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Industrial Revoloution
The industrial revolution started in 1760 and lasted till about 1820. We moved from craftspeople to mass-producing wares especially metals and textiles. With the creation of steam engines it meant that we could build massive machines to use for manufacturing, of which industries such as the textile industry benefited massively from it. -
Bell makes the fist phone call
Bell makes the first phone call saying, "Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!" -
First Exchange
First telephone exchange is built in Boston -
Duryea Motor Wagon Company
In 1893, brothers Charles and Frank Duryea founded the first car manufacturers in the US, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. -
First Radio
After years of experiments from various people, Guglielmo Marconi patents the first radio. With the first radio station being created a year later. -
First Spark Gap Radio
Reginald Fessenden used an Alexanderson alternator and rotary spark-gap transmitter to make the first radio audio broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible -
First Ford Model T
The first Ford Model T rolled off the production line bringing in a new era of manufacturing with the assembly line, a method still widely used today -
First Rotary Phones
In the 30's the first rotary phones began increasing in popularity replacing the old candlestick models. They also integrated the headset into one unit. -
FM Radio
Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they were established commercial modes. -
First Industrial Robot
In the mid 20th Century the first robots were created for use in manufacturing.
The robot could stack wooden blocks in pre-programmed patterns. The number of motor revolutions required for each desired movement was first plotted on graph paper. This information was then transferred to the paper tape, which was also driven by the robot's single motor.
It was created by Griffith P. Taylor in 1937 and published in Meccano Magazine -
First Transistorised Radio
Sony introduced their first transistorized radio -
First robot Used in Car production
In 1961 the first robot was used on a car assembly Line -
First Push Button Phones
In 1963, AT&T introduced Touch-Tone, which allowed phones to use a keypad to dial numbers and make phone calls. Each key would transmit a certain frequency, signaling to the telephone operator which number you wanted to call. -
First mobile phone call
Motorola manager Martin Cooper placed a cellular phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs -
Robots are Standard
Robots became standard on car assembly lines -
GPS
Global Positioning System satellites launched -
DAB Radio
Digital transmissions are started -
Robots
Robots continued to get more and more advanced and now are used almost everywhere for manufacturing and often outnumber the workers in the factories.
The impact of robots has good and bad points. On one hand it saves time and in the long run cuts costs. But it leads to fewer jobs and the jobs they create need extensive training and also industrial robots cost lots of money. -
3D Printing
Over the Last couple of years a new technology has come into play, 3D Printing. This is basically creating products out of plastic at the moment.
It is currently used for rapid prototyping but is starting to be used in factories for manufacturing.
Over the next few years it is expected that we will be able to use stronger materials for 3d printing and I believe/hope that we will get to the stage of being able to have one in the house to print things like food or clothes etc...
