Is That A Big Number?

If Time since earliest wheeled vehicles (4,000 y) was a standard unit ...

Time since the birth of Hero of Alexandria (2,014 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since start of building of Great Zimbabwe (1,000 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since the death of Shakespeare (406 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since the first iron steamship crossed the English Channel (202 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since the first passenger steam railway service (199 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since the publication of Volume 1 of Marx's Das Kapital (157 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since the birth of physicist Marie Curie (157 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since introduction of the first mass-produced helicopter (Sikorsky R-4) (80 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Lifespan of human being (80 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched (40 y)...more would be 1/100 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Time since first Tesla Model S launched (10 y)...more would be 1/400 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Lifespan of rat (2 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Period of Earth's orbit (1 y)...more would be 1/4000 of Time since earliest wheeled vehicles

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.