Timeline of Historic Inventions

The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.

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 more practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here.

History of technology
By technological eras
  • Neolithic Revolution
  • Renaissance technology
  • British Agricultural Revolution
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Second Industrial Revolution
  • Atomic Age
  • Jet Age
  • Space Age
  • Information Age
  • Digital Revolution
  • Social Age
By historical regions
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient India
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Medieval Europe
  • Medieval Islamic world
By type of technology
  • History of biotechnology
  • History of communication
  • History of computer hardware
  • History of electrical engineering
  • History of materials science
  • History of measurement
  • History of medicine
  • History of nuclear technology
  • History of transport
Technology timelines
  • Timeline of historic inventions
  • Complete list
Outlines
  • Outline of technology
  • Outline of prehistoric technology

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