S.S. Timeline 2013 pms

By munchow12
  • Period: 500 to

    S.S. Timeline

  • May 21, 1200

    Clothing button (Middle Ages)

    In the 1200s, Europe began preferring tight fit clothes and more delicate fabrics. Pins were too inconvenient but the button was just perfect. The Button Makers Guild was founded in France by 1250. Buttons were artistic pieces and social symbols. The aristocrats limited the use of buttons. It was only meant for them.In the following century, button use expanded. Buttonholes covered almost covered the clothes. France was the button capital of Europe and profited a lot from this craze.
  • Aug 26, 1268

    lnvention of eyeglasses. (Middle Ages)

    The first glasses had lenses of quartz, because they could still not make lenses out of glass. The lenses were mounted in bone, metal or leather, often like two small magnifying glasses with an upside-down V in between. The glasses were balanced on the nose, which of course was a problem, since noses have different shapes and sizes. Different solutions to the problem were tried, one way was to use silk ribbons which could be passed around the ears, and in China small weights were hung in the rib
  • Jun 1, 1496

    Invention of the Wallpaper (Renaissance & Reformation)

    In 1496 the first paper mill came into operation in England. Before wallpaper only rich people could decorate their castle.

  • Jigsaw Puzzle (Industral Revolushin)

    Englishmen, John Spilsbury invented the jigsaw puzzle in 1767. Spilsbury was an engraver and mapmaker. The first jigsaw puzzle was a map of the world. Spilsbury attached a map to a piece of wood and then cut out each country. Teachers used Spilsbury's puzzles to teach geography Students learned their geography lessons by putting the world maps back together.

  • Hot Air Balloon (French Revolotion)

    On the 19th September 1783 Pilatre De Rozier, a scientist, launched the first hot air balloon called 'Aerostat Reveillon'. The passengers were a sheep, a duck and a rooster and the balloon stayed in the air for a grand total of 15 minutes before crashing back to the ground.

  • Vaccination (French Revolotion)

    Working as a country doctor in the Gloucestershire village of Berkeley, Edward Jenner is aware of a local theory that people who have suffered a mild form of pox - caught from the infected udders of cows - never catch the much more dangerous smallpox.Cowpox is a relatively rare disease, unrecognized at the time by the medical profession, and it is not until 1796 that Jenner has an opportunity to test this theory of immunity. In that year a dairymaid develops the symptoms. Jenner takes material f

  • Stethoscope (Industral Revolushin)

    The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris.

  • Postage Stamp (World War I)

    The first issued postage stamp began with Great Britain's Penny Post. On May 6, 1840, the British Penny Black stamp was released. The Penny Black was engraved the profile of Queen Victoria's head, who remained on all British stamps for the next sixty years. Rowland Hill created the first stamp.

  • Fax Machine (World War I)

    The first fax machine was invented by Scottish mechanic and inventor Alexander Bain. In 1843, Alexander Bain received a British patent for “improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs”, in laymen's terms a fax machine.

  • Airship (Nationalism & Imperialism)

    The airship successfully flew on the 24th September 1852, launching from the Paris Hippodrome and flying 27km (17 miles) to Elancourt, near Trappes. Because the small engine was not very powerful it could not overcome the prevailing winds to allow Giffard to make the return flight (the top speed of Giffard's airship was just six miles per hour). However, he did manage to turn the airship in slow circles, proving that in calm conditions controled flight was possible.

  • Traffic Lights (Nationalism & Imperialism)

    The son of former slaves, Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877. His early childhood was spent attending school and working on the family farm with his brothers and sisters. While still a teenager, he left Kentucky and moved north to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of opportunity.

  • Hair Dryer (WorldWar II)

    The first hair dryer was invented in 1890 by a French stylist, Alexandre F. Godefrey. His invention was a large, seated version that consisted of a bonnet that attached to the chimney pipe of a gas stove. It was the first hood dryer ever made, and it was run by power cord and a hand crank. Clients would sit underneath the device in his salon and would be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the machine.

  • Ballpoint pens (World War II)

    In June 1943, Biro and his brother Georg, a chemist, took out a new patent with the European Patent Office and made the first commercial models, Biro pens. Later, the British government bought the rights to the patented pens so that the pens could be used by Royal Air Force crews. In addition to being sturdier than conventional fountain pens, ballpoint pens wrote at high altitudes with reduced pressure (conventional fountain pens flooded at high altitudes). Their successful performance for the R