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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
It was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Hand work was replaced by machines, making production more efficient and margin a period of extensive urban growth as most industries were in the cities. -
Lightning rod
The lightning rod was created by Benjamin Franklin and is a metallic object on top of an elevated structure, such as a building, a ship, or even a tree, electrically bonded using a wire or electrical conductor to interface with ground or "earth" through an electrode, engineered to protect the structure in the event of lightning strike. -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves created the spinning jenny which reduced the amount of work to produce yarn. -
Steam engine
It was created by James Watt and is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. This allowed many manufacturing machinery to be powered, speeding up industrial productions. Steam engines were also used to power vehicles such as tractors and steam locomotives. -
Indoor Plumbing
Thomas Crapper patented the first indoor toilet. During the Industrial Revolution, towns and cities grew at astonishing rates, causing problems such as overcrowding, pollution from factories, and disease. The indoor plumbing allowed better sanitary conditions in cities. -
Guillotine
Joseph Ignace Guillotine created the guillotine as a more humane and painless form of execution. -
Battery
Alessandro Volta invented batteries, which allowed electricity to be produced without use of water or hand power. -
Locomotive
Was built by Richard Trevithick and helped to connect different placed allowing commerce to be faster and more efficient and also allowing people to move from one place to another in less time. -
Jacquards´s Loom
The Jacquard’s Loom was one of the first machines that was run by a program. It initiated the storage of information on punch cards. The punch cards were secured tightly alongside each other in a sequential manner. It is used automatically produce textile designs as per the program on the punched card. -
Photography
It was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce. He inserted a photographic plate into the bottom of a camera obscura. The camera projected a pattern of light and shadow onto the plate that could be developed into an image. -
Electric telegraph
Charles Wheatstone, William Cooke and Samuel Morse created a telegraph that used a system of dots and dashes. The electric telegraph was first used by railroad companies to send messages across stations, increasing the safety and efficiency of railroads. -
First "Computer Program"
Ada Lovelace has been called the world's first computer programmer. What she did was write the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper. -
Sewing Machine
Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine. The machine was first put to use in factories, where it increased clothes production and lowered costs. The sewing machine also had an impact on women because women workers could operate the machines and find jobs in a factory. However, the machine’s efficiency eventually put traditional seamstresses out of work. Later, the sewing machine became modified for home use and became a part of daily life. -
Typewriter
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Phone
There is not and exact date of the invention, but it revolutionized the world and is said to have been created by Alexander Graham Bell. It makes communications from different places easier, and with all the developments it has been through, it has become a widely used and very efficient communication method. -
Phonograph
The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. -
Submarine
Cornelius Drebbel created it and was firt used in world war I and world war II. Submarines provided a great advantage, and still do, to the navies that posses them, making ambushes easy and tactics more efficient. -
Automobile
Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. With the passing of time the automobiles were fully invented and assembled and then they were used in their full capacities by the common people. -
Dishwashing Machine
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher in the United States, which revolutionized the cleaning of dishes. This dishwasher was motor powered, and it was nothing close to as laborious as the old fashioned way, consisting of hard, physical scrubbing. It was a prototype of the ones we use today. -
Radar
German physicist Heinrich Hertz invented the radar, which uses radio waves to determine different properties of certain objects, such as speed, direction, altitude, and range. It can be used to detect ships, missiles, planes, and spacecrafts. -
Wireless communication
Pioneered in 1901 when Guglielmo Marconi transmitted a Morse code signal across the Atlantic, wireless communications occur when electromagnetic waves are broadcast to a receiving station. Nowadays wireless communication is something of our daily lives help us to communicate with other people faster and easier. Nowadays, we experience this form of communication through WiFi, that connects the entire world through the Internet and allows countless possibilities by a few clicks. -
Air Conditioner
It was invented by Willis Carrier. -
Airplane
The Wright Brothers' created the airplane and was used to transport food and goods in the air and then was used to transport people. -
Electric Refrigerator
It works by pumping a special fluid that vaporizes at low temperatures through a system of pipes, the "fridge" became an indispensable household item that could store foods safely for longer periods. it was created by Nathaniel B. Wales. -
