Time Line of Technological History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1600	Toffler's First Wave: The Agriculture Age	Worked at home/ on the farm.
01/01/1700	Toffler's Second Wave: Industrial Age	Nuclear Families; worked in factories;
01/01/1900	Technology 1900-1910	Inventions of the Modern escalator, first radio receiver, polygraph machine, first gas motored airplane, helicopter and instant coffee maker.
01/01/1911	Technology 1911-1920	Inventions of the first automobile electrical ignition system, motorized movies cameras, radio tuners, superheterodyne radio circuit, pop-up toaster.
01/01/1921	Technology 1921-1930	Inventions of the robot, traffic signal, television, penicillin, car radio.
01/01/1931	Technology 1931-1940	Inventions of the jet engine, electron microscope, Polaroid photography, radio telescope, tape recorder, voice recognition machine, photocopier.
01/01/1941	Technology 1941-1950	Invention of the color television, first electronic digital computer, kidney dialysis machine, microwave oven, first mobile phone, atomic bomb,
01/01/1951	Technology 1951-1960	Invention of the video tape recorder, oral contraceptive, computer hard disk, computer modem, internal pacemaker, microchip
01/01/1960	Toffler's Third Wave: The Information Age	Two family income households
01/01/1961	Technology 1961-1970	Invention of the audio cassette, first computer video game, video disk, copmact disk, handheld calculator, computer mouse, first internet (arpanet), artificial heart, ATM.
01/01/1971	Technology 1971-1980	Invention of the floppy disk, VCR, word processor, ethernet, laser and ink jet printer, MRI, Cell phones.
01/01/1981	Technology 1981-1990	Invention of the soft bifocal contact, CD-ROM, disposable camera, windows program, Apple Macintosh, HD television.
01/01/1990	Fourth Wave: The Communication Age	Increased collaboration and communication via internet
01/01/2000	Technology 1991-2000	Invention of the world wide web, digital answering machine, DVD's, pentium processor, Java.
01/01/2001	Technology 2001-2010	Inventions of the iPod, birth control patch, hybrid car, youtube, myspace, facebook and other social networks.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1600 to 12/31/2010	Strand 1: The three waves of Toffler's Theory and the introduction of the fourth wave.	The three waves of Toffler's Theory and the introduction of the fourth wave.
01/01/1900 to 12/31/2010	Strand 6: Political
01/01/1900 to 12/31/2010	Strand 5: Society & Culture
01/01/1900 to 12/31/2010	Strand 4:Education
01/01/1900 to 12/31/2010	Strand 3: Work
01/01/1900 to 12/31/2010	Strand 2: Technology