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Carlo Maramian

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Historical Devt of Science and Waves of Technology

PREHISTORIC TIMES

  • 3.5 million years ago - Humans make the first tools from stone, wood, antlers, and bones.
  • 1–2 million years ago - Humans discover fire.
  • 10,000 BCE - Earliest boats are constructed
  • 8000– 9000 BCE - Beginnings of human settlements and agriculture.

ANCIENT TIMES

  • 3500 BCE - Humans invent the wheel.
  • 3000–600BCE - Bronze Age: Widespread use of copper and its important alloy bronze.
  • 1000 BCE - Iron Age begins: iron is widely used for making tools and weapons in many parts of the world.
  • 250 B.C. - Greek invented Archimedes Screw to pump water
  • 300– 200 BCE - Chinese invent early magnetic direction finders.

MEDIEVAL PERIOD

  • ~600 CE - Windmills are invented in the Middle East.
  • 700–900 CE - Chinese invent gunpowder and fireworks.
  • 1000 CE - Chinese develop eyeglasses.
  • 1206 - Arabic engineer al-Jazari invents a flushing hand-washing machine

RENAISSANCE

  • 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus said Sun is the center of the Universe
  • 1590 - Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope
  • 1609 - Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries.
  • 1687 - Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.

19th CENTURY

  • 1800 - Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery.
  • 1820s - Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators and motors.
  • 1898 Marie Curie (1867-1934) and Pierre Curie (1859-1906) discovered radium and polonium.
  • 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X rays.

20th CENTURY

  • 1901 Discovery of human blood groups / Landsteiner
  • 1905 Special theory of relativity / Einstein
  • 1969 - Astronauts walk on the Moon.
  • 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
  • 1997 - WiFi was invented and first released for consumers

21st CENTURY

  • 2001 - The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded
  • 2004 - Electronic voting founded
  • 2007 - Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone.
  • 2019 Google claims to have achieved "quantum supremacy"
  • 2015 – Traces of liquid water discovered on Mars
  • 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine has been accelerated.

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