rotheim

• 1927 - First quartz clock - Warren Marrison

• 1928 - Geiger Counter - Hans Geiger, Walther Muller

• 1928-35 - Sliced Bread - Otto Frederick Rohwedder

• 1929 - Licorice - George Bassett

• 1930 - Radio entertaining medium NBC and BBC

• 1930 - Jet Engine - Frank Wittle

• 1930-1958 - Rolodex - Arnold Neustadter

• 1932 - Anglepoise Lamp - George Carwardine

• 1933 - Polythene - Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson

• 1934 - Electric Refrigerator 

• 1934 - Catseyes - reflecting road studs - Percy Shaw

• 1935 - Radar - Robert Watson-Watt

• 1935 - Parking meter - Carlton Magee

• 1936 - Alan Turing - universal machine

• 1937 - Instant Coffee - Max Mortgenthaler

• 1938 - Instant Coffee - Nestle

• 1938 - Photocopier - Chester Carlson

• 1939 - Nonstick Pan - Roy Plunkett, Marc Gregoire

• 1939 - Hewlett-Packard 

• 1943 - ENIAC computer

• 1944 - Tetra Pak - Ruben Rausing

• 1945 - Microwave Oven - Percy Spencer

• 1946 - Disposable Diaper - Marion Donovan

• 1947 - Tupperware - Earl Tupper

• 1947 - Ovenproof Glass - S.D. Stookey, Corning Glass

• 1947 - Transistor - Willam Shockely, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain

• 1948 - Polaroid Camera - Edwin Land

• 1948 - Computer and Mouse - Freddie Williams and Thomas Kilburn

• 1949 - Bar code - Barndard Silver and Norman Woodland

• 1950 - Food Processor - Ken Wood - Food Processor

• 1950 - Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) was created

• 1951 - Correction Fluid - Bette Nesmith

• 1953 - COBOL

• 1954 - FORTRAN 

• 1955 - Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell

• 1955 - TV Remote Control - Eugene Polley

• 1958 - Flight data recorder - David Warren

• 1958 - Integrated Circuit - Jack Kirby and Robert Noyce 

• 1959 - Microchip - Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce

• 1960 - Color television had begun to replace black and white technology

• 1960 - Atomic clock - Willard Libby

• 1962 - Modem - AT&T 

• 1062 - LED - Nick Holonyak

• 1963 - Kevlar - Stephanie Kwolek, Paul Morgan

• 1963 - Cassette tapes

• 1964 - Lava Lamp - Craven Walker

• 1964 - Flat Screen TV - University of Illinois 

• 1964 - Douglas Engelbart introduces a prototype for the modern computer that includes a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI)

• 1965 - Ring Pull - Ermal Fraze

• 1965 - Wine Box - Thomas Angove

• 1967 - Computer and Mouse - Douglas Engelbart

• 1969 - Developers at Bell Labs unveil UNIX

• 1969 - C programming language 

• 1969 - Laser Printer - Gary Starkweather

• 1970 - Intel DRAM

• 1971 - Video Game Arcades

• 1971 - Food Processor - Pierre Verdun - Food Processor

• 1973 - Ethernet - Robert Metcalfe

• 1973 - IBM (bar code scanner)

• 1976 - Apple I computer

• 1977 - VHS 

• 1977 - Atari

• 1978-93 - Dual Cyclone Cleaner - James Dyson

• 1978 - Laserdisc 

• 1980 -  Jaron Lanier - Virtual reality google and gloves

• 1981 - IBM Acorn

• 1982 - CD - Compact Discs

• 1983 - Nintendo

• 1984 - IBM Point Stick, TrackPoint

• 1984 - Apple introduced Macintosh 

• 1984 - Handheld television 

• 1985 - Microsoft Windows

• 1985 - C++

• 1985 - Widget - Alan Forage and William Byrne

• 1985 - AOL founded 

• 1986 - National Science Foundation - launches NAFNET, first large scale network

• 1986 - 3D printing, Chuck Hull

• 1987 - IBM - OS 2 Warp Operating System

• 1988 - Widget - Guinness

• 1989 - Tim Berners Lee - World Wide Web 

• 1989 - Commercial ISP - Internet Service provider - dial up service

• 1990 - HTML - Tim Berners Lee 

• 1990 - Hubble Telescope

• 1991 - Tim Berners Lee - First Web browser 

• 1991 - Linux operating system - Linux Torvalds (Finland)

• 1991 - Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis

• 1991 - Garmin GPS

• 1993 - Apple Newton

• 1993 - Mosaic - First web browser 

• 1994 - Netscape Navigator 

• 1994 - Amazon, Yahoo

• 1994 - Sony PlayStation 

• 1995 - eBay

• 1995 - Windows 95

• 1995 - Internet explorer

• 1995 - Yahoo - Jerry Yang and David Filo in January (1994)

