World History/Technology

Prehistoric Technology

• Hunting
• Agriculture
• Domestication
• Fire
• Cooking
• Architecture
• The Wheel
• Stone work
• Bronze work
• Iron work
• Art
• Clothes
• Simple roads and trails

Ancient Era

The Simple Machines

• Simple Machines
• Wheeled Vehicles
• Astronomy
• Aqueducts
• Writing
• Laws
• Lathes
• Water Mills
• Crop Rotation
• Magnetic Compass
• Arithmetic
• Trigonometry
• Papyrus and Paper
• Portions of Algebra
• Portions of Calculus
• Bookkeeping
• Novelty Automata
• Aeolipile
• Antikythera mechanism
• Paved roads
• Medical Isolation

Medieval Era

• Algebra
• Calculus
• Printing Press
• Pinhole camera
• Silk
• Inoculation
• Quarantine

Industrial Revolution

• Machine Tools
• Practical Photography
• Practical Steam Engines
• Steam locomotives
• Difference engine
• Steamboats
• Telegraphs
• Hot Air Balloon flight

Second Industrial Revolution and Machine Age

• X-Rays
• Mass production of steel
• Practical electrical machines
• Telephones
• Fax machine
• Radio
• Bicycles
• Automobiles
• Airplanes
• Early Practical Digital Computers
• Practical Film & Movie Theaters

1930's-1955

• Practical Radar
• Practical Jet Aircraft
• Practical Television broadcasting
• Atomic Bombs
• Atomic Power
• General purpose programmable digital computers
• Foundational concepts of Machine Intelligence
• Supersonic manned aircraft
• Operational Cruise Missiles
• Long Range Ballistic Missiles

1955-1970

Yuri Gagarin, first huamn to fly to space.

• Artificial satellites
• Human Spaceflight
• Practical Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
• Early Computer Networks
• Green Revolution in Agriculture
• Point-contact transistors
• Integrated circuits
• Early Video Games
• Practical Industrial Robots

1970-Present Day

• Popular Personal Computers
• Handheld and wearable computers
• Cellular Telephones
• Internet protocol suite
• Modular Space Stations
• Practical Digital Cameras