Radio
Was used as a communication medium and gave way entretainment and news and was created by and Italian called Guglielmo Marconi. -
Artificial Life
Artificial life begins -- the first robot is built. John Larson invented the lie detector. -
Television
It revolution the way we communicate and help us entertain and communicate news and gather information. -
Photocopier
It was craeted by Chester Carlson using static electricity and he used a handkerchief, light and dry power to make the first copy. With the time it continue to advance and making the copies easier and faster to print. -
Atomic Bomb
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the discovery of how to split the atom came to horrifying fruition in 1945 with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the face of modern warfare was forever recast, atomic science also led to an alternative, although controversial, method to produce energy: fission. Nuclear fission is now used to generate electricity (if we don´t count radioactivity, it is a more environmental-friendly method) and power submarines and aircraft carriers. -
Transistor
Transistors were first developed in 1947 by Bell Laboratories and allow precise control of the flow of current through circuit boards. A transistor is the active component in almost all modern electronics systems. -
Laser
Was created by Theodore H. Maiman. This has affected our daily life and replaced some procedures in surgeries and is used for aesthetic as well. -
Manned spaceflight
This helped us to create satelites, explore the galaxies outside of earth and send people to space. THis includes rockes and other kind of things that are sent to space. Kerim Kerímov was the one who first achieved it, and then, in 1967, the US sent a crew to the moon, widening everything men knew before. -
Telstar
It was the first commercial satellite that went into orbit. It used solar power when it was in service, and was very important for humanity as it was the first device our race used to relay phone calls, fax images, and television pictures, including transatlantic TV feed, through space. -
BASIC Programming Language
The invention of this "Beginner´s All-Purpose Symbolic Construction Code" helped to make the technological revolution easier, as it allowed more people to be involved in computing due to its ease of use. Because of it, the computers we use now, the way we interact with them through mice and keyboards, exist the way they exist. -
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TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
From the mid 1960s, a lot of ICT advances were made, leading to the computing era as we know it nowadays. The Internet, mobile phones and personal computers available for everyone were created and grew of popularity, and nowadays the world is basically how it is because of all these breakthrough achievements. -
DRAM
it was invented by Robert H. Dennard. This chip vastly increased the memory capacity of computers at a cheaper price. This allowed for a diverse set of more powerful technological products to be created for market, which allowed mainstream technology consumers to own powerful personal tech on a more affordable budget. -
Liquid Crystal Display
Electrical engineer George Heilmeier and his team of scientists revealed the liquid crystal display to the public. The technology that is seen on computers, alarm clocks and the digital screens of microwaves is found everywhere. -
Internet
It was created by Robert e. Khan and Vint Cerf under military purposes with government funding. Now, it is used to gather information and affect us now in our everyday life, it also created business opportunities and changed the way we gather information. Now, millions of computers throughout the world send e-mails, transfer files and connect to the World Wide Web, the most popular aspect of the Internet, created in 1989. -
ATM´s
Automatic Teller Machines Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs), which made their debut in 1969, allow us to make cash withdrawals and deposits day or night. They also contributed, and still do, to networking and the global economy as they make businesses easier. -
Floppy Disk
It is a flexible removable magnetic disk, typically encased in hard plastic, used for storing data. Basically, and early version of the USB. -
Email
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET (the first Internet platform) contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. After experiencing with electronic messaging, the first email was delivered on 1971, and made personal communications much easier, as well as improving communication mechanisms within industries. -
Personal computer
Early computers were bulky, tube-powered behemoths. But with the development of the microprocessor by Intel in 1971, computers became smaller, easier to use and increasingly affordable. Combined with user-friendly operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows or Apple's operating system, the PC has become a dominant tool in the global economy and a mainstay appliance in a growing number of homes. It was created by Tedd Hoff. -
Microprocessor
When Intel brought out the first microprocessor in 1971, the Intel 4004, it started the evolution of the home computer. Up until this time, most computers were in hands mostly of scientists, but the public could not easily access them. When the microprocessor was brought, and with the help of the BASIC programming language, HP launched computers that fit entirely on a desk, included a keyboard, small one-line display and a printer. Because of it, the first pocket calculator was created as well. -
