Technological Advances

By robpo4
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    Timeline of Transport and communications advancements.

  • Ferdinand Von Zeppelin launches first zeppelin

    The first airship made its flight in 1900 seting the way for a new mode of air transport.

  • First flight

    The wright brothers make the first flight successful motor driven flight, this event set the way for thousands of different types of aircraft all the way up to the most modern aircraft the eurofighter typhoon.

  • First automated assembly Line.

    Henry ford builds the first automated assembly line which is used to build the newly introduce Ford Model T which the assembly line was built for.

  • V2 rocket

    the V2 rocket travelled 200km to Britain to devastate our cities.

  • Full scale television Broadcasting begins.

    This is when tv broadcasting was spread to the entire country.

  • First nuclear powered vessel

    The first nuclear powered vessel the USS nautilus was also the first submarine to reach the north pole submerged. Because of the nuclear power it allows her to stay submerged much longer.

  • First geosynchronous communications satellite

    First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article.

  • First manned moon landing

    Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that landed the first humans on the moon in 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot onto the moon.

  • First mobile phone call

    First mobile phone call
    On 3 April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.

  • Concorde makes first passenger supersonic flight

    The concorde was turbojet powered supersonic passenger airliner the concorde started service in 1976 and continued flying for 27 years, before a fatal accident after which they were forced to retire from service.

  • First flight of the space shuttle

    The space shuttle was a crewed partially reusable space low earth orbital spacecraft. The first of 4 orbital flights was made on the 12th of aprile 1981.

  • Analog cellular networks – 1G

    On 6 March 1983, the DynaTAC mobile phone launched on the first US 1G network by Ameritech. It cost $100m to develop, and took over a decade to reach the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

  • Digital Mobile phone networks. 2G

    Digital Mobile phone networks. 2G
    In the 1990s, the 'second generation' mobile phone systems emerged. Two systems competed for supremacy in the global market: the European developed GSM standard and the U.S. developed CDMA standard. These differed from the previous generation by using digital instead of analog transmission, and also fast out-of-band phone-to-network signaling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

  • Fibre Optic Communication

    Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second.

  • First SMS

    Neil Papworth Sent the First SMS (text message)

  • The Channel Tunnel

    The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5 kilometer rail tunnel that links Folkestone Kent in the UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais near Calais in northern France. The tunnel goes beneath the English Channel at the strait of Dover, at its lowest point it is 75m deep.

  • Internet Radio

    The internet radio was born in 1994.

  • Sirius Satellite launched

    The sirius satellite allowed people to use satellite radio.

  • Mobile broadband data – 3G

    As 2G phones became more and more widespread in their use and people began to use mobile phones in daily life it became obvious to some companies that the demand for internet access ie data was growing and was starting to strain 2G, and so came the release of the new network 3G.

  • Maglev High speed train

    Maglev High speed train
    The first High speed maglev train was built and put into operation in China between the Shanghai Pudong International airport and Pudong to allow people to swag over to the Shanghai Metro to allow them to get into the City center. It is now the fastest train in the world as it can reach 431KM/H (268MPH).

  • Youtube the video sharing website is launched

    Youtube which is now a video phenomenon with trillions of videos was launched in 2005.