Unit 1: It's History
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Unit 1: It's History
Technological Eras and Their Occupations
Technology Timeline
- 1,000,000 B.C. Stone Age Fire and the development of early stone tools.
- 12,000 B.C. Early oil lamps that burned fish and animal oil
- 3,500 B.C. Agricultural Age Writing (cuneiform and hieroglyphics)
- 3,000 B.C. Bronze Age Tools made from metal; development of the wheel
- 1,200 B.C. Iron Age Smelting of iron; development of the Greek alphabet
- 700 B.C. Irrigation and sewers in Rome
- 221 B.C. Construction of the Great Wall of China
- 144 B.C. First high-level aqueduct in Rome; use of cement
- 100 B.C. Water Wheels
- A.D. 500 Sailing ships that could travel with and against the wind
- A.D. 1024 Chinese use first paper currency
- A.D. 1200 Windmills
- A.D. 1281 Chinese use gunpowder in war against Mongols
- A.D. 1400-1600 Age of exploration
- A.D. 1450 Gutenberg invents movable type
- A.D. 1600 Magnetism discovered by William Gilbert
- A.D. 1610 Galileo's telescope
- A.D. 1628 William Harvey discovers circulation of the blood
- A.D. 1700 Newton's Laws
- A.D. 1712 Newcomen's steam engine
- A.D. 1724 Fahrenheit thermometer invented
- A.D. 1752 Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity
- A.D. 1760-1840 Industrial Age Industrial Revolution in Britain
- A.D. 1769 James Watt's steam engine
- A.D. 1770 Hargreave's spinning jenny patented
- A.D. 1784 Wrought-iron process by Henry Cort
- A.D. 1785 Cartwright's loom
- A.D. 1789 LaVoiser's theory of chemical combustion published
- A.D. 1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin
- A.D. 1804 Jacquard's loom
- A.D. 1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat
- A.D. 1822 First textile mill in United States, Rhode Island
- A.D. 1829 The steam locomotive
- A.D. 1835 Bessemer process for making steel
- A.D. 1843 Morse begins telegraph line between Baltimore, Md, and Washington, DC
- A.D. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
- A.D. 1885 First successful gasoline-driven car, by Carl Benz in Germany
- A.D. 1887 Daimler's internal combustion engine automobile
- A.D. 1888 First Kodak handheld camera
- A.D. 1893 Diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel
- A.D. 1901 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signals
- A.D. 1903 Wright brother's airplane
- A.D. 1905 Albert Einstein proposes his theory of relativity
- A.D. 1908 Model T Ford built using mass production
- A.D. 1909 Beginning of the age of plastics
- A.D. 1915 SONAR invented
- A.D. 1923 Automatic traffic light patented by Garrett A. Morgan
- A.D. 1924 First round-the-world flight; Kleenex tissues
- A.D. 1925 First successful experiments with hydroponics
- A.D. 1926 First television demonstration; pop-up toaster
- A.D. 1928 Penicillin invented by Alexander Fleming
- A.D. 1929 Electroencephalograph (EEG); foam rubber
- A.D. 1931 Empire State Building in New York City
- A.D. 1934 The electron microscope
- A.D. 1935 RADAR developed; nylon patented; B-17 bomber produced by Boeing
- A.D. 1938 The ball-point pen is patented
- A.D. 1939 First jet aircraft flies in Germany Interactive Jet Engine
- A.D. 1942 First color snapshots
- A.D. 1944 First automatic digital computer, the Mark 1
- A.D. 1945 ENIAC computer built using 18,000 vacuum tubes
- A.D. 1947 Microwave oven; first Honda motorcycle; development of the transistor at Bell Laboratories
- A.D. 1950 Power steering; start of regular color TV broadcasts; first credit card (Diner's Club)
- A.D. 1952 Salk polio vaccine; 3-D movies
- A.D. 1954 Nuclear-powered submarine "Nautilus"; photocell developed
- A.D. 1955 Nuclear-powered electricity generation; fiber optics
- A.D. 1956 First desktop computer (Burroughs E-101)
- A.D. 1957 Sputnik
- A.D. 1958 Information Age First U.S. Satellite
- A.D. 1959 Russia sends unmanned spacecraft to the moon (Luna2);Xerox copier
- A.D. 1960 Lasers; light-emitting diodes (LEDs); weather satellites
- A.D. 1964 China tests nuclear bomb; IBM word processors
- A.D. 1965 First space walk
- A.D. 1966 Electronic fuel injection; Russians make successful soft landing on the moon (Luna 9)
- A.D. 1969 American manned moon landing; first Concorde SST flight
- A.D. 1971 Microprocessor developed by Intel; Mariner 9 orbits Mars
- A.D. 1972 CAT scan; photography from satellites (Landsat); videodiscs
- A.D. 1973 Genetic engineering
- A.D. 1974 Toronto Communications Tower (tallest building in the world) opens
- A.D. 1976 Birth of the Apple computer; electronic cameras
- A.D. 1977 Trans-Alaska pipeline system completed
- A.D. 1979 Skylab, the orbiting space station, falls back to Earth
- A.D. 1980 Solar-powered aircraft
- A.D. 1981 First launch of reusable space vehicle (space shuttle Columbia)
- A.D. 1982 Artificial heart
- A.D. 1984 Compact disc player
- A.D. 1986 DNA fingerprinting
- A.D. 1990 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope deployed by space shuttle Discovery
- Beyond 2000 How will you design the future?
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