Toffler's Wave Theory Timeline

1st Wave: Agriculutral Age

Jan 1, 1600

http://wavesofthefuture.net/first-wave-neolithic-new-stone-age-agricultural-revolution-renewable-energy-powered-pre-global-warming-and-fossil-fuel-era.phpThe first wave began about 10,000 years ago as nomadic hunters and gatherers populated the planet. People lived in large families and began settling, domesticating animals, and herding cattle. With the development of tools the Agricultuarl Age began.

1st Wave: Agricultural Age

Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Jan 1, 1750

The first wave began about 10,000 years ago as nomadic hunters and gatherers populated the planet. People lived in large families and began settling, domesticating animals, and herding cattle. With the development of tools the Agricultuarl Age began.

2nd Wave: Industrial Age

Jan 1, 1750

http://wavesofthefuture.net/second-wave-industrial-revolution-economic-growth-expansion-unemployment-fossil-fuel-powered-era-global-warming-and-carbon-emission-beginning.phpThe second wave included what we call the Industiral Revolution. It was a time when people moved into large cities, standardized materials were created and mass production became a reality.

2nd Wave: Industrial Age

Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1950

The second wave included what we call the Industiral Revolution. It was a time when people moved into large cities, standardized materials were created and mass production became a reality.

1900-1909 Dewey

Jan 1, 1900

http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol1/dewey.html
Dewey sets up an experimental elementary school.

1900-1909 Battery

Jan 1, 1901

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlThomas Edison creates the first battery.

1900-1909 Polygraph

Jan 1, 1902

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth.htmLie detector, or polygraph machine, was invented by James Mackenzie

1900-1909 Movie

Jan 1, 1903

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst movie appears. The first projection film with a plot is played when the 10 minute movie "The Great Train Robbery" is released.

1900-1909 Wright Brothers

Dec 17, 1903

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html Wright Brothers complete their first airplane flight.

1900-1909 Montessori

Jan 1, 1907

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade00.htmlhttp://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade00.html Maria Montessori began teaching students through self exploration and discovery.

1900-1909 Model T

Jan 1, 1908

Model T first sold.

1900-1909 Assembly Line

Jan 1, 1908

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htmHenry Ford's invention of the assembly line changes the world.

1910-1919 Boy Scouts

Jan 1, 1910

http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1910timeline.htmBoy Scouts established.

1910-1919 AT&T

Jan 1, 1911

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html AT&T takes control of Western Union Telegraph Company.

1910-1919 Pyrex

Mar 2, 1915

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_2.htmEugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invent Pyrex.

1910-1919 Enigma

Jan 1, 1916

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlEnigma machine created to encode messages at the end of WW1

1910-1019 IQ Testing

Jan 1, 1916

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html Louis M. Terman and his team of Stanford University graduate students complete an American version of the Binet-Simon Scale. The Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Scale becomes a widely-used individual intelligence test, and along with it, the concept of the intelligence quotient (or IQ) is born.

1910-1919 Progressive Education

Jan 1, 1916

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html John Dewey's Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is published.

1910-1919 CTR to IBM

Jan 1, 1917

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlThe Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company enters the Canadian market under the name of International Business Machines Co., Limited.

1910-1019 radio circuit

Jan 1, 1918

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_2.htmEdwin Howard Armstrong invented the superheterodyne radio circuit which is inside of every TV and radio currently used.

1920-1929 Insulin

Jan 1, 1922

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htmInsulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.

1920-1929 Council for Exceptional Children

Jan 1, 1922

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlThe International Council for Exceptional Children is founded at Columbia University Teachers College.

1920-1929 TV

Oct 3, 1922

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst successful test of a television broadcast using a Naval Station to broadcast.

1920-1929 Scanner

Jan 1, 1926

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlRobert S. Ledley invented the first scanner. It was used to create x-ray scans for medical research.

1920-1929 Rockets

Jan 1, 1926

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htmRobert H. Goddard invents liquid fueled rockets.

1920-1929 SAT

Jan 1, 1926

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first administered.

1920-1929 Penicillin

Jan 1, 1928

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

1920-1929 Razor

Jan 1, 1928

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htmJacob Schick patented the electric shaver.

