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Timeline of invention

This is a list of inventions, listed in chronological order.

Table of contents
1 Significant inventions not assigned
2 Significant inventions, arranged in chronological order
2.1 8th millennium BC
2.2 7th millennium BC
2.3 4th millennium BC
2.4 3rd millennium BC
2.5 23rd century BC
2.6 22nd century BC
2.7 21st century BC
2.8 19th century BC
2.9 18th century BC
2.10 16th century BC
2.11 15th century BC
2.12 10th century BC
2.13 7th century BC
2.14 460s BC
2.15 410s BC
2.16 400s BC
2.17 350s BC
2.18 220s BC
2.19 150s BC
2.20 100s BC
2.21 1-99
2.22 100-199
2.23 200-299
2.24 300-399
2.25 400-499
2.26 500-599
2.27 600-699
2.28 700-799
2.29 800-899
2.30 900-999
2.31 1000-1099
2.32 1100-1099
2.33 1200-1299
2.34 1300-1399
2.35 1400-1499
2.36 1500-1599
2.37 1600-1699
2.38 1700-1799
2.39 1800-1899
2.40 1900-1999
2.41 2000-2099
3 See also

Significant inventions not assigned

  • the arch - used extensively by Rome but existing earlier
  • cultivation of lactic acid bacteria, used on milk, vegetables and skin
  • other types of bacteria, for example used for tanning and producing vinegar
  • the pulley
  • the screw
  • soap
  • the stirrup
  • the use of yeast for making wine, beer and bread

Significant inventions, arranged in chronological order

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded, version of the invention should be used here.

8th millennium BC

7th millennium BC

4th millennium BC

33rd century BC

31st century BC

3rd millennium BC

27th century BC

23rd century BC

22nd century BC

21st century BC

  • Cretan writing

19th century BC

18th century BC

16th century BC

15th century BC

10th century BC

7th century BC

460s BC

410s BC

400s BC

350s BC


  •  rotation of Earth -Hereclides

  

220s BC


150s BC


100s BC


1-99


100-199



200-299


300-399


400-499


500-599


600-699


700-799


800-899


900-999


  •  Gunpowder (in China: some ref says 8th century?)
    

1000-1099


1100-1099


1200-1299


1300-1399


1400-1499


1500-1599


1600-1699


1700-1799


1800-1899


1800s


1810s


1820s


1830s


1840s


1850s


1860s


1870s


1880s


1890s


1900-1999


1900s


1910s


1920s


1930s


1940s


1950s


1960s


1970s


1980s


1990s


2000-2099


  •  put significant 21st century inventions here
    

See also


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