Print — Data storage
InventTable — PRINT ERA — Data storage
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Printing press | with movable metal type | 1450 AD | Johannes Gutenberg | Mainz, Germany (3) |
| Mercator projection map | for plotting navigation | 1535 AD | Geraedus Mercator | Netherlands |
| Graphite pencil | 1564 AD | Conrad von Gesner | Switzerland | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1582 AD | Pope Gregory XIII | Vatican City, Italy | |
| Calculus | 1680 AD | Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz | UK/Germany | |
| Binary language | computers | 1689 AD | Gottfried Leibniz | Germany |
| Rubber eraser | 1770 AD | Joseph Priestly | UK | |
| Mechanical calculator | analytic machine, later "computer" | 1821 AD | Charles Babbage | UK (7) |
| Primitive photograph | 1822 AD | Joseph Nicephore Niepce | France (36) | |
| Camera | 1826 AD | Joseph Nicephore Niepce | France (36) | |
| Negative for photography | 1835 AD | William Henry Talbot | UK |