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Timeline of historic inventions
The
timeline of historic inventions
is a chronological list of particularly important or significanttechnologicalinventions.
 Note:
Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by severalinventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years beforeanother inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the dateof the first known working version of the invention is used here.
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1
Paleolithic era 
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2
Antiquity 
o
 
2
.
1
 
10
th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.
2
9th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.3 8th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.4 7th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.5 6th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.6 5th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.7 4th millennium BC 
o
 
2
.8 3rd millennium BC 
o
 
2
.9
2
nd millennium BC 
o
 
2
.
10
 
1
st millennium BC 
y
 
3
1
st millennium AD 
o
 
3.
1
 
1
st-5th centuries 
o
 
3.
2
6th-8th centuries 
o
 
3.3 9th-
10
th centuries 
y
 
4
2
nd millennium 
o
 
4.
1
 
11
th century 
o
 
4.
2
 
12
th century 
o
 
4.3
1
3th century 
o
 
4.4
1
4th century 
o
 
4.5
1
5th century 
o
 
4.6
1
6th century 
o
 
4.7
1
7th century 
o
 
4.8
1
8th century 
o
 
4.9
1
9th century 
 
4.9.
1
 
1
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s 
 
4.9.
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1
8
10
s 
 
 
4.9.3
1
8
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4.9.5
1
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4.9.6
1
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4.9.7
1
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4.9.8
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s 
 
4.9.9
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88
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4.9.
10
 
1
89
0
s 
o
 
4.
10
 
20
th century 
 
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1
9
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s 
 
4.
10
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1
9
10
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4.
10
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1
9
20
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4.
10
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s 
 
4.
10
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1
94
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4.
10
.6
1
95
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4.
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1
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4.
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1
97
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4.
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4.
10
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10
 
1
99
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5 3rd millennium 
o
 
5.
1
 
21
st century 
 
5.
1
.
1
 
2000
s 
y
 
6 See also 
y
 
7 Notes 
y
 
8 References 
y
 
9 External links 
[
edit] Paleolithic era
 Main ar 
t 
icl 
e:
  Pal 
eo
li
th
ic
 
y
 
Indeterminate:Music,Language 
y
 
2
.4Ma BP:Olduwan- struck stone tools, inEast Africa 
y
 
1
.65 Ma:Acheulean- struck and reworkedstone tools, inKenya 
y
 
1
.4 Ma:KnifeinEthiopia 
y
 
1
Ma: Controlledfireandsterilizationof food and water (cooking) inEast Africa 
y
 
5
00
ka: Shelter construction
[1
]
 
y
 
100
-5
00
ka:Clothing 
y
 
4
00
ka:PigmentsinZambia 
[2
]
 
y
 
4
00
ka:SpearsinGermany 
[
3]
 
y
 
200
ka:BurialinAfrica 
y
 
1
4
0
ka:Bone toolsin Africa (seeBlombos Cave)
y
 
1
4
0
ka: Shellfishing in Africa (seeBlombos Cave)
 
y
 
100
ka:Lithic bladesin Africa and theancient Near East 
y
 
6
0
ka:Shipsprobably used by settlers of  New Guinea 
y
 
5
0
ka:FluteinSlovenia 
y
 
5
0
ka:BowinTunisia 
[
4]
 
[
5]
 
y
 
43 ka:MininginSwazilandandHungary 
y
 
37 ka:Tally sticksinSwaziland 
[
6]
 
y
 
3
0
ka:Sewing needles 
y
 
2
6 ka:CeramicsinMoravia 
y
 
2
5 ka:Atlatlin Northwest Africa 
[
7]
 
y
 
1
7 ka: twistedRope(probably much earlier)
y
 
1
5 ka:BoomeranginAustralia
[
8]
 
y
 
12
ka:Basket weaving 
[
edit] Antiquity
[
edit] 10th millennium B
C
 
y
 
Agriculturein theFertile Crescent 
y
 
Alcoholic beveragesin theFertile Crescent 
y
 
Adobein theancient Near East 
y
 
95
00
BC:Granaryin theJordan Valley 
[
edit] 9th millennium B
C
 
y
 
87
00
BC:Metalworking(copper pendant) inMesopotamia(Iraq
 
)
y
 
8
000
BC:Wall(Jericho)
[
edit] 8th millennium B
C
 
y
 
Animal husbandryin theancient Near East 
y
 
Plaster inJericho 
[
edit] 7th millennium B
C
 
y
 
7
000
BC:Dental drillinMehrgarh,Pakistan
[
9]
 
y
 
6
200
BC:MapinÇatalhöyük  
y
 
Clothwoven fromflaxfiber 
[
edit] 6th millennium B
C
 
y
 
Irrigationin theFertile Crescent 
y
 
Beer inSumer ,Mesopotamia(Iraq
 
)
[
8]
 
y
 
CityinMesopotamia(Iraq)
y
 
PloughinMesopotamia(Iraq
 
)
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