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Human Inventions in Chronological Order

Which came first; the wheel or the button?
Can you put these human inventions (displayed alphabetically on left) in chronological order?
Inventions and dates are taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica's list of 100 Greatest Inventions of All Time
Answers must correspond to yellow box
Quiz by kiwirage
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First submittedAugust 30, 2014
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Inventions
Air Conditioning
Ice Skates
Atomic Bomb
Argand Oil Lamp
Automobile
Pencil
Bicycle
Pendulum Clock
Button
Printing Press
Candle
Soap
Compact Disc (CD)
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Sunscreen
Eyeglasses
Wheel
Flush Toilet
Windmill
Date
Answer
c.3500 BC
Wheel
c.3000 BC
Candle
1000 BC
Ice Skates
c.700 BC
Button
600 BC
Soap
644
Windmill
c.1280
Eyeglasses
c.1450
Printing Press
1565
Pencil
c.1591
Flush Toilet
Date
Answer
1656
Pendulum Clock
1698
Steam Engine
1784
Oil Lamp
1793
Cotton Gin
1818
Bicycle
1889
Automobile
1902
Air Conditioning
1944
Sunscreen
1945
Atomic Bomb
1980
Compact Disc (CD)
Packerswin14
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Level 83
Aug 31, 2014
Excellent and interesting quiz! Time limit means it's tough to guess your way through it, well done!
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 7, 2015
Oil lamps were invented around 4500 BC... I kept going back to that with every answer thinking there was some kind of error..slowed me down a bit
kiwirage
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Level 63
Feb 7, 2015
Thanks for pointing that out. I've made a slight adjustment.
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