Timeline COM310K Mspel

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  • 4000 BCE

    The Wheel

    The Wheel
    The wheel was invented and used in Mesopotamia in 4000 BC.
  • 3390 BCE

    first recorded cutting tool (Ethiopia)

    first recorded cutting tool (Ethiopia)
    chert is used as a sharp tool to be used for cutting various things, or scraping meat from bones.
    (It was developed in 3,390,000 BC but that is outside of the time range)
  • 3300 BCE

    Anvils

    Anvils
    Anvils, stone flakes and cores were developed and used in Kenya. (It really was 3.3 million BC)
  • 3200 BCE

    Writing

    Writing
    Written texts were developed in Egypt around 3200 BC.
  • 1600 BCE

    Hand Axes

    Hand Axes
    Hand axes were developed in Ethiopia 1,600,000 BC
  • 1300 BCE

    Iron Smelting

    Iron Smelting
    Hittites found iron ore to make spearheads, tools and other devices in Anatolia around 1300 BC. Here is a link to a youtube video describing iron smelting from this time and about the origins of iron ore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=AUn6LzakHsM
  • 1200 BCE

    Controlled fire

    Controlled fire
    The use of controlled fire was discovered 1.2 million years ago BC in China.
  • 850

    Gunpowder

    Gunpowder
    Gunpowder was invented in China for medicinal purposes around 850 AD.
  • 1436

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    German goldsmith, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1436 for the the mass production of printed text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers

  • Trains

    Trains
    The first working railway steam train was built in England in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer.

  • First Telephone

    First Telephone
    On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the telephone

  • Car

    Car
    invented in 1886 when German inventor Carl Benz on January 29, 1886

  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made its first successful flight on December 17, 1903

  • TV

    TV
    Philo Farnsworth invented the first television system in San Francisco on September 7, 1927.

  • AI

    AI
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short-history-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/ John McCarthy develops a programming language which later becomes the most popular programming language used in artificial intelligence research.

  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    The Kenbak-1 released in 1971, which is the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker.

  • Internet goes public

    Internet goes public
    The World Wide Web became available to the broader public on April 30, 1993.

  • Iphones

    Iphones
    Apple's first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007.

  • Siri

    Siri
    Siri, an AI voice assistant is released in 2011.

  • Autopilot

    Autopilot
    Tesla's self-driving autopilot mode is released for Tesla vehicles.

  • Quantam Computing

    Quantam Computing
    Quantum processors can draw conclusions about one particle by measuring another one, aka, quantum computers are machines that use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computations. It was first implemented in 2022.

  • AI Robots

    AI Robots
    AI robots will become self aware that they are robots and will revolt in hopes of killing us all.