FIRE (400,000 BCE): The controlled use of fire was an invention in the early Stone Age, with some of the earliest evidence dating back to hundreds of thousands of years age. It's not exactly certain when fire was first being used by humans, but most research puts it somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 years ago.
WHEEL (3400 BCE): The next significant step in the history of innovation came with the creation of the wheel, sometime between 3300 and 3500 BCE We know this thanks to the discovery in southern Poland of the earliest known depiction of a wheeled vehicle on a claay pot.
MONEY (3000 BCE): The next critically important innovation that contributed to the development of a strong human civilization was money. Around 3000 BCE, the Sumerians were one of the first societies (if not the first) to begin using money to help the ease of commerce and exchanging of goods, replacing the barter system.
PAPER (105): Moving in to the Common Era (CE) calendar, we saw the creation of paper, which was first used by the Chinese in around the year 105. Around the sixteenth century, wood pulp paper became more widely used, replacing rag paper. With wood paper , knowledge could spread much more easily.
ELECTRICITY (1600): Going forward to 1600, English scientist William Gilbert coined the term electricity, which originated from the greek word for amber. Later, in 1752, Ben Franklin showed that lighting and the spark from amber were one and the same substance: electricity.
PENICILLIN (1896): In 1896, the French medical student Ernest Duchesne originally discovered the antibiotic properties of Penicillium, however his research went mostly unnoticed. It took until 1928 for Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming to re-discovered penicillin. Penicillin enabling doctors to fight bacterial infections, save lives, and tuberculosis.
TELEVISION (1926): The creation of television happened in 1926, but there were many inventions that led up to it, including the discovery of the photoconductivity of selenium in 1873 by Willoughby Smith and the 1884 invention of the scanning disk by Paul Nipkow. It was John Logie Baird who created the first television moving images in 1926. Ten years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) broadcast the first public television show.
DNA (1953): In 1953, James Waston and Francis Crick discovered DNA while working at Cambridge University. The duo suggested that the correct model for DNA structure was the double helix model and famously walked into a local pub and exclaimed, "We have found the secret of life."
INTERNET (1969): In 1969, we saw the creation of the early Internet, called the ARPANET, which was built by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency The ARPANET delivered its first message on October 29, 1969 between UCLA and Stanford. The first message was simply the word "log in". By the end of 1969, four computers were connected to the ARPANET had turned into a global network that was used to send files and data from one computer to another. But it took ubtil 1991 for the creation of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which enabled the creation of a web of hyperlink documents.
MOBILE PHONE (1973): In 1973, Motorola launched the first handheld mobile phone. The first prototype weight 2.5 pounds, offered 30 minutes of talk time and featured a battery that took ten hours to recharge. Martin Cooper is the Creator of Mobile Phone.
