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Technology through Engineering

By JohnsonTSA

  • Invention of Battery

    Invention of Battery
    Electrical Engineering: Alessandro Volta invents the electrical battery using cardboard, zinc and copper to create the first practical machine to generate electricity.

  • Invention of Pinch Graft

    The invention of the pinch graft was a major landstone in tissue engineering. It is a process enabling doctors to heal small wounds by letting little pieces of skin grow over the wound.

  • First Wireless Telephone

    First Wireless Telephone
    The telephone was an important invention in electrical engineering. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1908, it allows sound to travel long distancs through a wire or radio. As you can see, even though the telephone was invented more than a hundred years ago, it has continued to grow and develop into the technology we have today and is still prominent in everyday life.

  • Bell Telephone Laboratories

    Bell Telephone Laboratories
    Bell Laboratories (also known as AT&T Bell Laboratories) is a technology research company, which first coined the term "systems engineering" in the 1940s. Bell Telephone Laboratories was formed in 1925.

  • Hoover Dam built

    Hoover Dam built
    The Hoover Dam is one of the first and most successful ventures in earth systems engineering and management. To this day, the Hoover Dam controls floods, provides irrigation to the area and produces hydroelectirc power.

  • First Algorithmic Program

    First Algorithmic Program
    The frist algorithmic program was created by Konrad Zuse. His aim was to create theoretical preconditions for formulating problems. Zuse's algorithmic program was an important innovation in software engineering.

  • RAND Corporation Founded

    RAND Corporation Founded
    The RAND corporation which was founded by the US Air Force, and was an important part of systems engineering, as it created system anaylsis, the study of interworking parts in systems.

  • Department of Defense is founded

    Department of Defense is founded
    The Department of Defense was at first founded for the initial development of missiles and the missile-defense system. These systems were a huge development in systems engineering.

  • First Color TV Broadcast

    First Color TV Broadcast
    NBC does first coast-to-coast color broadcast through 21 stations, showing the Tournament of Roses Parade. Industry employees, VIPs, and others view on about 200 RCA Victor prototype color sets. The invention of the colored TV is was an important event in Electrical Engineering.

  • The Beginning of Software Engineering

    The Beginning of Software Engineering
    Thanks to a convention by the NATO Science Committee, the term "software engineering" was coined to describe software manufacturing based on theoretical foundations and practical disciplines.

  • The Invention of the Internet

    The Invention of the Internet
    On December 14th, 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency went online. This early form of the internet connected four US universities for research and use by the government. Of course, the ARPA was a major step in software engineering.

  • Microsoft Founding Date

    Microsoft Founding Date
    Microsoft was founded as a computer software program by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells software programs for both PC's and Apple products.

  • Global Warming Discovered

    Global Warming Discovered
    Wallace Smith Broecker was the first to use the term "global warming". He suggested its existance in his paper "Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?". Global warming has been a hotly debated and studied topic in earth systems engineering and management since then.

  • Apple Founding Date

    Apple Founding Date
    Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak, and has since become one of the largest and most popular tech companies in the world. Since it's founding, Apple has been a pioneer in software engineering, introducing new methods and providing services to millions of people.

  • Everglades Restoration Plan Passed

    Everglades Restoration Plan Passed
    The restoration of South Florida's Everglades is one of the most significant projects under earth systems engineering and manageent. When the Comprehensive Evergaldes Restoration Plan was passed, the US governemnt agreed to fund 1.3 billion dollars to the restoration effort.
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    Regen CS Release

    http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/OrthopaedicandRehabilitationDevicesPanel/UCM205846.pdf

  • ReCell is Produced

    ReCell is Produced
    ReCell is a revolutionary product in tissue engineering, meant to treat burn victims. Using a kit that could fit in a purse, doctors can take healthy skin cells and make them into a spray-on solution in less than two hours.

  • First Human Organ Produced from Stem Cells

    First Human Organ Produced from Stem Cells
    Scientists in Japan produced lab-grown human liver tissue through stem cells. Stem cell research is a promising area of tissue engineering, with the capacity to create entire organs from the body's existing cells to replace damaged ones.