This document provides a timeline of important inventions from 10 million years ago to present day, including the earliest tools made of stone and wood, early boats constructed for transportation, and hand-made bricks used for early construction. Key inventions highlighted throughout history include the introduction of bronze, early irrigation devices, the Iron Age, papermaking in China, the telescope, the first speech synthesizer, photography, the Model T automobile, Sputnik, and the first touchscreen smartphone.

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NIKIFOROS PETEINARIS
GIORGOS
SPILIOTOPOULOS
PROJECT G5 2017

2. 10 million years ago.
 Humans made the
first tools from
stone, wood, antlers
and bones.
 These tools work
like extensions of
your body, making
you feel much
stronger and helping
you work faster and
more efficiently.
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3. 10,000 BCE
 Earliest boats are
constructed.
 Boats were
constructed for
easier transportation
either for trade or
for exploration.
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4. 6000– 7000 BCE
 Hand-made bricks
first used for
construction in the
Middle East.
 Bricks or ceramics
are used for house
building etc. but
scientists say that
this is not the first
time ceramics are
being used.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/ceramics.html#b

5. 3000– 600BCE
 Bronze Age
 Bronze is introduced
to humans.
 Widespread use of
copper and its
important alloy
bronze.
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6. 2000 BCE
 Water-raising and
irrigation devices
made possible the
introduction of
inventions like the
idea of lifting things
using
counterweights that
lead to the elevator.
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7. 1000 BCE
 The Iron Age begins
 Iron is widely used
for making tools and
weapons in many
parts of the world.
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8. 105 CE
 Ts'ai Lun makes the
first paper in china.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

9. 1609
 Galileo Galilei
builds a practical
telescope and makes
new astronomical
discoveries.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

10. 1769
Wolfgang von
Kempelen develops
a mechanical
speaking machine:
the world's first
speech synthesizer.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

11. 1827
 Joseph Niepce
makes the first
modern photograph
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

12. 1908
 American
industrialist and
engineer Henry Ford
launches the Ford
Model T, the world's
first truly affordable
car.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

13. 1957
 Soviet Union (Russia
and her allies)
launch the Sputnik
space satellite.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

14. 2007
 Apple introduces
the first touch screen
smartphone.
 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

15. SOME MEMORABLE
MENTIONS
 THE WHEEL
 THERMOMETER
 NUCLEAR
ENERGY
 AIR BALLOON
 AIRPLANE
 TELEVISION