Timeline of Discovery

3000 BC: Sabu disk

1750 BC: Hammurabi's Code

507 BC: Cleisthenes establishes democracy in Athens

260 BC: Archimedes' principle

196 BC: Rosetta Stone

150 BC: Antikythera Mechanism

50 AD: Hero's Aeolipile

400 AD: Iron pillar of Delhi

400 AD: First cast church bells

600 AD: Batik silk painting

1215: Magna Carta

1354: Shroud of Turin

1386: Salisbury Cathedral clock

1455: Gutenberg's printing press

1480: Housebook of Wolfegg Castle

1492: Christopher Columbus discovers America

1513: Piri Reis map

1517: Martin Luther's 95 Theses

1569: Mercator projection

1602: Galileo discovers isochrony of pendulums

1608: Hans Lippershey's telescope

1617: Napier's bones

1656: Huygens builds first pendulum clock

1666: Newton splits light with a prism, develops calculus

1664: Hooke's law, balance springs

1675: Huygens refines balance springs

1675: Leibniz develops calculus

1687: Newton's Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1695: Tompion's cylinder escapement

1701: Jethro Tull's seed drill

1712: Newcomen's engine

1714: Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer

1715: Graham's deadbeat escapement

1720-1772: John Harrison makes clocks

1733: John Kay's flying shuttle

1745: Leyden jar, first capacitor

1751: Vaucanson's lathe

1755: Mudge's lever escapement

1770: Mechanical Turk

1769: Watt patents improved steam engine

1784: Watt's rotary motion steam engine

1784-1790: Anglo-French Survey

1794: Philip Vaughan's ball bearings

1799: The metric system officially adopted in France

1803: Brunel's mass production of pulley blocks

1803: Young's double-slit experiment

1804: Jacquard's loom

1807: Fulton demonstrates first commercially-successful steam boat

1821: Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation, motor precursor

1824: Orsted produces first aluminium

1825: First train service opens (Stockton and Darlington Railway)

1831: Faraday discovers induction

1836: Morse code

1837: Babbage describes Analytical Engine

1839: Daguerreotype

1841: Whitworth screw thread standard

1843: Ada Lovelace writes first computer program

1847: Boolean algebra

1851: Foucault's pendulum

1856: Bessemer process for refining pig iron into steel

1860: Lenoir's internal combustion engine

1865: Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

1867: Wheatstone's Cryptograh

1869: Mendeleev's periodic table

1875: The Metre Convention is signed

1876: Otto cycle

1879: Edison's electric light bulb

1886: Hall-Heroult process for smelting aluminium

1895: Marconi's wireless telegraph

1897: Thomson discovers the electron

1903: Wright Flyer

1905: Einstein's "Annus mirabilis", special relativity

1908: Model T Ford mass production

1910-1913: Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica

1912: Titanic sinks

1913: Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine

1914-1917: Shackleton's Endurance expedition to Antarctica

1915: Einstein discovers general relativity

1931: Godel's incompleteness theorems

1936: Church-Turing thesis

1939: Turing's Bombe

1937: Shannon's application of Boolean algebra to electrical circuits

1945: Von Neumann architecture

1947: Bell Labs' transistor

1949: First atomic clock

1953: Watson and Crick discover DNA double helix

1956: Kleene's regular expression formalisation

1957: Sputnik-1 launched

1957: Wankel rotary engine

1958: Carbon-fibre composites

1964: IBM System/360

1969: Apollo 11, first man on moon

1969: UNIX

1971: Intel 4004, first commercially-available microprocessor

1977: Voyager spacecraft launch carrying Golden record

1983: TCP/IP

1989: Tim Berners-Lee proposes world-wide web

1991: Linux

1997: Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at chess

2009: Bitcoin

2015: Burgess Clock B trials

2017: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go

2019: GPT-2