History of Science and Technology
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Era Year Title Person
- -10,000 - 999
-2,500,000- Stone tools used
Hominid Tools -
Stone Tool Technology -
-1,000,000fire
-500,000Hearth is used for fire
-30,000numbers recorded on bones
-20,000bow and arrow
-10,000- Bread is made
The story behind a loaf of bread -
The Food Timeline -
-10,000- Agriculture is developed
Agricultural Revolution -
-8,000Linen is woven from flax
-8,000- Tokens used to count
Tokens: the origin of mathematics -
-7,000pottery
-6,000- wheel
wheel -
-5,000- astronomical observation
Ancient Alignments - [Scientific American]
-5,000decimal numbers used in Eygpt
-4,000- Copper is used
Sixty Centuries of Copper -
-3,000abacus invented
-3,000- Candles
History of Candle Making -
History of Candles -
The History of Candles -
-2,600+ Dye used

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