From this wonderful page:
http://www.krysstal.com/inventions_01.html
I've tried to extract mostly civiliation-abstraction-level inventions, with a few bonus ones thrown in for humour:
Before 100,000 BC
Stone Tools, Fire, Cloth Buildings, Cutting Tools
99,999 BC
Hunting: Spear/Bow&Arrow
Art (Cave Paintings)
Cooking Pits
Counting
Lamps
Dog domestication
Dugouts
9999 BC
Settlements, Walls, Terraced Roofs, Grainary
Copper, Harpoon, Pottery, Weaving, Yoke, Smelting, Casting
Sheeps, Goats, Pig, Cattle, Chicken, Donkey, Cat
Wheat/Pea/Olives/Rice/Millet/Banana/Sugar Cane/Sesame/Barley/Coffee/Fig
Funary Objects
5999 BC
Wine, Ox Plough, Scales, Balance, Metalwork, Bridges, Concrete, Cosmetics, Fragrances
Monuments, Musical Instruments
City State, Mathematics
Chili/Avacado/Apple
Domesticated Horse
3999 BC
Popcorn (3650 BC)
The Wheel (3500 BC)
Woodworking (3500 BC)
Corns, Beans, Squash, Turkey, Potatoe (3500 BC)
Dom. Llama (3500 BC)
Sailing (3500 BC)
Seals and Writing (3300 BC)
Silk (3200 BC)
Earth/Stone Dams (3200 BC)
Drainage (3100 BC)
Clocks (Sundial 3000 BC, Water 3500 BC)
Bricks (3000 BC)
Glass (3000 BC)
Candles (3000 BC)
Bronze (3000 BC)
Standard Weights (3000 BC)
Oil Palm/Yams (3000 BC)
Pottery Wheel (3000 BC)
Cotton (3000 BC)
Reed Boats (3000 BC)
Coca (3000 BC)
2999 BC
City Planning (2900 (zoning) BC 2500 (grid) BC)
Soap (2800 BC)
Sickle (2800 BC)
Rope (2600 BC)
Mummification (2600 BC)
Papyrus (2500 BC)
Ink (2500 BC)
Dikes (2500 BC)
Camel (2500 BC)
Arch (2500 BC and 600 BC)
Library (2500 BC)
Schools (2500 BC)
Irrigation, Canals (2400 BC)
Judicial Code (2400 BC)
Standing Armies (2340 BC)
Map Making (2300 BC)
Beer (2100 BC)
Sanitation (2000 BC)
Paved Roads (2000 BC)
Locks (2000 BC)
Medical Perscription (2000 BC)
Obelisk (2000 BC)
1999 BC
Positional Notation (1800 BC)
Use of Iron (1800 BC)
Dyes (1800 BC)
Formal Nedicine (1750 BC)
Alphabet (1700 BC)
Chocolate & Rubber (1600 BC)
Oar (1500 BC, maybe 2700 BC China)
Kiln Fired Bricks (1500 BC)
Glazed Pottery (1500 BC)
Water Tap (1500 BC)
Chariot (1400 BC)
Metal Swords (1200 BC)
Keel (1200 BC)
Stellar Navigation (1200 BC)
999 BC
Peanut (900 BC)
Cavalry (900 BC)
Iron Saws/Scissors (750 BC)
Galley Warship (700 BC)
Musical Notation (700 BC)
Aquaduct (700 BC)
Windmill (650 BC)
Coinage (640 BC)
Lighthouse (600 BC)
Screw (550 BC)
Crossbow (500 BC)
Highways (500 BC)
Passport (500 BC)
Democracy (478 BC)
Archery (440 BC) ???
