World History/Technology
Prehistoric Technology
[edit | edit source]- Hunting
- Agriculture
- Domestication
- Fire
- Cooking
- Architecture
- The Wheel
- Stone work
- Bronze work
- Iron work
- Art
- Clothes
- Simple roads and trails
Ancient Era
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- Simple Machines
- Wheeled Vehicles
- Astronomy
- Aqueducts
- Writing
- Laws
- Lathes
- Water Mills
- Crop Rotation
- Magnetic Compass
- Arithmetic
- Trigonometry
- Papyrus and Paper
- Portions of Algebra
- Portions of Calculus
- Bookkeeping
- Novelty Automata
- Aeolipile
- Antikythera mechanism
- Paved roads
- Medical Isolation
Medieval Era
[edit | edit source]- Algebra
- Calculus
- Printing Press
- Pinhole camera
- Silk
- Inoculation
- Quarantine
Industrial Revolution
[edit | edit source]- Machine Tools
- Practical Photography
- Practical Steam Engines
- Steam locomotives
- Difference engine
- Steamboats
- Telegraphs
- Hot Air Balloon flight
Second Industrial Revolution and Machine Age
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- Mass production of steel
- Practical electrical machines
- Telephones
- Fax machine
- Radio
- Bicycles
- Automobiles
- Airplanes
- Early Practical Digital Computers
- Practical Film & Movie Theaters
1930's-1955
[edit | edit source]- Practical Radar
- Practical Jet Aircraft
- Practical Television broadcasting
- Atomic Bombs
- Atomic Power
- General purpose programmable digital computers
- Foundational concepts of Machine Intelligence
- Supersonic manned aircraft
- Operational Cruise Missiles
- Long Range Ballistic Missiles
1955-1970
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- Artificial satellites
- Human Spaceflight
- Practical Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
- Early Computer Networks
- Green Revolution in Agriculture
- Point-contact transistors
- Integrated circuits
- Early Video Games
- Practical Industrial Robots
1970-Present Day
[edit | edit source]- Popular Personal Computers
- Handheld and wearable computers
- Cellular Telephones
- Internet protocol suite
- Modular Space Stations
- Practical Digital Cameras