1920-1929 Depression

Oct 2, 1929

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlThe Great Depression begins with the stock market crash

1930-1939 Clock

Jan 1, 1930

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst quartz clok invented

1930-1939 Frozen Food

Jan 1, 1930

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_4.htm The frozen food process is patented by Clarence Birdseye.

1930-1939 Dick and Jane

Jan 1, 1931

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.htmlDick and Jane books first published.

1930-1939 Nylon

Jan 1, 1935

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_4.htm Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon.

1930-1939 Heart Lung Machine

May 10, 1935

http://perfline.com/textbook/local/mvinas_chronol.htm Dr. John H. Gibbon, Jr., first successful application of the heart-lung machine for extracorporeal circulation in an animal (cat).

1930-1939 Blood Bank

Jan 1, 1937

http://perfline.com/textbook/local/mvinas_chronol.htm Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago using a 2% solution of sodium citrate. Refrigerated blood lasted ten days.

1930-1939 TV Debut

Jan 1, 1939

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst TV debuts at World's Fair

1930-1939 Transportation

Jan 1, 1939

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlFrank W. Cyr, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, organizes a national conference on student transportation. It results in the adoption of standards for the nation's school buses, including the shade of yellow.

1940-1949 Emergency Radios

Jan 1, 1940

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The first mobile phone technology becomes available with police and emergency radios.

1940-1949 Harvard Mark 1

Jan 1, 1943

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The first electrical computer is introduced. Howard Aiken and IBM developed the first fully automatic 'electro-mechanical' machine capable of not only addition, but other functions such as multiplication, and trig functions as well. The machine was known as the "Harvard Mark I".

1940-1949 Kidney Dialysis

Jan 1, 1944

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_5.htm The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.

1940-1949 Atom Bomb

Aug 6, 1945

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The first Atomic Bomb is exploded on Hiroshima Japan.

1940-1949 Segregation

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html In the landmark court case of Mendez vs. Westminster and the California Board of Education, the U. S. District Court in Los Angeles rules that educating children of Mexican descent in separate facilities is unconstitutional, thus prohibiting segregation in California schools.

1940-1949 Dale's Cone

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html Edgar Dale shares his "Cone of Experience" that visually shows teaching methods and materials

1940-1949 Cable TV

Jan 1, 1948

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html Cable TV is born. CATV (Community Antenna Television) is developed in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

1940-1949 Velcro

Jan 1, 1948

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_5.htmVelcro ® invented by George de Mestral.

3rd Wave: Information Age

Jan 1, 1950

http://wavesofthefuture.net/third-wave-toffler-information-age-opec-fossil-fuel-and-energy-crisis-oil-price-increases-decline-of-industrial-power-unemployment.phpThe third wave ushered in a plethora of information.This was a time when people were expermenting with new technologies and accessing information, not all accurate. There is more information available then people are able to process so new technologies to organize information began to appear.

3rd Wave: Information Age

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 2000

The third wave ushered in a plethora of information.This was a time when people were expermenting with new technologies and accessing information, not all accurate. There is more information available then people are able to process so new technologies to organize information began to appear.

1950-1959 Videotape

Jan 1, 1951

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst video tape is recorded at Bing Crosby studios in California.

1950-1959 Bar Codes

Jan 1, 1952

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern.htm The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.

1950-1959 Skinner

Jan 1, 1953

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlB.R. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior is published. His form of behaviorism (operant conditioning), which emphasizes changes in behavior due to reinforcement, becomes widely accepted and influences many aspects of American education.

1950-1959 Birth Control

Jan 1, 1954

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern.htmOral contraceptives invented.

1950-1959 Rosa Parks

Jan 1, 1955

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlRosa Parks, a Montgomery, Alabama seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus a Caucasian passenger and is subsequently arrested and fined. The Montgomery bus boycott follows, giving impetus to the Civil Rights Movement. A year later, in the case of Browder v. Gale, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregated seating on buses unconstitutional.

1950-1959 Dot Matrix Printer

Jan 1, 1957

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html IBM debuts the first computer 'printer'. A dot-matrix printer.

1950-1959 Sputnik

Jan 1, 1957

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The USSR launched its first space ship called Sputnik.