Catapult (400 BC)
Chronology (312 BC) (years not by ruler)
Metal Bit (300 BC)
Lever (250 BC)
Archimedes Screw (250 BC)
Piston (250 BC)
Horseshoe (200 BC)
Horse Collar (200 BC)
Book (180 BC)
Screw Press (150 BC)
Glass Blowing (100 BC)
Public Baths (100 BC)
Parchment (100 BC)
Hinged Rudder (100 BC)
Clockwork Mechanisms (82 BC)
Gear (80 BC)
WSteam Baths (60 BC)
Calendar (45 BC)
Coal Mine (40 BC)
Insecticides (40 BC)
Domes (30 BC)
Road Map (30 BC)
Surgical Instruments (30 BC)
Fish Farming (15 BC)
Seed Drill (10 BC, 1701 AD)
1 AD
Magnetic Compass (10 AD)
Detergent (10 AD)
Watermill Powered Pounder (20 AD)
Iron Reaper (50 AD)
Heavy Plough (100 AD)
Map Grids (100 AD)
Ballbearing (100 AD)
Pontoon Bridge (100 AD)
Paper (105 AD)
Wheelbarrow (118 AD)
Apartment Block (128 AD)
Modern Numbers (150 AD)
Block Printing (150 AD)
Abacus (190 AD)
Porcelain (190 AD)
Saddle and Stirrup (200 AD)
Longitude/Latitude (265 AD)
Algebra (275 AD)
Oil/Gas Lighting (300 AD)
Tea (350 AD)
Lic. Doctors (361 AD)
Paddle Wheel Ships (370 AD)
Astrolab (400 AD)
Hydrometer (400 AD)
Butter (400 AD)
Whisky (450 AD)
Brandy (500 AD)
Suspension Bridge (500 AD)
Carpets (550 AD)
Matches (577 AD)
Postal Service (600 AD)
Drill Bits (600 AD)
Constitution (604 AD)
Chess (621 AD)
Greek Fire (673 AD)
Blast Fernace (700 AD)
Pictoral Books (765 AD)
Distillation (800 AD)
Tin Glazed Pottery (810 AD)
Canal Lock (823 AD)
Modern Arithmatic & Algebra (825 AD)
Rotary Grindstone (823 AD)
Gunpowder (850 AD)
Printed Books (868 AD)
Lens (900 AD)
Plaster (900 AD)
Draft Harness (910 AD)
Golf (935 AD)
Cauterization (1000 AD)
Toothpaste (1000 AD)
Flamethrower (1000 AD)
Gernades (1000 AD)
Cheque (1000 AD)
Pizza (1000 AD)
1001 AD
Moveable Type (1041 AD)
Explosive Artillery (1050 AD)
Tidal Mill (1078 AD)
Buoys (1100 AD)
Paper Money (1100 AD)
Watermill Hammer Forge (1100 AD)
Teargas (1161 AD)
Rocket (1180 AD)
Kickwheel (1200 AD)
Sawmill (1204 AD)
Crankshaft (1206 AD)
Quill (1250 AD)
Spectacles (1275 AD)
Land Mines (1277 AD)
Spinning Wheel (1280 AD)
Salting Herring (1283 AD)
Cannon, Guns (1304 AD)
Artificial Insemination (1320 AD)
Steel Crossbow (1325 AD)
Longbow (1300 AD)
Shipboard Guns (1340 AD)
Pendulum Clock (1350 AD)
Hand Guns (1400 AD)
Hydroponics (1400 AD)
Glass Bottles (1400 AD)
Screw Jack (1400 AD)
Binnacle (1400 AD)
Drift Net (1416 AD)
Spring Clock (1430 AD)
Harquebus (1450 AD, early musket)
Siege Gun (1453 AD)
Sheep Sheers (1500 AD)
Plus and Minus (1514 AD)
Wheel Lock (1520 AD)
Pistol (1540 AD)
Equals Sign (1557 AD)
Lead Pensil (1564 AD)
Musket (1565 AD)
Mercator Projection (1569 AD)
Knitting Machine (1589 AD)
Microscope (1590 AD)
Thermometer (1592 AD)
Flush Toilet (1597 AD)
1601
To be continued
I've found reading through this to be reasonably educational. Note that some of the above inventions happen well before it became practical or widespread.
