World History/Technology

Prehistoric Technology edit

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

Ancient Era edit

 
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 edit

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

Industrial Revolution edit

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

Second Industrial Revolution and Machine Age edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

 
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 edit

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