early modern, modern, contemporary

  • Period: 1199 to

    early modern

  • 1200

    block printing

    it was used through east asia and it is used for printing words or patterns
  • 1450

    printing press

    the printing press was used by applying pressure to an inked surface resting on a print medium
  • Period: to

    modern

  • photographs

    an image create by light. the first ever photo was took in 1826-1827
  • telegraph invention

    it made long distance communication easier
  • silent movies

    it was a novelty until around 1900 when they became easily produced
  • first computers

    Charles Babbage came up with the concept of a computor and had made one in the early 19th century
  • radio

    Guglielmo Marconi proved the possibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy
  • telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell created the Bell telephone and his first words were "Watson, come here, i want you"
  • first wireless communication

    Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open sea, from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point
  • recording to tape

    Alexander Graham Bells audio tape recorder was a non-magnetic, non-electric version
  • movies with sound

    The first film was The Jazz Singer which premiered on October 6 1927
  • color tv

    RCA TVs Get the Color for Money was the first color TV. It offered low quality at a high price
  • paperback books

    Paperback books provided quality writing but at a lesser cost
  • autonomous vehicles

    Norman Bel Geddes created the first car, which was an electric vehicle ran by radio-controlled electromagnetic fields
  • Period: to

    contemporary

  • cable tv

    Cable TV was made to enhance poor reception of over-the-air television signals in mountains
  • transistor radios

    Building on war-time research, group leader William Shockley made a device they called a transistor
  • color movies

    introduced the first color film and called it Kodachrome, Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr led the team to make it
  • VCR

    It became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder using two-inch wide tape
  • artificial intelligence

    John McCarthy who is a professor of computer science, the man who made the term "artificial intelligence" and went on for more than five decades defining the field
  • 1st satellite

    The Sputnik 1 was the first satellite placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome
  • laser printers

    Gary Starkweather invented the laser printer in 1969 at the Xerox research lab in Webster, New York, Which came to market in 1978
  • internet

    On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message from one computer to another. The Wide Web was later taking over in the 1990s
  • email

    Ray Tomlinson is the creator of email as part of a program for ARPANET in 1971
  • cellular phones

    On April 3 1973, Martin Cooper made the first mobile telephone call from a handheld cellular phone, he had called Dr. Joel S. Engel his rival
  • gps

    the Global Positioning System is a satellite-based navigation system
  • 3d printing

    Charles Hull is the inventor of stereolithography, the first 3D printing tech
  • dvd player

    The first DVD player was made by Sony Corporation in Japan partnered with Pacific Digital Company from the United States in 1997
  • mp3 player

    The first portable MP3 player was launched in 1997 by Saehan Information Systems
  • youtube

    YouTube, Web site for sharing videos. It was created February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim,
  • iphone

    On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone, a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, that can take picture and browse through the web
  • ipad

    The iPad was made by Apple Inc. It uses the iOS platform and it was first launch on April 3, 2010 by Steve Jobs