Well, a quick net search for "invention timeline" turned up:
http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/Timelines_of_Invention_and_Technology.htm http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm http://www.answers.com/topic/timeline-of-invention Also, interestingly:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp That one gives fictional inventions by publication date. So, for example, you can see that the Time Machine was invented in 1895 in H. G. Wells's book, "The Time Machine."
And then if you click on the listing for the Time Machine, it takes you to
this page , which sketches out what a Time Machine is, has a descriptive quote from the work, and sometimes, if there's a real-world analog that's been invented since the publication date (as there have been with many of Jules Verne's fictional inventions), it tells you a little bit about that.
