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8000 BCE
BEGINNING OF ENGINEERING
The development of engineering began with the agricultural revolution, when men stopped being nomads and lived in a fixed place to be able to grow their products and raise edible animals. -
3000 BCE
EGYPTIAN ENGINEERING
The construction of pyramids was something remarkable, considering that neither the thyme nor the pulley were known. There was no other mechanism than the lever. Thus producing results that are difficult to believe.
They also built dams and canals, and had complex irrigation systems. -
1400 BCE
GREEK ENGINEERING
It is called "Golden Age of Greece". A surprising number of significant achievements in the areas of art, philosophy, science, literature and government were the reason for this small portion of time in human history. -
312 BCE
ROMAN ENGINEERING
For the most part, Roman engineering was civil, especially in the design and construction of permanent works such as aqueducts, roads, bridges, and public buildings. The best-known triumph is the Appian Way, Europe's first major covered road. -
700
EASTERN ENGINEERING
One of the greatest achievements of all time was the Great Wall of China. This is one of the examples of oriental determination and patience without a time limit, also at that time the locks were not known. -
1500
TRIANGLE OF FORCES
It was one of the most important discoveries in the history of mechanical engineering that Simon Stevin made in Holland, which allowed engineers to manage resultant forces acting on structural members. Stevin wrote a treatise on fractions and also carried out work that led to the development of the metric system. -
NEWTON
They independently discovered differential calculus. Newton discovered integral calculus, and later described the reciprocal relationship between differential and integral calculus. These discoveries occurred in Woolsthorpe, because Cambirdge was closed as a result of an epidemic. -
Phone
The telephone is considered the first device that allowed people to communicate directly over long distances, being the seed of the dawn of the globalized world. Such a feat did not appear in the human mind until 1854, when the Italian engineer Antonio Meucci devised and built the first functional prototype. -
locomotive machine
Thomas Savery had the great merit of devising the steam engine. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen greatly improved it, since it was also used to pump water from a mine. These early machines were very deficient, although they represented the initial development of energy from thermal engines and in 1804, Richard Trevithick was the first to make a steam locomotive run on rails. -
CARS AND AIRPLANES
Mass production of automobiles had already begun in France and the United States. The first companies created to manufacture automobiles were the French Panhard et Levassor (1889), and Peugeot (1891). In 1908, Henry Ford began producing automobiles on an assembly line, a totally innovative system that allowed him to achieve manufacturing figures that were previously unthinkable. -
Radio
Radio is not only one of the greatest contributions and inventions of Electrical Engineering, but also one of the most significant in the history of humanity itself. It is the tool that has made possible the communication and transmission of news and information between groups of people over great distances. -
Internet
the invention of the Internet, the greatest revolution in the field of Electrical Engineering and an invention that forever transformed the world we inhabit, the way in which we relate, work, buy and carry out practically any activity in the digital age. -
Play Station 2
Sony launches one of its most emblematic consoles, managing to sell 158,850,000 consoles worldwide after 13 years of being launched. It is the only sixth generation console whose lifespan and official support continued until the eighth generation. -
First electric motor vehicle
The first electric motor vehicle, the Segway (personal transporter), invented by Dean Kamen, is created.
The Segway is the first self-balancing transportation device. The computer and motors located in the base keep the base of the Segway horizontal at all times. The user must lean towards the direction he wants to take (front, back, right or left). -
iPhone
In 2007, Apple presented the first iPhone, a mobile phone that would change the concept of smartphones. Its presentation caused a lot of stir, and not only in the United States, but it had a great impact in each and every country on the globe, it was named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine in 2007. Taken -
First photo of light as a wave and particle at the same time
EPFL scientists have now been able to take the first snapshot of light behaving both as a wave and as a particle. This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time in history, we can film quantum mechanics - and its paradoxical nature - directly -
2019 hyperbolic absorber design
An absorber design that uses a natural hyperbolic material to capture solar energyThe researchers, led by Professor Ping Cheng of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration with Professor Zhuomin M. Zhang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, developed a structure perfect light absorption that uses a set of pyramidal nanostructures made of bismuth telluride (a natural hyperbolic material) on a thin substrate to absorb solar radiation. -
artificial intelligence
2023 has been established as the year of Artificial Intelligence. Software developed by Google, OpenAI and other technology companies can now generate all types of pictorial creations, designs or photographic montages created from phrases and simple text instructions.