MEDIEVAL AGES
500 A.D., sometimes referred as the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages
1. As Christianity grew in popularity, enormous cathedrals were constructed.
2. Building magnificent places for the local nobility.
3. Astrolabe - crucial tool for estimating time, calculating elevations and assisting in scientific and
mathematical computations; navigation and astronomy.
Invention Year Person Information
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1440s - 1 mechanical printing machine
4. Printing Johannes Gutenberg
1456 - Bible: 1st book printed (150 copies)
- Hans Lippershey - Netherlands, invented it
5. Telescope
1610 Galileo Galilei - used his revised invention
1950 Hans Janssen and son - Dutch, combined glass lenses
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1676 Anton van Leeuwenhoek - magnified it 270 times
1752 Benjamin Franklin - American, electricity: thunderstorm
7. Lightning Rod
1754 Franklin and Prokop Divis - developed the lightning rod
- “reading glasses” or iteros ab oculis ad legend. Concave: near, Convex: far
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1825 Sir George Airy - cylindrical lenses: cure astigmatism
MODERN ERA / HISTORY
1500s to the 1800s, cultural movement that has an enduring influence on the globe
FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Invention Year Person Information
1765 James Watt - 1st steam engine
1. Steam power
- George Stephenson - the Rocket: 1st locomotive
2. Photography - fusion of art, skill, and technique aimed at capturing enduring images
3. Cotton gin - machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds fast and easily
4. Typewriters - Christopher Sholes - 1st practical keyboard
5. Telegraph 1836 Samuel F. B. Morse - transformed communication
1844 Elias Howe - invented sewing machine
6. Sewing Machine
- Isaac Singer - improved on it and patented it later
7. Power Loom 1785 Edmund Cartwright - devised the power loom
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Invention Year Person Information
- Edison’s Electric Illumination Company
1. Bulb 1879 Thomas Edison
built their power station in NY
1876 - restricted to a single room
2. Telephone Alexander Graham Bell
1877 - established his company, long-distance
1876 Nicolas Otto - German, internal combustion engine
3. Motor Car
- Karl Benz - 1st automobile, Benz Patent Motorwagen
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1 movie played was “The Arrival of a Train at Ciotat Station” at Grande Cafe
4. Movies (Paris) by Auguste and Louis Lumiere (brothers)
1889 George Eastman - Celluloid film
Wilhelm Rontgen - discovered it
5. X-rays 1895
Marie Curie (Nobel Prize winner) - new radioactive elements, development
- Heinrich Hertz - 1st to demonstrate their existence
6. Communi- 1896 Guglielmo Marconi - worlds 1st radio station, Morse code
cation Radio 1909 Guglielmo Marconi - Nobel Prize in Physics
1915 John Logie Baird - Scotland, transmit 1st crisp TV images
Wilbur and - built and piloted the 1st successful
7. Flight 1903
Orville Wright airplane near Kitty Hawk, North California
11th cen - - 1st used in China
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8. Rockets and 19 cen Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - space stations and air locks
Space Flights 1926 Robert Goddard - American scientist, liquid-fueled rockets
1961 Yuri Gagarin - 1st person to orbit the Earth
9. Atomic Bomb 1932 Physicists Earnest Walton and John Cockcroft
THIRD SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL REVOLUTION
1949 - 1st true programmable electronic computer
1960s - silicon chip
1984 - CD
Internet: Mobile phone technology
1953 - DNA’s structure
2012 - CRISPR gene editing
2015 - 1st ever detection of gravitational waves