The Most Important Inventions in the History of the World ?
c 3500 BC
wheel
c 1000 AD c 1450
gunpowder (China) printing
c 1780 c 1790 c 1800 c 1800 c 1840 c 1850 c 1856 c 1860 c 1875 c 1885 c 1888 c 1878 1895 1903 1922 1928 1936 1945 1963 c 1980
steam engine (James Watt 1765) canals (Bridgewater Canal 1764) turnpikes (1663) vaccination (against smallpox) railways (Stockton to Darlington 1825) steel steamships telegraph telephone internal combustion engine (car) pneumatic tyre electric light X-rays (Wilhelm Röntgen) first powered flight (aeroplane) radio (BBC began broadcasting) penicillin television nuclear weapons (the Atomic Bomb) manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin) micro-computer