If we want to add new technologies, we should check to see that they where actually invented around the right time.
http://www.krysstal.com/inventions_01.html
I've tried to extract mostly civiliation-abstraction-level inventions, with a few bonus ones thrown in for humour:
Before 100,000 BC
Stone Tools, Fire, Cloth Buildings, Cutting Tools
99,999 BC
Hunting: Spear/Bow&Arrow
Art (Cave Paintings)
Cooking Pits
Counting
Lamps
Dog domestication
Dugouts
9999 BC
Settlements, Walls, Terraced Roofs, Grainary
Copper, Harpoon, Pottery, Weaving, Yoke, Smelting, Casting
Sheeps, Goats, Pig, Cattle, Chicken, Donkey, Cat
Wheat/Pea/Olives/Rice/Millet/Banana/Sugar Cane/Sesame/Barley/Coffee/Fig
Funary Objects
5999 BC
Wine, Ox Plough, Scales, Balance, Metalwork, Bridges, Concrete, Cosmetics, Fragrances
Monuments, Musical Instruments
City State, Mathematics
Chili/Avacado/Apple
Domesticated Horse
3999 BC
Popcorn (3650 BC)
The Wheel (3500 BC)
Woodworking (3500 BC)
Corns, Beans, Squash, Turkey, Potatoe (3500 BC)
Dom. Llama (3500 BC)
Sailing (3500 BC)
Seals and Writing (3300 BC)
Silk (3200 BC)
Earth/Stone Dams (3200 BC)
Drainage (3100 BC)
Clocks (Sundial 3000 BC, Water 3500 BC)
Bricks (3000 BC)
Glass (3000 BC)
Candles (3000 BC)
Bronze (3000 BC)
Standard Weights (3000 BC)
Oil Palm/Yams (3000 BC)
Pottery Wheel (3000 BC)
Cotton (3000 BC)
Reed Boats (3000 BC)
Coca (3000 BC)
2999 BC
City Planning (2900 (zoning) BC 2500 (grid) BC)
Soap (2800 BC)
Sickle (2800 BC)
Rope (2600 BC)
Mummification (2600 BC)
Papyrus (2500 BC)
Ink (2500 BC)
Dikes (2500 BC)
Camel (2500 BC)
Arch (2500 BC and 600 BC)
Library (2500 BC)
Schools (2500 BC)
Irrigation, Canals (2400 BC)
Judicial Code (2400 BC)
Standing Armies (2340 BC)
Map Making (2300 BC)
Beer (2100 BC)
Sanitation (2000 BC)
Paved Roads (2000 BC)
Locks (2000 BC)
Medical Perscription (2000 BC)
Obelisk (2000 BC)
1999 BC
Positional Notation (1800 BC)
Use of Iron (1800 BC)
Dyes (1800 BC)
Formal Nedicine (1750 BC)
Alphabet (1700 BC)
Chocolate & Rubber (1600 BC)
Oar (1500 BC, maybe 2700 BC China)
Kiln Fired Bricks (1500 BC)
Glazed Pottery (1500 BC)
Water Tap (1500 BC)
Chariot (1400 BC)
Metal Swords (1200 BC)
Keel (1200 BC)
Stellar Navigation (1200 BC)
999 BC
Peanut (900 BC)
Cavalry (900 BC)
Iron Saws/Scissors (750 BC)
Galley Warship (700 BC)
Musical Notation (700 BC)
Aquaduct (700 BC)
Windmill (650 BC)
Coinage (640 BC)
Lighthouse (600 BC)
Screw (550 BC)
Crossbow (500 BC)
Highways (500 BC)
Passport (500 BC)
Democracy (478 BC)
Archery (440 BC) ???
