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)
The roots of the machine go back to at least the fifth century B.C. in China. In its most primitive form, it consisted of a pivoted beam with a sling at one end and ropes at the other. A stone would be placed in the sling and a team of men would haul the ropes, swinging the beam up into the air”1.
Our society takes things for granted that the ancient civilizations originally invented. In southwestern Asia around 3500 B.C. the first River Valley Civilizations began. These early civilizations invented many things. The early River Valley Civilizations of Mesopotamia made key contributions to future societies. Two contributions from the Mesopotamian Civilization were the invention of cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code.
The Norse “Metallic Ages,” so called because they date the time periods when the Norse people are recorded to have been working with metals such as copper, bronze, and iron. This Age also includes the Migration Period (the Age of Heroes), because it happened during the time of the Germanic Iron Age when there were great southerly migrations of the Nordic people.
Hart-Davis, Adam. "BBC - History - Ancient History in Depth: Discovering Roman Technology." BBC - Homepage. 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. .
The Upper Paleolithic Era occurred about 50,000 years ago and lasted nearly one-tenth of the more widely known Stone Age Era(Guisepi). During this time, Homo Sapiens were leaving the Middle Paleolithic Era, where advancements such as; points, arrows, darts, as well as other projectile tools originated, for the Upper Paleolithic Era. It is important to point out that during the Middle Paleolithic Era, the Homo Sapiens made large advancements in, “ the application of ‘prepared core technique.’” In this process, “a core was carefully flaked on one side so that for a flake of predetermined size and shape could be produced in a single blow(Middle)” By using this technique they gained knowledge of how to cre...
Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Because it is so common, iron has been used by human society for thousands of years. Iron was known and used for weapons in prehistoric ages, the earliest example still in existence; a group of rusty iron beads found in Egypt, dates from about 4000BC. This period in history was given the name Iron Age because it was the time when people found ways to get iron and to use it for building tools and weapons.
Despite not having an established society or economy, man in the Paleolithic Age had increasing technology. Their weapons and tools were made of wood and stone, and they had manifested the ability to control fire. The Paleolithic Age also berthed language and thus established the first historical backgrounds of modern man. Paleolithic art gives the background for the culture of the time. Depicting a society classed only by sex: Men hunted, made weaponry and tools, and fought other nomadic bands; Women gathered, made clothing, and bore children.
Leakey at Olduvai Gorge dating back to about two million years ago. They originally thought that these tools were made by the Australopithecus, but later determined that they were made by the Homo Habilis . The first tools found were classified as lower paleolithic tools. These tools belong to the Oldowan tool tradition. These tools which were opportunist in nature were characterized by an all-purpose generalized chopping tool. These were produced by removing a few flakes from a stone either by using another stone as a hammer or by striking a pebble against a large rock. Manufacturing tools this way is called the percussion method. Many of these tools were made out of quartz or lava; which were not the most common st...
What we know about the people before written records is limited to what artifacts and artwork we find. Pre History man used crude tools made of primarily stone. During the Upper Paleolithic era, beginning about 40,000 B.C., people refined these tools by using polished stone. New tools like fishhooks and sewing needles were made out of bone and wood during this time.
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Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929) founded IBM ( as the Tabulating Machine Company ) in 1896. The company renames known as IBM in 1924. In 1906 Lee D. Forest in America developed the electronic tube (an electronic value). Before this it would have been impossible to make digital electronic computers. In 1919 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan published the first flip-flop circuit design.
Mesopotamia ,now modern day Iraq, is known as the “cradle of civilization” and was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Fertile Crescent. Mesopotamia was a very rich and very successful civilization; because of its convenient placement it was a very fruitful area having many people and excessive amounts of crops which meant lots of work. With all of these people came some amazing ideas and with ideas came reality. From this ancient civilization came some of the most revolutionary and life changing inventions such as writing, medicine, math and most importantly the wheel. All of these inventions have made an amazing impact on the world we live in now but the most revolutionary invention was the wheel.This invention was by far one of the most important inventions of its time and passes the other inventions such as, math, writing, medicine and other inventions because this made not only work less difficult but life as well ,it Increased supplies and containers, helped explore new lands, made trading with farther places and obtaining more goods easier, fewer men needed for heavy work, etc, while the other invent...
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Technology Then to Now Throughout time, machines, no matter how simple or complex, have played a vital role in the development of civilization into the future. In other words, machines have played a part in helping our culture develop into what it has become today. This dates back to the beginning of time when an early man used a stick and a fulcrum (rock) to make a simple lever. Technology:
Ancient India's development in chemistry was not confined at an abstract level like physics, but found development in a variety of practical activities. In any early civilization, metallurgy has remained an activity central to all civilizations from the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, to all other civilizations that followed. It is believed that the basic idea of smelting reached ancient India from Mesopotamia and the Near East. Coinage dating from the 8th Century B.C.