Most Important Advances in Human History

clipped from humanknowledge.net Most Important Advances Listed below are some of the most important contingent non-parochial revolutionary advances in human history Stone Tools 2.5 Mya Fire Control 1.4 Mya Language 100-50 Kya Watercraft 40 Kya Food Production 10.5 Kya Metallurgy 4000 BCE Horse Riding 4000 BCE Writing 3500 BCE Philosophy 600-335 BCE Mathematics 550-200 BCE Firearms 1300s Movable Type 1454 Heliocentrism 1543 Telescopy, Microscopy 1608 Calculus 1666 Mechanics 1687 Heat Engine 1712;1769 Electromagnetics 1831;1864 Wire Telecom 1844 Evolution 1859 Germ Theory 1862 Genetics 1866 Set Theory 1874 Radio Telecom 1895;1904 Powered flight 1903 Special Relativity 1905 General Relativity 1916 Quantum Theory 1927 Space flight 1929 Big Bang 1929 Incompleteness 1931 Fission 1938 Computing 1946;1948 Packet Networking 1961 Standard Model 1974 (?) String/M Theory 1984 Several important advances are nonetheless either derivative or not quite revolutionary. The train and automobile are derivative of the heat engine