Catapult (400 BC)
Chronology (312 BC) (years not by ruler)
Metal Bit (300 BC)
Lever (250 BC)
Archimedes Screw (250 BC)
Piston (250 BC)
Horseshoe (200 BC)
Horse Collar (200 BC)
Book (180 BC)
Screw Press (150 BC)
Glass Blowing (100 BC)
Public Baths (100 BC)
Parchment (100 BC)
Hinged Rudder (100 BC)
Clockwork Mechanisms (82 BC)
Gear (80 BC)
WSteam Baths (60 BC)
Calendar (45 BC)
Coal Mine (40 BC)
Insecticides (40 BC)
Domes (30 BC)
Road Map (30 BC)
Surgical Instruments (30 BC)
Fish Farming (15 BC)
Seed Drill (10 BC, 1701 AD)
1 AD
Magnetic Compass (10 AD)
Detergent (10 AD)
Watermill Powered Pounder (20 AD)
Iron Reaper (50 AD)
Heavy Plough (100 AD)
Map Grids (100 AD)
Ballbearing (100 AD)
Pontoon Bridge (100 AD)
Paper (105 AD)
Wheelbarrow (118 AD)
Apartment Block (128 AD)
Modern Numbers (150 AD)
Block Printing (150 AD)
Abacus (190 AD)
Porcelain (190 AD)
Saddle and Stirrup (200 AD)
Longitude/Latitude (265 AD)
Algebra (275 AD)
Oil/Gas Lighting (300 AD)
Tea (350 AD)
Lic. Doctors (361 AD)
Paddle Wheel Ships (370 AD)
Astrolab (400 AD)
Hydrometer (400 AD)
Butter (400 AD)
Whisky (450 AD)
Brandy (500 AD)
Suspension Bridge (500 AD)
Carpets (550 AD)
Matches (577 AD)
Postal Service (600 AD)
Drill Bits (600 AD)
Constitution (604 AD)
Chess (621 AD)
Greek Fire (673 AD)
Blast Fernace (700 AD)
Pictoral Books (765 AD)
Distillation (800 AD)
Tin Glazed Pottery (810 AD)
Canal Lock (823 AD)
Modern Arithmatic & Algebra (825 AD)
Rotary Grindstone (823 AD)
Gunpowder (850 AD)
Printed Books (868 AD)
Lens (900 AD)
Plaster (900 AD)
Draft Harness (910 AD)
Golf (935 AD)
Cauterization (1000 AD)
Toothpaste (1000 AD)
Flamethrower (1000 AD)
Gernades (1000 AD)
Cheque (1000 AD)
Pizza (1000 AD)
1001 AD
Moveable Type (1041 AD)
Explosive Artillery (1050 AD)
Tidal Mill (1078 AD)
Buoys (1100 AD)
Paper Money (1100 AD)
Watermill Hammer Forge (1100 AD)
Teargas (1161 AD)
Rocket (1180 AD)
Kickwheel (1200 AD)
Sawmill (1204 AD)
Crankshaft (1206 AD)
Quill (1250 AD)
Spectacles (1275 AD)
Land Mines (1277 AD)
Spinning Wheel (1280 AD)
Salting Herring (1283 AD)
Cannon, Guns (1304 AD)
Artificial Insemination (1320 AD)
Steel Crossbow (1325 AD)
Longbow (1300 AD)
Shipboard Guns (1340 AD)
Pendulum Clock (1350 AD)
Hand Guns (1400 AD)
Hydroponics (1400 AD)
Glass Bottles (1400 AD)
Screw Jack (1400 AD)
Binnacle (1400 AD)
Drift Net (1416 AD)
Spring Clock (1430 AD)
Harquebus (1450 AD, early musket)
Siege Gun (1453 AD)
Sheep Sheers (1500 AD)
Plus and Minus (1514 AD)
Wheel Lock (1520 AD)
Pistol (1540 AD)
Equals Sign (1557 AD)
Lead Pensil (1564 AD)
Musket (1565 AD)
Mercator Projection (1569 AD)
Knitting Machine (1589 AD)
Microscope (1590 AD)
Thermometer (1592 AD)
Flush Toilet (1597 AD)
1601
To be continued
I've found reading through this to be reasonably educational. Note that some of the above inventions happen well before it became practical or widespread.
If we want to add new technologies, we should check to see that they where actually invented around the right time.
