🔥 Fire
c. 400,000 BCE, Homo erectus
💡 Inventions & Innovations
From the wheel to electricity, humans have never stopped innovating. Discover how brilliant ideas became essential inventions. Explore those moments of genius that allowed us to better understand the world.
🌾 Invention of Agriculture
c. 10,000 BCE, Early human communities
🎡 Wheel
c. 3500 BCE, Mesopotamia
✍️ Writing
c. 3400 BCE, Mesopotamia
☀️ Astrolabe
c. 2nd century BCE, Hipparchus
🧭 Compass
c. 2nd century BCE, Ancient China
🧨 Gunpowder
9th century, Chinese alchemists
⏰ Clock
13th century, European clockmakers
🖨️ Printing Press
c. 1440, Johannes Gutenberg
🔬 Microscope
c. 1590, Zacharias Janssen
🔭 Telescope
1608, Hans Lippershey
🚂 Steam Engine
1769, James Watt
🪂 Parachute
1783, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
💉 Vaccine
1796, Edward Jenner
🔋 Electric Battery
1800, Alessandro Volta
⚡ Electricity
1752 / 1831, Benjamin Franklin and Michael Faraday
⚡ Telegraph
1837, Samuel Morse
☎️ Telephone
1876, Alexander Graham Bell
💡 Light Bulb
1879, Thomas Edison
🚗 Automobile
1886, Carl Benz
📻 Radio
1895, Guglielmo Marconi
💊 Penicillin
1928, Alexander Fleming
💻 First Computer
1945, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
💳 Credit Card
1950, Frank McNamara and Ralph Schneider