340 BC
Aristotle describes the use of diamond tipped drills in Greece.
1000s
Pliny describes a the use of diamond splinters in handles of iron to form an engraving tool in Italy.
Reports describe the use of a diamond engraving tool called jade cutter knife in China.
1400s
Crushed diamond powder used for polishing diamond.
1500s
Leonardo da Vinci records the use of diamond tools for glass cutting.
1600s
Report of the first diamond drilling tool.
1700s
Ramsden reports the first single diamond turning tool for application in metal working.
Discovery by Smith-Tennant that diamond is composed solely of carbon.
1800s
Diamond grinding wheels are being used by Pritchard in England to shape lenses.
France rants a patent for a diamond core drill for use in the french stone industry.
Use of diamond as a wire drawing die.
Diamond drills for dentistry are being introduced in the USA by Desau.
1900s
Wheel for glass grinding developed by Carl Zeiss Jena.
First description of grinding tungsten carbide with diamond.
First successful diamond synthesis by ASEA,Sweden.
Shockwave sintering of diamond reported.
Natural diamond used as heatspreaders for semiconductors
First large synthetic diamond crystals grown up to 0.25 cts in weight.
Polycrystalline diamond (PCD)launched commercially.
Growth of diamond crystals via low pressure CVD on non-diamond substrates announced in the Soviet Union
Sales by volume of synthetic diamond products exceeds natural diamond for the first time
2000s
Development of high quality single crystal CVD diamond for electronic applications
Polycrystalline CVD diamond dome used as tweeter in loudspeaker application.
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