Ancient history

What did men invent?

Here is a list of inventions attributed to men throughout history:

- The wheel (Mesopotamia, 3500 BC)

- The plow (Mesopotamia, 3000 BC)

- The sailboat (Egypt, 3000 BC)

- The calendar (Mesopotamia, 3000 BC)

- The alphabet (Phoenicia, 1500 BC)

- The printing press (Johannes Gutenberg, 1440)

- The telescope (Hans Lippershey, 1608)

- The microscope (Zacharias Janssen, 1590)

- The steam engine (Thomas Savery, 1698)

- The electric battery (Alessandro Volta, 1800)

- The telephone (Alexander Graham Bell, 1876)

- The light bulb (Thomas Edison, 1879)

- The internal combustion engine (Nikolaus Otto, 1876)

- The airplane (Wright brothers, 1903)

- The computer (Charles Babbage, 1822)

- The internet (Tim Berners-Lee, 1989)

- The smartphone (Apple, 2007)