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

Significant inventions not assigned

pre homo sapiens technology:

with homo sapiens:

  • use of pigments (cave paintings/ ceremonial body paint/ painting of clothes and artifacts).
  • the arch - used extensively by Rome but existing earlier
  • the canoe and the boat
  • cultivation of lactic acid bacteria, used on milk, vegetables and skin
  • use of other types of bacteria, for example used for tanning and producing vinegar
  • the pulley
  • the screw
  • soap
  • the stirrup

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

2nd millennium BC

19th century BC

18th century BC

16th century BC

15th century BC

1st millennium BC

7th century BC

6th century BC

5th century BC

4th century BC

3rd century BC

2nd century BC

1st century BC

1st millennium

1st century

2nd century

3rd century

The Nydam Boats. Without sails but with ship-hulls similar to that of the later age viking-ships.

4th century

5th century

6th century

7th century

8th century

9th century

10th century

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

2nd millennium

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s

20th century

1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s

3rd millennium

21st century

  • 2001: Digital satellite radio
  • 2001: Artificial heart.

See also

Other technology timelines

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