Timeline of Ceramics

Timeline of Selected Ceramic and Glass Developments

Year Development

24,000 B.C. Ceramic figurines used for ceremonial purposes

14,000 B.C. First tiles made in Mesopotamia and India

9000-10,000 B.C. Pottery making begins

5000-8000 B.C. Glazes discovered in Egypt

1500 B.C. Glass objects first made

1550 A.D. Synthetic refractories (temperature resistant) for furnaces
used to make steel, glass, ceramics, cement

Mid 1800’s Porcelain electrical insulation
Incandescent light bulb

1920’s High-strength quartz-enriched porcelain for insulators
Alumina spark plugs
Glass windows for automobiles

1940’s Capacitors and magnetic ferrites

1960’s Alumina insulators for voltages over 220 kV
Application of carbides and nitrides

1970’s Introduction of high-performance cellular ceramic
substrates for catalytic converters and particulate filters for
diesel engines

1980’s High temperature superconductors

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