A brief history of ceramics

• 23,000–25,000 BCE: Earliest use of human ceramics (for example, in figurines of humans and other animals made of pottery, discovered at Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic).    
• 14,000BCE: Ceramic tiles are being made in India and Mesopotamia.
• 18,000–14,000 BCE: Earliest use of pottery vessels (for example, in Jiangxi, China).
• 7500–6500BCE: First use of mud bricks.
• 6000 BCE: Earliest known kiln (Yarim Tepe site in modern Iraq)
• 5000–8000 BCE: First use of glazes. Nile Valley of Egypt. According to [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PAZR-A9Ra6EC]
• 3500–5000BCE: Earliest use of glass (according to Eric Le Bourhis in Glass: Mechanics and Technology).
• 3500–2500BCE: Invention of the potter's wheel.
• Mid-late 1900s: Development of effective glass and ceramic insulators for telegraphs and electric power distribution.
• 1940s: Development of ferrite magnets for such things as loudspeakers and electric motors.
• 1986: High-temperature superconductors discovered by Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller of IBM.