Timeline: Evolution of technoligy

1657

First springs were made to create clocks

1687

Isaac Newton laws of motion

Isaac Newton published the laws of motion in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687.

1710

Thomas Newcomen developed the first steam engine

1760

Industrial revolution begins

1784

Mechanical production, railroads and steam power were being produced

1826

First photograph taken

Photographed by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827. This is View from the Window at Le Gras and took 8 hours for exporsure

1838

Morse code was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse

1870

Mass production of electrical power

1875

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone

1903

Wright Brothers perform their first powered flight

1946

First computer Invented

The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946.

1950

the old black and white TV

These TV's were popular in the 1950s

1960

First satellite TV

Apr 12, 1961

First man sent into space

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargrian was the first man launched into space Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1)

May 5, 1961

First American sent into space

Alan Shepard was the first American launched into space on a Mercury rocket he named 'freedom 7'. America lost to Russia by a month

Jun 3, 1965

First American space walk performed

Gemini 4 mission pilot, Edward White, became the first American to space walk. They launched Titan II GLV, s/n 62-12559 and Gemini SC4 on the third of June 1964. James McDivitt was the commander. On this mission, James Mcdivitt claimed to have seen extra-terrestrial life while Ed was asleep.

Jan 27, 1967

Apollo 1 crew dies on the launch pad

this event is important as it changed technoligy and space exploration forever. The commander Gus Grissom (second american in space), pilot Roger Chaffee, senior pilot Ed white all died on the launch pad on the 27th of january. They were set for launch of the 21st of Feburary. NASA didn't send humans into space for nearly two years. Apollo 7 was the first Apollo manned mission

1969

Automated production begins

Electronics and computers are advancing

Jul 21, 1969

Apollo 11 landed on the moon

Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot) took the first steps on the moon and Michael Collins (command module pilot) orbited the moon. Over 100,000 engineers and scientist worked on this significan event

1970

First colour Tv

Dec 7, 1972

Harrisom Schmitt takes the famous photograph, The Blue Marble

The Blue Marble is one of the worlds most distrubuted photographs. This was taken on Apollo 17, the last mission to the moon. This is the first photo of the whole earth

1979

A.T.C. TV's were invented (Argentina TV Color)

Apr 12, 1981

Space Shuttler Columbia launched

Launched for the first time on STS-1. John Young was the commander and the pilot was Robert L. Crippen

1997

First high definition TV was invented

Sep 4, 1998

Google was founded

Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The site was named after a googol number

2000

First Digital Terrestrial Television

2000

Asimo is created

Asimo is a humanoid robot created by honda

Period: 2000 to 2017

We are in the era of artificial intellegence

Oct 31, 2000

First mission to the international space station

Expedition 1 launched from a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:53 a.m with William Shepherd (commander), Yuri Gidzenko (Flight Engineer 1), Sergei K. Krikalev (Flight Engineer 2)

Jun 10, 2003