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Jan 1, 710
Creation and use of Bronze 3000 B.C.
Sumerians were the first to create a form of written documents as well some of the first people to start creating bronze tools. Which is a alloy of 90% copper and 10% tin. bronze was more durable than pure copper. -
Jan 1, 715
Use of Iron has been dated back to 2000 B.C
Iron was devloped in southern Asia and was more useful than bronze. -
William Gregor discovered the element Titanium
William discovered the element that we use today primarily for aircraft. -
Michael Faraday discovers semi-conductors.
He discovered that in silver sulfide crystals that electrical conduction increased with heat. This is important because this is the base for what modern computer processors will later be built on. -
Titanium first purified
In 1910 Matthew Hunter was the first person to purify titanium.
Titanium is one of the more modern HPMs. ( High performance materials). It is used in lots of aerospace applications. -
John Bardeen and Walter Brattain create the point contact transistor.
John Bardeen & Walter Brattain created a point contact transistor in 1947 and helped increase our knowledge of semi-conductors. -
Products with transistors hit the consumer market.
transistors in the consumer market is one step closer to having computers in most homes. -
Most transistors in a comercially avalible processor
The Intel Zeon "Ivytown" processor has 4.31billion transistors and is comercially avalible. -
The Creation of steel 1600 B.C.
Steel had just the right amount of flexibility to make it excellent for weapons and building many modern buildings. Devloped by the Persians around 1600 B.C.
