Engineering History

By Kyla Clarke
  • 2700 BCE

    Eygption pyramids were built

    the pyramids were built in Giza, Eygpt
  • 200

    Romans built a road system

    The road spanned 44,000 miles and created aquadct systems to provide drinking water
  • 500

    medievil and renaissance periods

    inventions were being created all over Europe
  • Sep 8, 1163

    Norte Dame de Paris cathedral

    started in 1163 completed in 1345
  • Sep 8, 1382

    Mariano di Iacops worte two books about engineering

    two books about engineering were written during the renaissance period

  • new steam engines were installed

  • the British Parliment passed legeslation that created the board of longitude

  • the fist cotton mill was opened

  • the water frame spins cotton into thread using water machines

  • James Watt developed a version of an engine that could drive factory machines

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

  • Robert Flulton completed 146 long steam ship

  • Friedrich Koeing invented asteam powerd printing press

  • the transcontinental rail road was created

    the rail road is linked through Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, CA

  • Dynamo machines

    machines that convert ratational energy from a steam engine or water wheel into electrical energy, provided efficient methods of generating electricity

  • Thomas Edison's light system was installed in New York