Agriculture & Food · Recorded milestone
Haber-Bosch fertiliser
Recorded year1913
Synthesising ammonia from air feeds roughly half the world's population today.
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Led to
- Synthetic fuelRecorded · 1925requires
- HydroponicsRecorded · 1929enables
- PolyethyleneRecorded · 1933requires
- NylonRecorded · 1935requires
- Green Revolution cropsRecorded · 1966enables
- Fertiliser made on the farmRecorded · 2023enables
- Green ammoniaRecorded · 2025enables
- Self-fertilising cerealsForecast · ~2038enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.