- 1690: Denis Papin experiments with an atmospheric steam engine.
- 1698: Thomas Savery develops a simple steam engine.
- 1709: Abraham Darby extracts coke from bituminous coal.
- 1712: Thomas Newcome develops the first practical atmospheric steam engine.
- 1769: James Watt develops an improved condenser for the steam engine.
- 1770s: First factories are powered by waterwheels.
- 1782: Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier develop the hot air balloon.
- 1794: Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin.
- 1800: Alessandro Volta develops the electric battery.
- 1820: Hans Oersted discovers electromagnetism.
- 1825: Stockton-Darlington railway opens.
- 1830s: Mechanical grain reapers are introduced by Cyrus McCormick and Obed Hussey.
- 1830s: Steamships make regular crossing of the Atlantic.
- 1832: Benoit Fourneyron develops the water turbine.
- 1833: John Lane develops the steel plow.
- 1837: W. Cooke and C. Wheatstone develop the first electric telegraph.
- 1838: John Ericsson develops the screw propeller.
- 1859: Crude oil is discovered in Pennsylvania.
- 1860: J.J.E. Lenoir develops the first internal combustion engine.
- 1866: Alfred E. Nobel invents dynamite.
- 1869: Suez Canal is completed.
- 1869: US Transcontinental railway is completed.
- 1870s: Phosphate fertilizer industry begins.
- 1874: George Eastman invents photographic film.
- 1876: N.A. Otto develops the four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
- 1877: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1879: Thomas Edison develops the carbon filament lightbulb.
- 1883: H.S. Maxim invents the machine gun.
- 1883: Carl Gustav de Laval develops the impulse steam turbine.
- 1885: Karl Benz build the first practical car.
- 1887: Heinrich Hertz generates an electromagnetic wave.
- 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the induction electrical motor.
- 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine.
- 1899: Guglielmo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the English Channel.
- 1901: Willis H. Carrier invents the first industrial air conditioning.
- 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first powered flight.
- 1908: Henry Ford produces the first Model T.
- 1913: Ford Motor Company introduces the moving production line.
- 1922: Japan launches the aircraft carrier Hosho.
- 1923: Vladimir Zworykin invents the electronic camera tube.
- 1923: Electrolux produces the first electronic refrigerators.
- 1935: General Electric Corp. introduces fluorescent lights.
- 1940: Igor Sikorsky invents the helicopter.
- 1942: Enrico Fermi makes the first controlled atomic chain reaction.
- 1942: The V-1 Rocket is developed by Werner von Braun.
- 1944: DDT is marketed.
- 1947: Bardeen, Brattan and Shockley invent the transistor.
- 1949: Introduction of the first commercial passenger jet, the DeHaviland Comet.
- 1950s: Commercial computers.
- 1950s: Stereo recordings.
- 1950s: Videotape.
- 1951: Hydrogen bomb detonated.
- 1951: First transmission of color TV pictures.
- 1953: Raytheon Corporation produces the microwave oven.
- 1954: The nuclear powered submarine Nautilus is launched.
- 1957: Sputnik is launched.
- 1958: Texas Instruments develops the first integrated circuit.
- 1961: First manned space flight.
- 1962: First transatlantic television transmission by satellite.
- 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
- 1969: Edward Hoff and Intel Corp. develop the microprocessor.
- 1971: Intel and Texas Instruments introduce the silicon chip.
- 1976: Voyager spacecraft land on Mars.
- 1982: Sony and Philips Corporations introduce the CD player.
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This chronology based on: Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History (Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 1994) pp. 259-267.
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