A broad overview, and kid-friendly, there is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314442-robert-crowther-s-pop-up-house-of-inventions https://www.goodreads.com

A broad overview, and kid-friendly, there is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314442-robert-crowther-s-pop-up-house-of-inventions https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314442-robert-crowther-... which is just what it says on the cover --- a tour through a house showing when things were invented. A lot more focused there is: https://goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectionists https://goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectionists (but it's a rather dry text and quite periodic and focused on specific technologies) Perhaps: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48815394-1-000-inventions-and-discoveries https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48815394-1-000-invention... There's a site which has come up here a couple of times along these lines which I'm not finding, but Britannica has: https://www.britannica.com/story/history-of-technology-timeline https://www.britannica.com/story/history-of-technology-timel...