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Inventions: before or after?

Printing or glasses? The telephone or the light bulb? Find out which invention came first.

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Which came first?

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Timeline: Inventions

Show all the dates (careful, it gives away the answers!)
  1. around 3300 BC Writing The first written signs are pressed into clay tablets in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq).
  2. around 105 Paper In China, Cai Lun makes paper from bark, hemp and rags.
  3. around 1285 Glasses The first glasses to help people see better appear in Italy at the end of the Middle Ages.
  4. around 1450 The printing press Gutenberg prints books with metal letters that can be moved and reused.
  5. 1609 The telescope Galileo points his telescope at the sky and discovers mountains on the Moon.
  6. 1769 The steam engine James Watt improves the steam engine, which will soon power trains.
  7. around 1826 Photography Nicéphore Niépce takes the very first photo: the view from his window, after hours of exposure.
  8. 1876 The telephone Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, which carries the voice down a wire.
  9. 1879 The light bulb Thomas Edison develops a bulb that shines for a long time without burning out.
  10. 1903 The airplane The Wright brothers make the first powered airplane flight: 12 seconds in the air!

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