Timeline · 1440 to 2007
Inventions That Changed the World
From the printing press to the phone in your pocket. How many can you put in order before you scroll?
c. 1440
Printing press with movable typeJohannes Gutenberg1608
Telescope (first patent application)Hans Lipperhey1712
Steam engine for pumping waterThomas Newcomen1800
Electric batteryAlessandro Volta1804
Steam railway locomotiveRichard Trevithickc. 1826
First lasting photographNicéphore Niépce1844
Long-distance telegraph messageSamuel Morse1876
TelephoneAlexander Graham Bell1877
PhonographThomas Edison1879
Long-lasting light bulbThomas Edison (and Joseph Swan in England)1886
Petrol-powered carKarl Benz1895
Radio signalsGuglielmo Marconi1903
Powered aeroplane flightWilbur and Orville Wright1913
Moving assembly lineFord Motor Company1927
Electronic televisionPhilo Farnsworth1928
PenicillinAlexander Fleming1947
TransistorBell Labs1957
First artificial satellite, Sputnik 1Soviet Union1969
People walk on the MoonApollo 111989
World Wide Web (proposed)Tim Berners-Lee2007
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