Contemporary (2000+)

6 inventions

First used for pottery, not transportation, around 3500 BC. The spoked wheel appeared around 2000 BC...

Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, redefining mobile computing. IBM Simon was the first smartphone i...

The technology behind Bitcoin, whose creator remains anonymous. The genesis block was mined on Janua...

A gene-editing tool that lets scientists modify DNA precisely. Won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

Glass beads were made around 3500 BC. Glassblowing was invented around 50 BC in Syria. Venice domina...

Cuneiform was the first writing system, initially for accounting records. Egyptian hieroglyphics dev...