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3500 BCE
The Wheel
The wheel is very simple to explain, it rolls. you attach it to something and it moves faster, or it can power things (like a water wheel). The wheel is a caveman-level technology, but it took them years to develop because they did not have the proper metal tools. the wheel is seen on every car, truck, and bike you see on this planet today. -
Maiden Voyage of the Clermont
On August 17, 1807, the steamboat Clermont took voyage on its maiden journey. Even though it only traveled at 5 miles per hour, it was the first profitable steamboat venture, and paved the way for the steam travel industry to become what it is today. -
Lehigh Canal
The Lehigh Canal was and still is used to transport goods over water. This was a local revolution, as the Lehigh are still uses the canal to this day. -
The First Telegraphic Message is Sent
Telegraphic messages were the first form of long distance communication that did not need to be mailed out and could be received instantly. Without early developments such as this one, communication as we know it today could be drastically changed (No Texting/Phone Calls). -
The First Transcontinental Railroad
This was the first railroad to cover all of the United States. It forever changed the way we transport goods, long gone was the era of pack mules and horse and buggy travel. -
Wright Brothers' First Flight
The average person has probably been on a plane. Planes are used every day, for transporting goods, travel, and even warfare. Our world would not be the same without planes, and we wouldn't have them without the genius of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who successfully invented and piloted the first functioning aircraft in 1903. -
The First Television Broadcast
On the 2nd of July 1928, C.F Jenkins was authorized to broadcast from a station out of a small suburb in Maryland. This would change the way we as Americans consume information forever, as millions of Americans watch thousands of television broadcasts everyday in modern America. -
Opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
The Pennsylvania Turnpike spans 360 miles, and it was the first toll highway in America. Today highways like these cover America, and they are modeled after the original turnpike opened in 1940. -
WWW (World Wide Web)
Without the internet this entire project would not exist, nor half of the projects I do in school, or the CTSO Store I run. As a country, America quite literally depends on the internet. And we owe that dependency to Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the world wide web in 1990. -
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station is a joint project between many different space agencies, and it does a lot for connecting humans internationally. The station was launched into orbit on Nov 20, 1998. -
Myspace
Social media is everywhere nowadays. There are so many social media sites it is hard to keep track of them, but the earliest example of a social network is Myspace. Although Myspace barley exists in 2019, it provided inspiration for services such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. -
The First Iphone
90 percent of phones today are smartphones. They all have touch screens, some sort of finger print, voice, or even facial recognition. Phones can even replace televisions and computers in some cases. The original iPhone is accepted as the original smartphone, and it pioneered a new era of technology.
