Technology Timeline

  • 1530 Salellite

    1530 Salellite
    Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking.
  • 1590 microscope

    1590 microscope
    A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope.
  • 1600 thermometer

    1600 thermometer
    Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer.
  • 1800

    1800
    ltalian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery
  • 2010 touchscreen phone

    2010 touchscreen phone
    Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
  • 2016

    2016
    Apple created iphone 7