1950-1959 NASA

Jan 1, 1958

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlNASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is founded.

1950-1959 Integrated circuit

Jan 1, 1958

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html Jack St. Clair Kilby of Texas Instruments invented the first "integrated circuit" or "chip". a.

1950-1959 Integrated Curcuit

Jan 1, 1958

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern.htm The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.

1950-1959 Pacemaker

Jan 1, 1959

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern.htmThe internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.

1950-1959 ACT

Jan 1, 1959

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html The ACT Test is first administered.

1960-1969 Space

May 5, 1961

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to fly into space.

1960-1969 Color TV

Jan 1, 1962

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html Color Television becomes available. By the fall of 1964, NBC was broadcasting the majority of its programs in color.

1960-1969 Learning Disabilities

Jan 1, 1963

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlSamuel A. Kirk uses the term "learning disability" at a Chicago conference on children with perceptual disorders. The term sticks, and in 1964, the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, now the Learning Disabilities Association of America, is formed. Today, nearly one-half of all students in the U.S. who receive special education have been identified as having learning disabilities.

1960-1969 Contact Lenses

Jan 1, 1965

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_2.htmSoft contact lenses invented.

1960-1969 Substitute Lung

Jan 1, 1965

http://perfline.com/textbook/local/mvinas_chronol.htmRaskkind developed a low volume disposable pumpless bubble oxygenator for use as a substitute lung on children with cystic fibrosis, RDS, and CHD.

1960-1969 Video Game

Jan 1, 1966

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlRalph Baer begins work on the first video game.

1960-1969 Internet

Jan 1, 1969

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The DoD (Department of Defense) developed ARPANET. They used this technology to allow various computers within different sections of the military and government that work on different systems to share information with one another. This is the first network. By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET. These computers were located at 4 colleges: UCLA, Stanford, University of California, and University of Utah.

1960-1969 Open Classroom

Jan 1, 1969

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlHerbert R. Kohl's book, The Open Classroom, helps to promote open education, an approach emphasizing student-centered classrooms and active, holistic learning. The conservative back-to-the-basics movement of the 1970s begins at least partially as a backlash against open education.

1960-1969 Moon Walk

Jul 20, 1969

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlMan first walks on the moon when astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the lunar surface.

1970-1979 Piaget

Jan 1, 1970

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html Jean Piaget's book, The Science of Education, is published. His Learning Cycle model helps to popularize discovery-based teaching approaches, particularly in the sciences.

1970-1979 Micro-processor

Jan 1, 1971

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html A company named Intel produced the first 'micro-processor' which held its own arithmetic logic unit.

1970-1979 Floppy and Hard Drives

Jan 1, 1973

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html IBM released the 8" floppy drive, and the first permanent storage with its first "Hard Drive."

1970-1979 504 Plans

Jan 1, 1973

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlThe Rehabilitation Act becomes law. Section 504 of this act guarantees civil rights for people with disabilities in the context of federally funded institutions and requires accommodations in schools including participation in programs and activities as well as access to buildings. Today, "504 Plans" are used to provide accommodations for students with disabilities who do not qualify for special education or an IEP.

1970-16979 CAT Scan

Jan 1, 1975

http://perfline.com/textbook/local/mvinas_chronol.htmIntroduction of computerized axial tomography, the "CAT-scanner."

1970-1979 Apple

Apr 1, 1976

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlSteve Jobs and Steve Wozniack incorporate the Apple computer company.

1970-1979 Microsoft

Nov 1, 1976

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The tradename "Microsoft" is registered, and in December Bill Gates drops out of Harvard.

1970-1979 Cell Phone

Jan 1, 1977

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlAT&T completes it prototype of cell phone technology.

1970-1979 Star Wars

Jan 1, 1977

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The movie "Star Wars" is released, revealing special effects, and film technology never before seen by the general public.

1970-1979 Artificial Heart

Jan 1, 1978

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_3.htmThe artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.

1980-1989 Vaccine

Jan 1, 1980

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_4.htmThe hepatitis-B vaccine invented.

1980-1989 Space Shuttle

Jan 1, 1981

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html NASA launches the first space shuttle.

1980-1989 Personal Computer

Jan 1, 1983

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlIBM releases the IBM XT which sports a new 8086 16-bit processor and the ability to add the 8087 math co-processor.

