History of Science and Technology
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Era Year Title Person
- -10,000 - 999
-2,500,000+ Stone tools used
-1,000,000fire
-500,000Hearth is used for fire
-30,000numbers recorded on bones
-20,000bow and arrow
-10,000+ Bread is made
-10,000+ Agriculture is developed
-8,000Linen is woven from flax
-8,000+ Tokens used to count
-7,000pottery
-6,000+ wheel
-5,000+ astronomical observation
-5,000decimal numbers used in Eygpt
-4,000+ Copper is used
-3,000abacus invented
-3,000+ Candles
-2,600+ Dye used
-1,300+ Glassmaking known in Mesopotamia
-640+ Thales - bioThales of Miletus
-580+ Pythagoras - bioPythagoras
-499+ Anaxagoras - bioAnaxagoras
-460+ Democritus - bioDemocritus
-427+ Plato - bioPlato
-384+ Aristotle - bioAristotle
-365+ Euclid - bioEuclid
-310+ Aristarchus - bioAristarchus
-287+ Archimedes - bioArchimedes
-276+ Eratosthenes - bioEratosthenes
-150+ Hero - bioHero

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