The History of Technology Throughout Time

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The history of technology begins two and a half million years ago with the stone age. Flint was split and sharpened to be used as a tool. Within a hundreds of thousands of years these stone tools became specialized for boring, scraping, cutting and sharp points. Five hundred thousand years ago in China, man discovers fire. The Neolithic period 8000BC of the Stone age brought about many new technologies. These technologies are pottery, textiles, bricks made in Jericho made of clay or mud and sun dried, the spinning spindle which brought about knitting. Around 6500BC, man discovers the kiln and more uses for fire. The loom is built in 6000BC along with weaving. In 4000BC, the first miners began mining copper in the Balkans and at this time the yoke and harness was invented, along with smelting and casting. In Sinai peninsula 3800BC, copper was being mined and was smelted. 3000BC brought forth quite few important inventions such as the wheel in Europe ,potter's wheel in Mesopotamia, plough along with draught animals in Egypt and Mesopotamia. 2800BC silk is woven in China and in 2500 BC cotton is grown and woven in Indus Valley and later in Peru.(N/A,N/a, p1) The Bronze age starts about 2700BC when bronze is discovered. 2400BC in Babylonia the first calculator the abacus is invented.(N/A,N/a, p1) The Iron age starts about 1200BC ends around 587Bc and in this period the use of iron was used to make tools and weapons.(N/A/N/A) 350BC is the start of mechanical gearing like the pulley, lever and screw developed by the Greeks and/or the Egyptians. 300BC the binary number system is invented by Pingala. 87BC in Rhodes the Antikythera Mechanism is invented to track stars movement. (N/A/N/A... ... middle of paper ... ... Jack Kilby produce the first silicon chip or integrated circuit, 1960 Theodore Harold Maiman invents the Laser, 1961 first man in space is Uri Gagarin and David Paul Gregg invents the Optical disc, 1963 Douglas Engelbart invents the Computer mouse, 1967 John Shepherd-Barron invents the Automatic Teller Machine, 1968 Ralph H. Baer invents the Video game console, Ted Nelson with Andries van Dam invent Hypertext, 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon and Ray Tomlinson invents E-mail, 1971 James Fergason invents the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Sharp Corporation invents the Pocket calculator and IBM with David Noble invents the Floppy Disk, 1973 David Boggs and Bob Metcalfe invents the Ethernet and Xerox PARC invents the Personal computer, 1983 Sony invents the Camcorder, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web, 2001 Digital satellite radio.(N/A,N/A)

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