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Period: 4000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Bronze age
In the Bronze Age they were many changes on the technology because of the Neolithic Revolution. The humans started to use bronze tools but they followed using stone tools because they were more abundant that the metal ones. -
3000 BCE
The wheel
The first historical clues about the wheel were from the mesopotamic civilization. it is a circle of clay with a hole in its center. -
2500 BCE
The money
In Mesopotamia, the humans near the year 2.500 b.C cease using the exchange and they start to use precious metal to get things. -
2000 BCE
The door lock
The egipcians were the first using the lock, before that they difficult knots were a good option. -
Period: 2000 BCE to 476
Post-classical history
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1300 BCE
The clock
The first clocks in the history were made by the egipcians, using the light of the sun. Then came the sand clocks, the water clocks and the mechanical clocks. The first mechanical clock was made in Milan in the year 1355. -
105 BCE
The paper
The paper was invented in China, using silk fibers, rice straws and hemp. The paper it was a chinese secret for a lot of years. -
190
The abacus
The first documented use from the abacus was in the chinese Dinasty Han and it was for a lot of year the best tool for calculating. -
Period: 476 to 1453
The middle age
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1190
The compass
The sailors were forced tu use natural referencies or maps and they often feel lost. But chinese and european sailor found a magnetic mineral that went on with the North Pole and they soon started to use it. -
1440
The printing machine
In 1440 was when the printng machine invention was assigned to the german Johannes Gutenberg, after a long battle between italian, german, dutch and french inventors. -
Period: 1453 to
Early modern period
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The microscope
Zacharias Janssen, a dutch glasses builder, created the first microscope, but by that time it was a curiosity more tha a progress for science. -
The binoculars
It's difficult to assign the binoculars to a especific inventor for this object but the first patent was in October of 1608 -
Period: to
Late modern period
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The battery
The electricity couldn't control appropiately until the battery was created. In 1800 Alexandro Volta invented the first batteries, which had industrial and domestic uses. -
The telephone
Graham Bell wasn't the inventor of the telephone like eveyone thinks it. The real inventor of the phone was Antonio Meucci but Alexander patented it for first. -
The fridge
In 1834 arised the first ideas to create a machine for keep the food in a good state. In 1867 Charles Tellier invented a machine to create ice and finally in 1876 he invented the first refridgerator. -
The bulb
Thomas Alva Edison was the first person who achieved creating a light without the use of fire. Many people tried it before him but no one could got it. -
The photography
The first Kodak camera appeared in 1888 by George Eastman. Then in 1907 appeared the colour photography and in 1948 the first instant cameras. -
The TV
THe first time the TV appeared was in London, in 1924 by John Logie Baird but the project was abandonated soon. But in the autumm of 1927 Philo Taylor presented the very first prototype of TV. -
The penicillin
The penicillin was a very important invention for the humanity because of its multiple uses for the medicine. This invention got the Nobel for Alexander Fleming. -
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Contemporary history
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Velcro
George de Mestral developed the velcro to remove the thistle plants from her pants and his dog's hair. It's a very important invension and it has been used in many clothes. -
The Internet
The first internet conexion arised in the 21 of November of 1969 and it linked the UCLA and the Stanford university. -
TCP/IP
Is the protocol for the ICT:
