World History – Periodization Technology Timeline

  • 868

    Block printing

    Chinese people used blocks with different writings and dipped it in ink and pasted it onto something.
  • 1436

    Printing press

    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink.
  • Photographs

    French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home.
  • Telegraph

    Any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance.
  • Silent movies

    A silent film is a film with no accompanying, synchronized recorded spoken dialogue
  • Telephone

    Telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly
  • First Wireless Communication

    Wireless telegraph system using radio waves, which had been known about since proof of their existence in 1888 by Heinrich Hertz
  • Radio

    Radio is sound communication by radio waves, usually through the transmission of music, news, and other types of programs from single broadcast stations to multitudes of individual listeners equipped with radio receivers
  • Color Movies

    With color motion picture film, information about the color of the light at each image point is also captured.
  • Movies with sound

    First invented by a Jazz singer
  • Recording on tape

    Pfleumer built the first magnetic tape device with which the tapes could be played
  • Paperback books

  • First Computer

    The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room
  • Autonomous Vehicles

    General Motors created the first self-driving car model
  • Color TV

    the research staff of RCA Laboratories invented the world's first electronic, color television system. A successful color television system based on a system designed by RCA began commercial broadcasting
  • Cable TV

    any system that distributes television signals by means of coaxial or fibre-optic cables
  • Transistor Radios

    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Stanford's John McCarthy, seminal figure of artificial intelligence, dies at 84. McCarthy created the term "artificial intelligence" and was a towering figure in computer science at Stanford most of his professional life
  • 1st Satellite

    The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, shocking the American public and beginning the Space Age.
  • Laser printers

    A laser printer is a popular type of personal computer printer that uses a non-impact
  • VCR

    Device that uses videocassettes for recording and playing back videotapes.
  • Cellular phones

    The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first handheld cellular phone that allowed people to make longer distance calls than just a landline phone.
  • Apple ll computer

    8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products.
  • GPS

    Made to help people get around to places that they have never been.
  • Email

    email was invented by a 14-year-old working in Newark and made it able to talk to other with computer massages.
  • 3D printing

    came up with a layer-by-layer approach for manufacturing, using a photosensitive resin that was polymerized by UV light.
  • Internet

    Its a global system of interconnected computer networks.
  • DVD player

    a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards
  • MP3 player

    A small device for playing music
  • YouTube

    A app where you can watch videos other people make.
  • IPhone

    The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple that combines a computer, iPod, digital camera and cellular phone into one device with a touchscreen interface
  • IPad

    a tablet computer developed by Apple