Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery Josephine Cochran invents the dishwasher. American industrialist and engineer Henry Ford launches the Ford Model T, the world's first truly affordable car. Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic The timeline of the inventions of the Renaissance period is given in this article. Thomas Edison invents his sound-recording machine or phonograph—a forerunner of the record player and CD player. about artificial humans. American-born mathematician John Daugman perfects the mathematics that make iris scanning systems possible. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Please do NOT copy our articles onto blogs and other websites. Expand your vocabulary with our fun word searches! in many of the world's hydropower plants. Stanford Ovshinksy develops various technologies that make renewable Pierre Omidyar launches the eBay auction website. Elisha Graves Otis invents the elevator with built-in safety brake. Also, several of these include related discoveriesor inventions.) Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invent the CCD (charge-coupled device): the light-sensitive chip used in digital cameras, webcams, and other modern optical equipment. 1. the discovery of fire 2. the invention of farming (planting seeds, then caringfor and harvesting the crops) 3. the invention of the wheel 4. the invention of sails and sailing ships 5. the invention of gunp… Please rate or give feedback on this page and I will make a donation to WaterAid. The history of technology begins even before the beginning of our own species. Electronic ink is pioneered by Nick Sheridon at Xerox PARC. Larry Hornbeck, working at Texas Instruments, develops DLP® projection—now used in many projection TV systems. Thomas Newcomen builds the first practical (but stationary) house. one of the world's first personal home computers. (There are many others-- maybe even more important.This list is just a sample. Achievements by Black inventors can be seen as far back as ancient Africa but much of society has no idea that many of the products or devices that make their everyday lives more enjoyable are the result of the hard work and ingenuity of Blacks. Please note: it's not meant to be a complete history of everything, the iPhone. James Francis invents a water turbine now used Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke, in fax machine called the pantelegraph. Leo Baekeland develops Bakelite, the first Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number Nazca people of Peru are believed to have experimented with balloon flight. iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot. You can see that in our mini chronology of Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking. maser (microwave laser). 3,400 BC The wheel is invented. Stung by Apple's success, IBM releases its own by the Ancient Egyptians, introduce the idea of lifting things using counterweights. inspire programmable computers. television. Sputnik space satellite. Indian physicist Narinder Kapany pioneers fiber optics. German watchmaking company Junghans introduces the MEGA 1, believed to be the world's first radio-controlled wristwatch. Thales of Miletus discovers static electricity. John Campbell invents the sextant, an improved navigational device that enables sailors to measure latitude. Axel Cronstedt notices steam when he boils a rock—and discovers zeolites. Copycats. John Boyd Dunlop patents air-filled (pneumatic) tires. returns to Syracuse 263 B.C. All Timelines Overview Rather, it begins with the long history of infectious disease in humans, and in particular, with early uses of smallpox material to provide immunity to that disease. Text copyright © Chris Woodford 2008, 2021. silver, gold, and copper. hot-air balloon. Robert H. Dennard of IBM invents dynamic random access memory (DRAM). This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its predecessor states.To read about the background to these events, see History of China.See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties in Chinese history and years in China. Linus Torvalds creates the first version of that are the ancestors of modern automated factory machines. turbine known as a Pelton wheel. (2008/2021) Technology timeline. Create a Timeline Now; Life of Archimedes . Mar 11, 1892, The game of basketball was created by James Naismith Scientists including Charles Bennett, Paul Benioff, Richard Feynman, and David Deutsch sketch out how quantum computers