Timeline
Internet Timeline
Here you will find the timeline of technology. Your assignment is to take out 7-10 key moments that you like and to use one of the websites listed below (or any others you can find) to make a creative and beautiful digital timeline. You will notice that my timeline ends in 2001 – you must also add 3-5 key moments since 2001 to your timeline (10-15 in total). Be sure to use as many multi-media components as you can. Upload your timeline to your Blog. On your Blog page list 2 pros and 2 cons of the timeline you selected.
2400 BC The abacus, the first known calculator, invented in Babylonia
300 BC Pingala invents the binary number system
87 BC Antikythera Mechanism invented in Rhodes to track movement of the stars
724 Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock
1041 Movable type printing press invented by Bi Sheng
1280 Eyeglasses were invented
1350 Suspension bridges built in Peru
1450 Alphabetic, movable type printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg
1500 Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots
1510 Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein
1576 Ironclad warship invented by Oda Nobunaga
1581 Pendulum invented by Galileo Galilei
1593 Thermometer invented by Galileo Galilei
1608 Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey
1609 Microscope invented by Galileo Galilei
1642 Adding machine invented by Blaise Pascal
1643 Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli
1645 Vacuum pump invented by Otto von Guericke
1657 Pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens
1679 Pressure cooker invented by Denis Papin
1687 Newton, Principia: Newton’s physics formed the foundation of modern science
1698 Steam engine invented by Thomas Savery
1671 Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus
1705 Steam piston engine invented by Thomas Newcomen
1708 Jethro Tull invents mechanical (seed) sower
1710 Thermometer invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
1733 John Kay invents flying shuttle.
1742 Franklin stove invented by Benjamin Franklin
1752 Lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin
1767 Spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves
1769 Steam engine invented by James Watt
1774 Priestly isolates oxygen
1779 First steam powered mills automate the weaving process.
1781 William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1783 Hot air balloon invented by Montgolfier brothers
1791 Steamboat invented by John Fitch
1793 Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin
1798 Vaccination invented by Edward Jenner
1799 Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
1799 Oliver Evans invents the conveyer belt
1804 Locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick
1814 Steam Locomotive (Blucher) invented by George Stephenson
1816 Miner’s safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy
1816 Stethoscope invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
1820 The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
1821 Faraday demonstrates the principle of the electric motor.
1822 Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
1821 Electric motor invented by Michael Faraday
1826 Photography invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce
1830 Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding
1831 Von Liebig discovers chloroformFaraday discovers electro-magnetic current, making possible generators and electric engines.
1834 Braille invented by Louis Braille
1834 Refrigerator invented by Jacob Perkins
1834 Combine harvester invented by Hiram Moore
1835 Morse code invented by Samuel Morse
1835 Revolver invented by Samuel Colt
1838 Electric telegraph invented by Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
1838 Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype.
1839 Vulcanization of rubber invented by Charles Goodyear
1842 Anaesthesia invented by Crawford Long
1843 Typewriter invented by Charles Thurber
1846 Sewing machine invented by Elias Howe
1846 Rotary printing press invented by Richard M. Hoe
1846 Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
1849 Safety pin invented by Walter Hunt
1849 Monier develops reinforced concrete
1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
1859 Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engine
1862 Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling
1862 Isaac Singer commercializes the sewing machine
1862 Mechanical submarine invented by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
1866 Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel
1866 Lister demonstrates the use of carbolic antiseptic
1869 Mendeleev produces the Periodic Table
1870 Stock ticker invented by Thomas Alva Edison
1873 Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter
1873 James Clerk Maxwell states the laws of electro-magnetic radiation
1876 Gasoline carburettor invented by Daimler
1877 Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison
1877 Microphone invented by Emile Berliner
1878 Cathode ray tube invented by William Crookes
1878 Edison invents the incandescent lamp.
1880 Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
1883 First skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories)
1883 Maxim invents the machine gun
1885 Motor cycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm MaybachBenz develops first automobile to run on internal- combustion engine
1888 Hertz produces radio waves.
1888 Eiffel Tower is bult
1891 Zipper invented by Whitcomb L. Judson
1891 Rudolf Diesel invents diesel
1893 Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla
1895 Diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel
1895 Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
1893 Auguste and Louis Lumiere develop Cinematograph
1893 Roentgen discovers X-rays
1898 Remote control invented by Nikola Tesla
1900 Planck develops quantum theory
1900 First Zeppelin is built
1901 Vacuum cleaner invented by Hubert Booth
1903 Powered airplane invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
1905 Einstein writes the Theory of Relativity.
1907 Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
1907 Helicopter invented by Paul Cornu
1907 Radio amplifier invented by Lee DeForest
1908 Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.
1909 Bakelite invented by Leo Baekeland
1919 London to Paris air service begins
1919 James Smathers develops the first electric typewriter
1923 Sound film invented by Lee DeForest
1923 Television Electronic invented by Philo Farnsworth
1924 Electro Mechanical television system invented by John Logie Baird
1926 Robert Goddard experiments with liquid-fueled rockets.
1928 Antibiotics, penicillin invented by Alexander Fleming
1931 Iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin
1937 Jet engine invented by Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
1937 Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
1938 Ballpoint pen invented by Laszlo Biro
1943 Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine
1943 Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus
1943 Aqua-Lung invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
1945 The atomic bomb
1946 Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer
1951 Nuclear power reactor invented by Walter Zinn
1956 Optical fiber invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
1956 Videocassette recorder invented by Ampex
1957 Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
1958 Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
1960 Laser invented by Theodore Harold Maiman
1961 Uri Gagarin is the first man in space
1961 Optical disc invented by David Paul Gregg
1963 Computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart
1967 Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) invented by John Shepherd-Barron
1967 Hypertext invented by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
1968 Video game console invented by Ralph H. Baer
1969 The moon landing – Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
1971 E-mail invented by Ray Tomlinson
1971 Liquid Crystal Display invented by James Fergason
1971 Pocket calculator invented by Sharp Corporation
1971 Floppy Disk invented by David Noble with IBM
1973 Ethernet invented by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs
1973 Personal computer invented by Xerox PARC
1983 Camcorder invented by Sony
1990 World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
2001 Digital satellite radio