• 1995 - USB 1.0

• 1995 - Java Programming Language 

• 1996 - Hotmail 

• 1996 - Palm Pilot - handheld computer and personal information manager - touch screens

• 1997 - Land Shark - amphibious vehicles , David Baker

• 1997 - Sharp and Sony introduced the first large flat screen TV PALC Technology 

• 1997 - DVD

• 1997 - IBM Deep Blue Beats Garry Kasparov 

• 1997 - Red Hat Linux 5.2

• 1997 - IPv4

• 1997 - Netflix, Palm Pilot

• 1997 - Toyota Prius Hybrid electric vehicle

• 1998 - Windows 98

• 1998 - Google

• 1998 - Smart homes

• 1999 - WiFi, Bluetooth

• 2000 - Windows NT - new technologies 

• 2000 - Microsoft splits into 5 departments

• 2000 - Windows 2000

• 2000 - USB 2.0

• 2001 - Apple introduced Unix like system for Mac OS X, Apple introduced iPod

• 2001 - Wikipedia

• 2001 - Microsoft Xbox

• 2002 - The total number of personal computers, both desktop and laptop reach 1 billion

• 2002 - 3G Network, Roku

• 2003 - Windows XP

• 2003 - Microsoft Office / Microsoft Works

• 2003 - Google - Gmail

• 2003 - Apple iTunes

• 2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)

• 2005 - Windows Vista

• 2005 - Apple used IBM Power PC chips

• 2005 - YouTube

• 2006 - Tesla Motors

• 2006 - Twitter, Blu Ray

• 2006 - The transistors used to create LCD flat screens

• 2006 - Apple began using Intel chips

• 2007 - Apple introduced the iPhone 

• 2007 - Amazon releases kindle

• 2007 - Apple iPhone, Amazon Prime

• 2007 - Smart Thermostats - Ecobee

• 2008 - Google Android Phones, Google Releases mobile operating system - Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Stanford University)

• 2008 - Sirius XM Radio

• 2009 - Bing, Bitcoin

• 2009 - 4G Networks

• 2009 - LCD flat screens dominated the TV market

• 2009 - Samsung Galaxy

• 2009 - Fitbit

• 2010 - Chevy Volt

• 2010 - Nissan Leaf

• 2010 - Analog to Digital TV Transition

• 2010 - Instagram

• 2010 - Apple sells 3 million iPad

• 2010 - Windows 7

• 2011 - Google chrome book 

• 2012 - Windows 8 operating system

• 2013 - Smartwatches

• 2014 - Amazon Echo

• 2014 - Apple Pay

• 2015 - IPv6

• 2016 - Windows 10

• 2016 - TikTok

• 2017 - Internet speed record 26.2 tbps

• [2018] - Winter Olympics: Pyeongchang, Korea

• 2018 - Mars Insight Lander

• 2018 - 2019 - 5G Networks

• 2018 - Apple reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2019 - SpaceX Starlink

• 2019 - Microsoft reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2020 - Internet speed record - 44.2 tbps

• 2020 - Internet speed record - 178 tbps

• 2020 - Apple reaches $2 trillion dollars

• 2020 - Alphabet reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2020 - Amazon reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2021 - Mars rover and Ingenuity Helicopter

• 2021 - Metaverse

• 2021 - Internet speed record - 319 Tbps - terabits per second

• 2021 - Microsoft reaches $2 trillion dollars

• 2021 - Facebook reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2021 - Tesla reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2021 - Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, Space X space launches, James Web Telescope

• 2021 - Infrastructure Bill

• 2021 - Ocean cleanup pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage patch 

• 2022 - Human genome decode complete

• 2022 - Google deep mind ai - 200 million proteins

• 2022 - Earth Biogenome Project

• 2022 - Human Cell Atlas

• 2022 - World economy GDP exceed $100 trillion dollars

• 2022 - World population reaches 8 billion

• 2022 - Internet speed record - 1 Pbps - petabit per second

• 2022 - Esnet6 network at 46 terabits tbps.

• 2022 - Frontier exabyte supercomputer

• 2022 - SLS Artemis moon mission launch

• 2022 - National Ignition Facility

• 2023 - ChatGPT

• 2023 - Wifi 7 routers - 46 gbps

• 2023 - Nvidia reaches $1 trillion dollars

• 2023 - Apple Vision Pro

• 2023 - Internet speed record - 1.8 pbps 

• 2023 - Psyche mission to asteroid Pysche 16

• 2023 - Amazon Project Kupier