List of technologies
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Here is a list of significant technological developments, by chronological order and organized by their type.
Prehistoric Era [edit]
(Before 3500 BC)
Practical Technologies [edit]
- c. 2 mya : Simple stone technology
- c. 1.5 mya : Fire creation [1]
- c. 1.2 mya years ago : Stone tools
- c. 110,000 years ago : Fur clothing [2]
- c. 43,000 years ago : Mining [3]
- c. 40,000 years ago : Logboat [4]
- c. 36,000 years ago : Bone flute [5]
- c. 32,000 BC : Animal domestication [6]
- c. 30,000 years ago : String [7]
- c. 30,000 years ago : Painting [8]
- c. 23,000 BC : Ceramics [9]
- c. 18,000 BC : Sewing [10]
- c. 15,000 BC : Rope [11]
- c. 10,000 BC : Plant domestication
- c. 8000 BC : Brick [12]
- c. 8000 BC : Spindle [12]
- c. 7000 BC : Metalworking [13]
- c. 6000 BC : Salt cultivation
- c. 5000 BC : Leather [14]
- c. 5000 BC : Irrigation [15]
- c. 4500 BC : Equestrianism
- c. 4000 BC : Weaving loom [16]
- c. 4000 BC : Wheel
Military Technologies [edit]
- c. 1.6 mya : Acheulean hand axes
- c. 400,000 years ago : Spear and Javelin [17]
- c. 25,000 BC : Dart thrower [18]
- c. 18,000 years ago : Boomerang [19]
- c. 12,000 BC : Mace
- c. 9200 BC : Microliths
- c. 9000 BC : Bow
- c. 7000 BC : Defensive wall [20]
Astronomical Technologies [edit]
Classical Era [edit]
(3500 BC - 500 AD)
Practical Technologies [edit]
- c. 3500 BC : Writing systems
- c. 3000 BC : Mummification [21]
- c. 3000 BC : Papyrus [22]
- c. 3000 BC : Ard plough [22]
- c. 3000 BC : Wheel [22]
- c. 3000 BC : Glass making
- c. 3000 BC : Galley
- c. 3000 BC : Pottery [23]
- c. 2800 BC : Metallurgy/Bronze forging [13]
- c. 2700 BC : Plumbing
- c. 2500 BC : Abacus
- c. 2000 BC : Iron Smelting [13]
- 2nd millennium BC : Arch
- c. 1700 BC : Alphabet
- c. 1500 BC : Glass making [22]
- c. 11th century BC : Steel [13]
- c. 800 BC : Saddle
- c. 710 BC : Lock [22]
- c. 600 BC : Aqueduct [24]
- c. 600 BC : Archimedes' screw
- 6th century BC : Caliper
- c. 515 BC : Crane
- c. 325 BC : Odometer
- 3rd century BC : Watermill
- c. 200-300 BC : Block and tackle
- c. 100-500 BC : Horseshoe
- c. 100 BC : Paper
- 50 AD : Aeolipile [25]
Military Technologies [edit]
- c. 3000 BC : Sword [26]
- c. 2600 BC : Chariot [27]
- c. 800 BC : Ram bow
- 8th century BC : Incendiary arrows
- c. 700 BC : Polyreme [28]
- 5th century BC : Crossbow
- 399 BC : Catapult
- 359-336 BC : Pike
- c. 130 BC : Stirrup [29]
- 50 BC : Scorpio
Astronomical Technologies [edit]
- c. 4000 BC : Calendar [30]
- c. 1500 BC : Water clock [22]
- c. 1500 BC : Sundial [31]
- c. 1100 BC : Gnomon
- c. 2300 BC : Map [32]
- c. 300 BC : Hemicycle
- c. 130 BC : Orrery
Medieval Era [edit]
(500 AD - 1450 AD)
Practical Technologies [edit]
Military Technologies [edit]
- c. 672 AD : Greek fire
- c. 1350 AD : Longsword
- c. 1400 AD : Plate armour
- c. 1500 AD : Supergun
Astronomical Technologies [edit]
- 1283 AD : Mechanical clock
Renaissance Era [edit]
(1450 - 1800 AD)
Practical Technologies [edit]
- 1656 AD : Pendulum clock
Military Technologies [edit]
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References [edit]
- ^ This is the earliest possible time at which fire could have been invented [1]
- ^ Clothing was first worn some time between 100,000 years ago - 500,000 years ago [2]
- ^ Establishment of the first mining operation in history
- ^ The colonisation of Australia was the first verifiable usage of any form of sea transportation [3]
- ^ This is the earliest possible time when the first flute was created
- ^ The earliest speculated remains of a dog
- ^ This is of course discounting the use of natural plant fibers as early string. [4]
- ^ Earliest works of art found in Africa 30,000 years ago
- ^ First piece of ceramic artistry made 25,000 years ago, far earlier than the rest of the world [5]
- ^ Archaeologists discovered the earliest sewing needles of bone, 20,000 years ago [6]
- ^ J.C. Turner and P. van de Griend (ed.), The History and Science of Knots (Singapore: World Scientific, 1996),
- ^ a b Article on the human crafts around 8000 BC
- ^ a b c d History of metallurgy
- ^ See also: source from where this site gets the information
- ^ http://www.homefurnish.com/homeimprovement/plumbing/historyofirrigation.aspx
- ^ First woven fabrics made 6000 years ago by Egyptians
- ^ Article on the oldest spears found
- ^ Although it is believed to have been invented 40,000 years ago, evidence only points to as early as 25,000 BC [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ Jericho was the first settlement to have artificially created walls, for the purpose of defense. Ring et al., 1994, p. 367–370.
- ^ The first artificially mummified head was found in the Andes
- ^ a b c d e f http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?HistoryID=ab23¶graphid=bzeb#bzeb
- ^ First potter's wheel built in Mesopotamia
- ^ [9]
- ^ A Brief History of Science edited by John Gribbin, p 12
- ^ Around this time daggers truly evolved into recognizable swords
- ^ First depictions of chariots in battle are from 2600 BC
- ^ Invented by the Phoenicians c. 700 BC
- ^ Invented some time in the late 2nd century BC
- ^ A crude calendar was developed by the early Egyptian peoples, it however still had a lot to improve on [10]
- ^ First sundial, or Shadow clock, from Ancient Egypt
- ^ Found on clay Babylonian tablets
- ^ The Science Book edited by Peter Tallack, p34