Digital Camera
A digital camera is a camera that produces digital images that can be stored in a computer, displayed on a screen and printed. Nowadays, a wide arrange of devices, like mobile phones and even computers, have digital cameras. Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975. Though originally they were mostly used for media, scientific, military and medical purposes, by 2010 most smartphones had them. -
Apple I
Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I, a single-board computer. With specifications in hand and an order for 100 machines at $500 each from the Byte Shop, he and Steve Jobs got their start in business. -
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
It is a medical diagnostic technique that creates images of the human body using the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance. It was created by Raymond Vahan Damadian. -
GPS (Global Positioning System)
It was invented by Ivan A. Getting, Bradford Parkinson and Roger L. Easton. this system help us to locate places in any part of the world and get to them by using internet maps. -
Word processor
A word processor is an electronic device or computer software application, that performs the task of composing, editing, formatting, and printing of documents. Walkman was one of the first successful word-processing softwares. -
Walkman
Sony built the prototype just as the 1970s were coming to a close. By the end of the decade, Walkman had come to be the generic term for portable audiocassette players, and Sony had extended the brand into videocassettes and CDs (the Discern). It was a portable device used with the purpose of listening to music, all at the reach of your pocket. -
First Laptop
The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called ''Osborne 1'' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a tiny computer screen built into it. -
Cable TV
Basic cable as we know it was born in the late 1970s, when Ted Turner beamed his WTCG (today's TBS) around the country by satellite, where it was distributed in regional cable systems. But cable as we know it began on August 1, 1981. That's when the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" announced the arrival of MTV, which has become a signpost in entertainment history. Today, according to data from SNL Kagan, 56.8 million households get cable TV. -
IBM PC
This computer was the first one to be a truly open system -- it was customizable, users could install whatever they wanted and easily write their own software, and was a groundbreaking invention for its time. -
Compact Disk
It was originally made to store and play back sound recordings only. The format was later adapted to store data, photos, video, and other things. They are increasingly being replaced by downloading and flash drives. -
Apple Lisa
It was one of the first personal computers to offer a graphical user interface (GUI) in a machine aimed at individual business users. It was Apple´s first personal computer. -
Cellphone
On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. Mobile phones are becoming increasingly connected to the Internet, which allows people to do their shopping, communication and trip planning on the go. Mobile phones provide an instant connection to friends and family. In fact, today, out of the 7 billion people in the world, 6 billion have access to these devices. -
Microsoft Windows
Windows was not popular when it started and had to compete with Apple's own operating system. Windows kept being updated. It now dominates the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share. -
WiFi
Wi-Fi, It is one of the important technologies of the computer networking, as It allows the users to connect to the internet technology without wires, is cheap and accesible, and allows a lot of information, people and places to be connected from all around the world all the time. -
World Wide Web
In 1981, the Internet protocol suite was standardized, and consequently, the concept of a world-wide network of interconnected networks, called the Internet, was introduced.Today the Internet continues to grow, driven by great amounts of online information, commerce, entertainment, and social networking. -
Texting (SMS Messaging)
Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK (now Airwide Solutions), used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis who was at a party. Texting is a very prominent communication form today, as it allows fast and direct messaging between people, that is why mobile devices have apps for this purpose. -
Graphical Web Browser
The Mosaic web browser is released. Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet. -
Macintosh
Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphical user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Macintosh included many features at an affordable price of $2,500. -
Bluetooth
Was invented by a group of engineers at Ericsson, mobile devices started applying it in their systems, allowing more gadgets to be connected to one another and to have accesibility. -
Amazon
It is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. -
Smartphone
The IBM Simon was the first ever mobile phone to feature software applications, or apps, using a stylus and touch screen. The Simon cost $899 and only ever worked in the USA, operating within a 15 state network. The first cellphone marketed as a "smartphone" though was the Ericsson R380. It was a groundbreaking device since it was as small and light as a normal mobile phone, and was the first device to use the new Symbian OS. -
Yahoo!
Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. It is the third most popular search engine, after Google and Bing. -
Google
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Nowadays, Google is the most used, the best and most popular search engine in the world. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in California. -
Camera Phone
The first cell phone with a built-in camera was manufactured by Samsung and released in South Korea in June of 2000. New phones with cameras started being released in the market, and overpowered the popularity of digital cameras quickly. In fact, 90% of the people nowadays have only taken a picture using one of these devices. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it. It is a special type of website designed to make collaboration easy, called a wiki. All the content on it is free, making it extremely accessible through the internet. -
iPod
It was invented by Steve Jobs. It was not the first Mp3-type device, but it was the best; it was easy to carry and to use and was affordable, making it a breakthrough invention that tossed away CDs and older music-playing devices. -
Samsung SGH-T100
It was the first phone ever to use a thin-film transistor active matrix LCD display. -
Blackberry Quark
The Blackberry 'Quark' family of smartphones was the first to offer integrated voice calling. Before this device, owners had to attach a wired headset to make calls. -
Skype
Was invented by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennströmfrom Sweden. Skype changed the world we communicate because it is a free patform and you can call people form all over the world. -
Facebook
It was invented by Mark Zuckerberg and even though it is not the first social media it is the most successful one and led to the creation of many other social media apps. -
Youtube
Is the worlds most popular video-sharing website, was created by three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. -
Google Maps
Google Maps forever changed the way people travel. The GPS had been invented in the early 2000's but was fairly expensive, Google Maps was and is free. By typing in a location and a destination each user is given step by step directions to wherever they want to go. Later in 2005 Google added public transportation directions which allowed users to access directions using buses, subways, and trains. -
Twitter
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets," restricted to 140 characters. As of 2016, 317 million people used the platform actively, making it a very popular social media. -
MacBook
The PC, that runs by Apple´s own software, has become really popular (4th most popular PC) dues to its ease of use, its connection to the increasingly popular iPhone and other apple products and its cool hardware with modern design. -
iPhone
The launch of Apple’s iPhone propelled smartphones into the mainstream, thanks to device’s attractive design and intuitive user interface. It was the first commercial smartphone to use finger input as its main means of interaction, instead of a stylus, keyboard or keypad. It was also extremely successful because of its easy format and the huge array of apps that came along with it. -
Kindle
The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. -
Android
This software stack for handheld devices that features an operating system, middleware and key applications was developed by Google Inc. Today Android is the most popular operating system for smartphones. -
iPad
On January 27th, 2010 Apple launched the first IPad and revolutionized the mobile history forever. The fact that it counted with useful apps and a light size, made it a preferred item among people. The popularity of the IPad urged other companies to design their own tablet version, and ended with the discontinuation of netbooks, compact mobile computers that had been very popular since 2007 -
Samsung Galaxy S
The Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphone was first device of the third Android smartphone series produced by Samsung, and the first major competitor to Apple's iPhone. -
iPhone 5S
Apple's iPhone 5s was the best selling phone of 2013. It was the first in the line to include a fingerprint recognition system built directly into the home button which can be used to unlock the phone and authenticate App Store and iTunes Store purchases. -
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch allows the user to check messages, e-mails, and a multitude of other things in a small and portable manner. It is essentially a replacement for a phone all together. Changing how we communicate with one another and simplifying something that's already non-complex to an even smaller scale. This Apple´s invention took the mainstream by storm.
