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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)
Cave paintings (also known as “parietal art”) are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, dated to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia. The exact purpose of the Paleolithic cave paintings is not known. Evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. They are also often located in areas of caves that are not easily accessible. -
24,000 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (24,000 BC)
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu(m) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. -
1700 BCE
PRE INDUSTRIAL AGE
People discover fire, developed paper from plants and forge weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
1440 BCE
Printing Press for Mass Production
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. -
Newspaper – The London Gazette (1640)
The London Gazette was first published as The Oxford Gazette on 7 November 1665. Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London, and courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone hold to read, London newspapers for fear of contagion. The Gazette was “Published by Authority” by Henry Muddiman, and its first publication is noted by Samuel Pepys in his diary. -
Industrial Age (1700’s-1930’s)
People use power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production and the manufacturing of various products (including books through printing press) -
Typewriter (1800)
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type. A typewriter operates by means ofkeys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper. Typically, a single character is printed on each key press. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. -
TELEPHONE
A system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound, typically voices, over a distance using wire or radio. -
Electronic Age: (1930s – 1980s)
The Electronic age is the invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor communication became more efficient. -
Papyrus in Egypt
Papyrus was first manufactured in Egypt as far back as the fourth millennium BCE. The earliest archaeological evidence of papyrus was excavated in 2012 and 2013 at Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor located on the Red Sea coast. These documents date from c. 2560–2550 BCE (end of the reign of Khufu).
