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 s...
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