* 1709: Thomas Savery invents the first steam engine.
* 1714: Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the Fahrenheit scale.
* 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
* 1742: Anders Celsius develops the Celsius scale.
* 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod.
* 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
* 1769: Richard Arkwright invents the water frame.
* 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
* 1784: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
* 1785: James Watt invents the double-acting steam engine.
1800s
* 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile.
* 1804: Richard Trevithick builds the first steam locomotive.
* 1807: Robert Fulton launches the first commercially successful steamboat.
* 1820: Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner discovers the periodic law.
* 1826: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce takes the first photograph.
* 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
* 1832: Samuel Morse invents the Morse code.
* 1844: Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber.
* 1852: Elisha Otis invents the elevator.
* 1854: John Tyndall discovers the greenhouse effect.
1900s
* 1903: The Wright brothers make the first powered, controlled, and sustained airplane flight.
* 1905: Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity.
* 1908: Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile.
* 1913: Niels Bohr develops the Bohr model of the atom.
* 1915: Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.
* 1927: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo transatlantic flight.
* 1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
* 1937: Enrico Fermi achieves nuclear fission.
* 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry develop the first electronic digital computer.
* 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick discover the structure of DNA.
2000s
* 2001: The Human Genome Project is completed.
* 2005: YouTube is founded.
* 2006: Twitter is founded.
* 2007: The iPhone is released.
* 2010: The iPad is released.
* 2012: Google Glass is released.
* 2015: The Apple Watch is released.
* 2016: Pokémon Go is released.
* 2017: The Tesla Model 3 is released.
* 2018: The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket makes its first test flight.
2100s
* 21xx: The first humans land on Mars.
* 21xx: Artificial general intelligence is achieved.
* 21xx: The first self-aware machines are created.
* 21xx: The singularity occurs.