It was about 4 billion years ago, during the formation of earth,<br> that the moltan liquids and gasses cooled forming the first rocks on earth.
It was about 4 billion years ago, during the formation of earth,<br> that the moltan liquids and gasses cooled forming the first rocks on earth.
Fungi originally evolved as an aquatic life form.<br> The oldest sporocarp (or mushroom cap) fossil is 400 million years old.
one of the oldest life forms on earth, <br> snail shell fossils have been found dating back 359 million years.
The first plants arrived on land about 430 million years ago. <br> Over the next 80 million years plant stems hardend into wood for greater protection.
the first trees were lycopods. it was around 245 million <br> years ago that confer trees took over the lanscape,<br> bearing needles, and pinecone like seeds.
The first fossils of Dermaptera, the order to which the modern earwig belongs,<br> date back 208 million years. The earwig's ancestors were much larger, <br> and had more body sections than the modern earwig.
It was during the time of the dinosaurs that the first flowering plants evolved.
Evidencen strongly suggests that birds first evolved from <br> certain breeds of dinosaurs. The first feathered life form,<br> was the Archaeopteryx, A bird like dinosaur that lived <br> during the Jerassic period.
Chalk is a naturally forming mineral, so it has probably <br> existed on earth for billoins of years. Chalk is <br>formed deep in the ocean, and it takes around 90<br> million years to reach the state we see today.
It was 66 million years ago that gymnosperma <br> trees took root. This includes birch trees, plam <br> trees, hollie and oak trees which bear acorns.
Tools used to clean teeth are amonf the oldest used by man. <br> Eary toothbrushes were sticks, frayed at the end.
Ancient Indians were the first to use the pen. <br> The first pens were made of bird feathers.
It wasn't until the the first century AD that scrolls were replaced <br> by early books. Called a Codex, these books were hand scribed.
It is hard to say when the first screws were used for certain, but the <br> first wooden screw and bolt system is attributed to the greeks.
The earliest documentaion of paper being for toilet purposes <br> appeared in ancient china in 589 AD.
Sugars have occured naturally since the dawn of life. But it was the chinese <br> who first refined sugar into the granulated substance we use today.
Its true origin is undocumented, but it is legand that coffee was <br> discovered by a Eithiopian goatherder named Kaldi.
Different forms of fork-like devices has been used across europe at different times. <br> It wasn't untill 900 AD, however, that forks became commonly used for dining.
The version of tennis we know it today was first played around 1500 AD. <br> Back then, the ball was made of leather and stuffed with wool.
Different forms of condom-like devices made of different materials have <br> been used throught history to prevent pregnacy. The first time<br> condoms were used to prevent disease was in 1550, to prevent the<br> spread of syphilis.
The first printed newspaper was distributed in Strasbourg, germamny in 1605.
In the 1690s the Chinese mixed together a concoction of pickled fish <br> and spices and called it ke-tsiap.
Cotton candy was first recorded around Mid-18th Century. <br> At that time, spun sugar was an expensive, labor-intensive <br> endeavor and was not generally available to the average person.
twizzlers were invented by the Young and Smylie company in 1845.
Tin was first replaced by aluminium starting in 1910, when the first aluminium <br> foil rolling plant was opened in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson, an employee of Johnson & Johnson, <br> for his wife Josephine Dickson, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking.
Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern day flying disc in 1938 <br> when he and his future wife Lucile were offered 25ยข for a cake pan that they were <br> tossing back and forth to each other on the beach.
In 1941, researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab found a way to make foamed polystyrene.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the first form of natural plastic during the Renaissance period. <br> Plastic bottles were first used commercially in 1947, but remained relatively expensive <br> until the early 1960s when high-density polyethylene was introduced.
IN 2007 apple released their first iphone. The iphone is now in it's 4th iteration.

 
  B = 1 Billion Years | M = 1 Million Years