Time Periods

  • 1200

    Block Printing

    A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
  • Period: 1200 to

    Early Modern

  • 1450

    Printing Press

    A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper
  • Period: to

    Modern

  • photographs

    An image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip
  • Telegraph

    A point-to-point text messaging system, used from the 1840s until the mid 20th century when it was slowly replaced by other telecommunication systems.
  • Silent Movies

    Movies with no sound
  • Telephone

    Telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
  • First Wireless Communication

    Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open sea
  • Recording to Tape

    A sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage
  • Radio

    Technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves.
  • 1st Movie With Sound

    The first movie with sound
  • Paperback Books

    A type of book characterized by its soft cover
  • Color Movies

    Movies that aren't in black and white and have many different colors
  • Cable Tv

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

    Contemporary

  • First Computer

    The Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC
  • Transistor Radios

    small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry
  • Color TV

    Tv with color
  • Artificial Intelligence

    the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.
  • VCR

    a videocassette recorder
  • 1st Satellite

    The Sputnik launched by the USSR
  • Laser Printer

    a printer linked to a computer producing good-quality printed material by using a laser to form a pattern of electrostatically charged dots on a light-sensitive drum, which attract toner (or dry ink powder). The toner is transferred to a piece of paper and fixed by a heating process.
  • Cellular Phones

    a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.
  • Apple II computer

    8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products
  • GPS

    The Global Positioning System
  • Email

    Electronic Mail
  • 3D Printing

    the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model.
  • Internet

    the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices
  • Autonomous Vehicles

    Self driving car. Like Tesla
  • DVD Players

    The device that plays dvds
  • MP3 Player

    a device that stores and plays songs in a computer format (called MP3) for creating sound files that are much smaller than standard sound files.
  • YouTube

    A website for watching videos that anyone can publish
  • iPhone

    A phone made by the company Apple
  • Ipad

    a touchscreen tablet PC made by Apple