Technology Through The Ages

  • Lead Pencil
    1564

    Lead Pencil

    It was invented in 1564 when a huge graphite mine was discovered in Borrowdale. The inventor's name was Conrad Gessner. This invention led to us having the ability to write on a paper and the modern pencil.
  • Microscope

    Microscope

    In 1609 Galileo Galilei perfected the first device known as a microscope. The microscope solved many things in science as they noticed what cells where with the microscope, therefore without it there could possibly be no science.
  • Lightning Rod

    Lightning Rod

    In 1749, Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod. They were also known as Lightning Attractor or Franklin Rod. His invention was a result of his investigations of electricity. He needed to figure out what he would use to attract an electrical charge.
  • Battery

    Battery

    In 1800, Volta invented the first true battery, which came to be known as the voltaic pile. Batteries are essential components of most electrical devices, such as cars, laptops, and CD players.
  • Railroads

    Railroads

    in 1804, Richard Trevithick developed the first successful railroad steam locomotive. Since then the railroads have been an important use for trade routes and even transportations.
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow

    John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837 when the Middle-West was being settled. We now use the plow to turn and break up soil, to bury crop residues, and to help control weeds. Overall the plow is great for farming.
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone in 1876. The phone led up to what we know as cell phones and a way to communicate with friends and family.
  • Light Bulb

    Light Bulb

    invented in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison. The light bulb introduced the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
  • automobile

    automobile

    Benz Patent Motor Car was the first automobile from 1885–1886 The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz. Since then the automobile has been made into one of the greatest transportations.
  • Radio

    Radio

    Guglielmo Marconi proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. Since then the radio has helped out over many things like the news and listening to the football games.
  • First Programmable Computer

    First Programmable Computer

    The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse between 1936 and 1938. It's the first really functional modern computer and the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer. This allowed for the British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages.
  • Satellite

    Satellite

    It was invented on 4 October 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer. Satellites help us with many things such as the weather and navigation.