Timeline of Technology
|
1750 |
The lightning rod |
|
1776 |
The submarine |
|
1790 |
First American patent |
|
1794 |
Cotton gin |
|
1800 |
Steam powered pumping station |
|
1806 |
Coffee pot |
|
1807 |
Steamboat |
|
1813 |
Armored warship |
|
1818 |
Profile lathe |
|
1831 |
Reaping machine |
|
1833 |
Sewing machine |
|
1834 |
Threshing machine |
|
1836 |
Revolver |
|
1837 |
Power tools |
|
1842 |
Ether Anesthesia |
|
1843 |
Vulcanized Rubber |
|
1844 |
Telegraph |
|
1846 |
Cylinder printing press |
|
1857 |
Passenger elevator |
|
1858 |
Burglar alarm |
|
1867 |
Barbed wire |
|
1873 |
Typewriter |
|
1875 |
Mimeograph |
|
1876 |
Telephone
|
|
1877 |
Phonograph |
|
1879 |
Incandescent light bulb |
|
1880 |
Hearing aid |
|
1882 |
Electric fan |
|
1884 |
Thrill ride |
|
1885 |
Skyscraper |
|
1887 |
“Platter” record |
|
1888 |
Kodak camera |
|
1889 |
Dishwasher |
|
1890 |
Escalator |
|
1891 |
Gasoline-powered car |
|
1897 |
Player piano |
|
1898 |
Active submarine |
|
1899 |
Air conditioning |
|
1990 |
Airplane |
|
1996 |
Radio broadcast |
|
1908 |
Model T |
|
1914 |
Panama Canal |
|
1917 |
War weapons (dangerous ones) |
|
1919 |
Hydrofoil |
|
1926 |
Rocket |
|
1927 |
Television |
|
1929 |
Refrigerating |
|
1931 |
Radio Astronomy |
|
1932 |
Defibrillator |
|
1937 |
Chair lift |
|
1938 |
Nylon |
|
1939 |
Digital computer |
|
1940 |
Jeep |
|
1942 |
Atomic reaction |
|
1945 |
Atomic bomb |
|
1947 |
Polaroid camera |
|
1948 |
Electric guitar |
|
1953 |
Heart-lung machine |
|
1955 |
Nuclear submarine |
|
1957 |
Polio vaccine |
|
1958 |
Explorer I |
|
1960 |
Laser |
|
1964 |
Operating system |
|
1965 |
Minicomputer |
|
1969 |
Moon landing (look at space technology for more info) |
|
1970 |
Optical fiber |
|
1972 |
First video game (look at gaming councils for more info} |
|
1974 |
Barcode |
|
1975 |
Microsoft |
|
1976 |
Super computer |
|
1979 |
Human powered flight |
|
1981 |
Space shuttle (look at space technology for more info) |
|
1982 |
Artificial heart |
|
1983 |
PC |
|
1985 |
Genetic engineering |
|
1990 |
Hubble telescope |