2.3 million – 50,000 years Ago Spoken Language

Art and Drawing 30,000 BCE

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3,000 BCETrade Routes

2000 BCE: Carrier Pigions

3000 – 800 BCE: Written Language

300 BC: Libraries (Alexandria and Centralization)

Vellum & Parchment

1st Century BC: Books/Codex

Medieval Cathedrals, Stained Glass, Statuary

Scriptoriums and Illuminated Manuscripts

1088: Universities

1300s: Paper Spreads Throughout Europe

1450: Moveable Type

Literature

16th Century Global Currency

1605: First Newspaper

1641 Blaise Pascal's Calculator

1653: Postal Service

1731: First Magazines

1771 Jaquet Droz Automatons

1775 Common Sense

1801 Jacquard Loom   /  Industrial Revolution

1810s: First Trains

1820s: First Photography

1835: Braille

1835: Telegraph

1843: First Fax Machine

Babbage Analytical Machine & Difference Engine 2

1860 American Civil War

1872: First Mail Order Catalog

1876: Telephone

"Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you."

1876: Player Piano

1877: Practical Sound Recording

1879: Incandescent Lightbulb/Electric Light

1887: Radio

1890: Punch Card Computers

1895: Motion Pictures

1880s: Automobiles

1927: Television

1937-50: First Electronic Computers

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1944: Colossus

1945: Atomic Bomb