Ngram

[Rostum]

Shamelessly stolen from Ben Aaronovitch's site link to googles statistical writing anachronism tool

https://books.google.com/ngrams

[Lady Ty]

That is a good time waster, keep putting in words like curmudgeon and precarious as well as phrases just to find when they were common.

[Rostum]

I was looking at inventions and when they were written about.  Tea bags, Vacuum cleaner, refridgeration as there is always a gap between an invention and it becoming generally available and the peak is a good indication its being pushed hard to a general market and the slope down from there is likely to indicate it getting affordable and generally accepted.

[JMack]

Well, that's a hoot.