Periodization timeline

  • 1450 BCE

    printing press

    a machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.
  • 1200 BCE

    block printing

    block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Early Modern

  • Period: to

    Modern

  • photographs

    a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive.
  • telegraph

    a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
  • silent movies

    A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound.
  • First wireless communication

    The first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented the photophone.
  • radio

    the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages.
  • Movies with sound

  • paperback Books

    a book with a flexible paper binding.
  • cable tv

    a system in which television programs are transmitted to the sets of subscribers by cable rather than by a broadcast signal.
  • first computer

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
  • Period: to

    Contemporary

  • transistor radios

    a semiconductor device with three connections, capable of amplification in addition to rectification.
  • color movies

    Color motion picture film refers both to unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera.
  • color tv

    information on the color of the picture.
  • vcr

    a videocassette recorder.
  • artifical intelligence

    the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence,
  • recording to tape

    An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine
  • 1st satellite

    The first artificial satellite was Sputnik, a Russian beach-ball-size space probe that lifted off on Oct. 4, 1957.
  • laser printers

    a printer linked to a computer producing good-quality printed material by using a laser to form a pattern of electrostatically
  • gps

    an accurate worldwide navigational and surveying facility based on the reception of signals from an array of orbiting satellites.
  • cellular phones

    a mobile device
  • apple ll computer

    The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products.
  • email

    messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
  • autonomous vehicles

    a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with little or no human input.
  • 3d printing

    additive manufacturing.
  • internet

    a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
  • mp3 player

    a means of compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, to enable digital storage and transmission.
  • dvd players

    is a peripheral device for a computer.
  • youtube

    watching videos
  • iphone

    a smartphone made by Apple
  • ipad

    a brand name for a tablet