1980-1989 HIV

Jan 1, 1983

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

1980-1989 A Nation at Risk

Jan 1, 1983

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlThe report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk, calls for sweeping reforms in public education and teacher training.

1980-1989 Apple Advertising

Jan 1, 1984

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html During the Superbowl, Apple displayed an ad that changed the world of the "computer wars". The ad, promoting the new "Macintosh" computer displayed many black and gray clone like people, dressed like IBM employees, going through life in a bored mindless way, and finishing up the commercial in vivid color of their new "Mac", and saying it was for "The rest of us."

1980-1989 CD-ROM

Jan 1, 1989

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlThe first CD-ROM is developed by Phillips and Sony, CD-I

1990-1999

Jan 1, 1990

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlHubble Space Telescope is launched into space.

1990-1999 WWW

Jan 1, 1991

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html The World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer is seen as the father of the "WWW."

1990-1999 Vaccine

Jan 1, 1992

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htmFirst vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

1990-1999 Constructivist Classrooms

Jan 1, 1993

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlJacqueline and Martin Brooks' In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms is published. It is one many books and articles describing constructivism, a view that learning best occurs through active construction of knowledge rather than its passive reception. Constructivist learning theory, with roots such as the work of Dewey, Bruner, Piaget, and Vygotsky, becomes extremely popular in the 1990s.

1990-1999 Whiteboards

Jan 1, 1994

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlWhiteboards find their way into U.S. classrooms in increasing numbers and begin to replace the blackboard.

1990-1999 Cloning

Jan 1, 1996

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

1990-1999 Apple/Microsoft

Jan 1, 1997

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.html With Apple in deep financial trouble, and Microsoft in court litigation with Apple over copyright laws, Microsoft agrees to purchase 100,000 'non-voting' shares of Apple stock for approximately $150 Million. This keeps Apple out of bankruptcy, and gets Microsoft out of a monopoly lawsuit.

1990-1999 DVD

Jan 1, 1997

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlFirst DVD released

1990-1999 Intel

May 1, 1997

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlIntel releases the Pentium II chip.

4th Wave: Communication Age

Jan 1, 2000

http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/fourthwave.htmlThe fourth wave causes much discussion and differing points of view. Some see it as a merging of economic, social, and religious views, others say it is exploration of space, or improving the environment. I think we've already entered it and it is the need to communicate with others, the constant access of it and the way that has changed the way the average person lives.

4th Wave Prediction: Communication Age

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Mar 2, 2010

The fourth wave causes much discussion and differing points of view. Some see it as a merging of economic, social, and religious views, others say it is exploration of space, or improving the environment. I think we've already entered it and it is the need to communicate with others, the constant access of it and the way that has changed the way the average person lives.

2000-2009 X-box

Jan 1, 2001

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/tech_history.htmlA new generation of video games are released when Microsoft enters the market with X-Box, Sony releases a long awaited Playstation II, and Nintendo releases the Game Cube.

2000-2009 Artificial Liver

Jan 1, 2001

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/ModernInvention.htmArtificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation.

2000-2009 NCLB

Jan 1, 2001

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.htmlThe controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The law, which reauthorizes the ESEA of 1965, holds schools accountable for student achievement levels and provides penalties for schools that do not make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the goals of NCLB.

2000-2009

Sep 11, 2001

Terrorists from Al Queda, 9/11, nearly 3,000 persons die. The US attacks the Taliban and the Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, and a war on terrorism is declared.

200-2009 iPod

Oct 23, 2001

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/ModernInvention.htmApple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod,

2000-2009 SARS

Jan 1, 2002

http://history-timeline.deepthi.com/medical-history-timeline/medical-history-timeline-2001-present.htmlSARS-The first case of an atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.

2000-2009 YouTube

Jan 1, 2005

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/ModernInvention.htmYouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.

2000-2009 Vaccine

Jan 1, 2006

http://history-timeline.deepthi.com/medical-history-timeline/medical-history-timeline-2001-present.htmlFirst vaccine for human papillomavirus

2000-2009 Obama

Jan 1, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/Barrack Obama, first African American to be elected president of the United States.