Technology and society

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Neolithic

    Was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 15,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world[2] and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC. Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age AKA The New Stone Age.
  • 7000 BCE

    The wheel is invented

    The wheel is invented
    A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing. The wheel is one of the main components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines.
  • 4000 BCE

    Humans begin using metals

    Humans begin using metals
    The metal is a material that is typically hard, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity. Metals are generally malleable—that is, they can be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking—as well as fusible and ductile
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 500 BCE

    Classical Antiquilty

    is the long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.
  • 3500 BCE

    The Plough

    The Plough
    He Big Dipper (US) or the Plough (UK) is an asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major;[3][4][5][6] six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez, of third magnitude.
  • 2500 BCE

    Abacus

    Abacus
    The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system
  • Period: 500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    The Middie Ages

    In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period.
  • 105

    Paper

    Paper
    Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes
  • 770

    HorseShoes

    HorseShoes
    Horseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area
  • Period: 1500 to

    The modern age

    Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the global historiographical approach to the timeframe after post-classical history.
    Modern history can be further broken down into periods
  • 1564

    Galileo's telescope

    Galileo's telescope
    Galileo Galilei (Italian: 15 February 1564– 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of science
  • Janssen microscope

    Janssen microscope
    Zacharias Janssen (also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen) (1585 – pre-1632[) was a Dutch spectacle-maker from Middelburg associated with the invention of the first optical telescope
  • Period: to

    First industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840
  • Period: to

    Comtemporary period

    Contemporary history is a subset of modern history which describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present
  • Steam locomotive

    Steam locomotive
    A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material – usually coal, wood, or oil – to produce steam in a boiler.
  • SteamBoat

    SteamBoat
    A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.The term steamboat is used to refer to smaller, insular, steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats.
  • Cement

    Cement
    A cement is a binder, a substance used in construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together. Cement is seldom used solely, but is used to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together.
  • Electric Generator

    Electric Generator
    n electricity generation, a generator[1] is a device that converts motive power into electrical power for use in an external circuit. Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines and even hand cranks
  • Telephone.Meucci

    Telephone.Meucci
    Antonio Meucci, crostructed the telephone.
  • X-ray, Roentgen

    X-ray, Roentgen
    X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. In many languages, X-radiation is referred to with terms meaning Röntgen radiation, after the German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen.
  • The Television

    The Television
    Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip, and advertising.
  • Mobile Phone

    Mobile Phone
    A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator, which provides access to the public switched telephone network. Modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture, and, therefore, mobile telephones are often also called cellular telephones or cell phones.
  • Windows operating system

    Windows operating system
    Microsoft Windows, or simply Windows, is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture.
  • Wi-fi networks

    Wi-fi networks
    Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term Wi-Fi Certified to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing.
  • Blu-Ray standard

    Blu-Ray standard
    Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing hours of video in high-definition (720p and 1080p) and ultra high-definition resolution (2160p)
  • New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto

    New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto
    New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.[2] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern,[3] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow.