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16,500 BCE
T and O map
In the medieval ages, it was more of a symbolic map on how they were viewing the world at the time. The three continents, and the T is the Mediterranean line, as well as the giant O ring symbolized the global oceans -
610 BCE
Anaximanders Map
First map produced, Known continents to the greeks at that time -
14 BCE
In Battuta eratosthenes
Scholar from morocco, He traveled across africa and asia, Considered to be the father of geography, His three volume text includes maps, climate zones, and the location of cities known at that time, He was even credited to calculate the circumference of the earth. He also helped muhhammed, another geographer following the decline of rome to make one of the most advanced maps -
Period: 1 BCE to
History of Cartography
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1492
Age of discovery-Columbus
Columbus sailed to the america's, which led to the Europeans attention to the continent. He assumed if he traveled west, he would hit china and the indies. He was a well credited explorer https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/christopher-columbus/ -
1500
Map of Juan de la Cosa
The first map of the americas, The map had islands of the Caribbean's, it helped push towards the technology of maps and helped spur the jump of colonies -
Sonar
designed by lewis nixon to aid underwater icebergs, It uses pulses to find objects in or under the water mainly used in underwater navigation as well https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/object/sonar/ -
First photo of earth from space
The first photo of earth from space, this was just a precursor to what humanity can achieve and was a stepping stone to see what the earth looked like from past our atmosphere.
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ROV
Tool that can explore the tiniest and deepest parts of the ocean. They are a tool that can help with navigating or noting down underwater areas and tasks that help us gather information. Mainly paved the way to deep sea exploration
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High Res Earthrise
One of the more famous pictures of earth from space, back in history people died in order to map regions or they just had drawings, but this image was taken in the year of 1968 on apollo 8. https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-releases-new-high-resolution-earthrise-image-2/ -
GPS
In the 1970's, the united states department of defense became developing a modern GPS system, it was mainly used to aid for navigational aid and fun fact, during pearl harbor just before the fight, we used sonar and we did detect the Japanese planes in little spurts, how ever we just assumed it was the mountains which were causing interference. Mainly maps were used for navigation but now with GPS, navigating is a lot more easier