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Paper Money: ~960 CE (Song Dynasty, China)
Mechanical Clock: ~1300 CE (Europe)
Eyeglasses: ~1280 CE (Italy)
Compass: ~11th Century CE (China, for navigation)
Gunpowder Weapons: ~13th Century CE (China, e.g., hand cannons)
Movable Type Printing: ~1040 CE (China, Bi Sheng)
Windmills: ~12th Century CE (Persia, widespread in Europe by 1300 CE)
Firearms: ~15th Century CE (matchlock guns in Europe)
Telescope: 1608 CE (Netherlands, Hans Lippershey)
Microscope: ~1590 CE (Netherlands, Zacharias Janssen)
Barometer: 1643 CE (Italy, Evangelista Torricelli)
Steam Engine: ~1712 CE (England, Thomas Newcomen)
Hot Air Balloon: 1783 CE (France, Montgolfier brothers)
Electric Battery: 1800 CE (Italy, Alessandro Volta)
Photography: ~1826 CE (France, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)
Railways: ~1825 CE (England, Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Telegraph: ~1837 CE (England/USA, Morse and Wheatstone)
Dynamite: ~1867 CE (Sweden, Alfred Nobel)
Telephone: ~1876 CE (USA, Alexander Graham Bell)
Light Bulb: ~1879 CE (USA, Thomas Edison)