t h

1401-1500

The birt h of mode rn print ing.
Marked by 15th century master printer Johann
Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440)
that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books
possible.


1440 - Johannes Gutenberg invents printing
press with metal movable type



Johannes Gutenberg
invents printing
press with metal
movable type.

Samuel
Morse
invents
the
telegraph.

Joseph
Nicphore
Nipce
was the
first
person to
take a
photograph.

Henry Fox Talbot invents
calotype photography.



Electric
Telegraph
by
Georges
Louis
Lesage

Louis Robert invents the
Fourdrinier Machine
for sheet paper-making.

First mechanical computer by
Charles Babbage




Christopher
Scholes invents
the first
practical and
modern
typewriter.



Eadweard
Muybridge
invents the
first
moving
pictures.


Frequency
modulation
(FM radio)
invented by
Edwin Howard
Armstrong.




Polaroid
photography
invented by
Edwin
Herbert Land.


The mechanical television, invented
by John Logie Baird.




Chester F.
Carlson
invents
the
photocopier.



Peter
Goldmark
invents
modern
color
television
system.

John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
- first electronic digital computer.









First
cellular
phone.




Charles
Ginsburg
invented
the first
video
tape
recorder
(VTR).

Alexander Graham Bell patents
the
telephone




Digital cellular
phones
invented.




The World Wide Web and
Internet protocol
(HTTP) and
WWW language
(HTML) created by
Tim Berners-Lee.





Facebook



Skype




The
first
iPad





t h
1701-1800

I ndust rial Re vol ut ion.
Widespread replacement of manual labor by new
inventions and machinery.


1774 - Electric Telegraph by Georges
Louis Lesage

1799 - Louis Robert invents
the Fourdrinier Machine
for sheet paper making.

t h
1801-1900


The invention of useable electricity, steel, and petroleum
products during the 19th century lead to a second
industrial revolution (18651900), that featured the
growth of railways and steam ships, faster and
wider means of communication, and inventions with
names we all know today.




1814 - Joseph Nicphore Nipce was the first person to take a
photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called
the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It
took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
1835 Henry Fox Talbot invents calotype photography.

1837 Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- First mechanical computer (Charles Babbage).

1867 - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and
modern typewriter.

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1877 - Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.

1881 David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.


t h
1901-2000

Technology, science, and inventions have progressed at
an accelerated rate during the 20th century, more than
any other century.
We began the 20th century with the infancy of
airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those
inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder.
We end the 20th century with spaceships, computers, cell
phones, and the wireless Internet all being technologies
we can take for granted.



1 9 01 The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
1 9 1 0 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
1 9 1 2 Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
1 9 21 Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
1 9 25 The mechanical television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1 9 29 American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
1 9 3 1 Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
1 9 3 2 Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
1 9 3 3 Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard
Armstrong.
Stereo records invented.
Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his
driveway.
1 9 3 4 Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first
magnetic recording.
1 9 3 7 Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
1 9 40 Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
1 9 41 Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1 9 42 John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry - first electronic digital computer.
1 9 47 Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold
commercially until 1983.




The Fifties The Sixties

During the 50s, television became the
dominant media. It had been invented
many years previous, however the 50s
saw nearly every family buying a
television set. Watching television for
longer. Television broadcasts became
our number one source of news,
information, and entertainment.
Live news broadcasts were now
possible coast to coast, and this
has changed our world forever.

The 60s have been described by historians
as the ten years having the most
significant changes in history. By the
end of the 60s humanity had entered
the spaceage by putting a man on the
moon.
Late 1960s the internet made its first
appearance.

1 9 51 Charles Ginsburg invented the first
video tape recorder (VTR).
1 9 56 The first computer hard disk used.


1 9 6 2 The audio cassette invented.
1 9 6 3 The video disk invented.
1 9 6 4 BASIC (an early computer language) is
invented by John George Kemeny and Tom
Kurtz.



The Seventies The Eighties

The 70s began the age of the practical
computer made possible by the invention of
the floppy disk and the microprocessor that
occurred during the 70s.

Many of the most popular consumer
products still around today were invented in
the 80s for example: cell phones and home
computers.


1 9 71 Email was developed
VCR or videocassette invented.
1 9 73 The ethernet (local computer network)
invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
1 9 74 APRANET first commercial network.
1 9 75 The laser printer invented.
1 9 76 The ink-jet printer invented.
1 9 79 Cell phones invented.
Cray supercomputer invented by
Seymour Cray.
Walkman invented.

1 9 8 4 The CD-ROM invented.
The Apple Macintosh invented.
1 9 8 5 Windows program invented by
Microsoft.
1 9 8 6 Fuji introduced the disposable
camera.
1 9 8 8 Digital cellular phones invented.
1 9 8 9 High-definition television invented.






The Nineties 21
st
Century



The 90s saw the invention of the internet
and the rise of Microsoft. The 90s saw
the invention of genetic engineering,
as well as cloning, and stem cell
research.
2000s
Many of the most popular consumer
products still around today were
invented in the 80s for example: cell
phones and home computers.


1990 The World Wide Web and
Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW
language (HTML) created by Tim
Berners-Lee.
1995 The Java computer language
invented.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or
Digital Video Disc) invented.
1996 Web TV invented.

2001 iPod, created under project
codename Dulcimer.
2004 Facebook.
2006 - Skype.
2010 The iPad was invented.