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10,000 BCE
Fire
Discovered and domesticated for being able to use it in different activities such as heating and warming.
Method: well by friction, rubbing a rod-shaped wood - approximately one centimeter in diameter (Was created in 500,000b.c. but the app doesn´t let us to put that year) -
4500 BCE
The wheel
Where simple discs with a hole in the middle, its main use was for the art of pottery.
Method: the first wheel is supposed to have been invented after humans used cylindrical tree trunks to move things that were heavy -
1440
The prees
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg.
This advance was not only a revolution when it comes to copying texts, but also meant a revolution in the transmission of ideas.
Method: the periodical press was born with "the need to disseminate the principles that served as the basis for the revolution, and as an instrument to the new governments" -
Sep 8, 1543
The heliocentric mode
, Nicolaus Copernicus, he was a Polish astronomer that
introduced the idea that the sun was the center of our solar system. This allowed
us, besides understanding that the earth rotates around the sun, to realize that our
planet also revolves on its own axis.
Method:Nicolaus Copernicus proposed a model of the universe where the earth,
planets and stars revolved around the sun and there he discovered that helium in
Greek means sun, while heliocentric means that the sun is in the center -
Law of gravity
Issac Newton, Newton's law of gravitation features in Coulomb's
law about electrical forces, that is used to calculate the magnitude of the electrical
force rising between two charged bodies.
Method: Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when suddenly an apple fell on his
head, he immediately investigated why it happened and how it happened and
thus the law of gravity was discovered -
The speed of light
Ole Romer, was a Danish astronomer, and he was the first
person to determine the speed of light, that had an initial value of 225,000 km / s.
Method: Ole Romer determined that light moves at 301,000 kilometers per second,
he investigated and made calculations and discovered the speed of light that he
observed and the displacement of the Earth around the Sun -
Computer
English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage
first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine.
Method: Electromechanical in operation and using relays, it was programmable (by means of perforated tape) and used binary system and Boolean logic. -
The chromosome
Oswald Avery proved that DNA is the genetic material of the
chromosome.
Method: Oswald Avery discovered the chromosomes by observing the nucleus of
plant cells through his telescope, he did a very deep investigation and thus
discovered that what the plant cells contained were chromosomes -
Men Land on the Moon
Astronauts Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on
the Moon.
Method: They were going to visit space to find out what was there but they did
not count on that they were going to land on a round and shiny rocky surface,
they excited by their discovery they told everyone, they gave it the name moon,
since moon in latin means illuminated -
Internet
Developed as a military project of the US during the Cold War.
Method: The Internet was created to obtain a decentralized set of communication networks.