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History of Technology: Facilitator: David, Melissa M. Diaz, Alexis Dale N

This document provides an outline of the history of technology from antiquity to the modern era. It discusses major technological developments and inventors throughout history, organized into sections on antiquity (Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Chinese, South Americans, Greeks, Romans), the Renaissance (Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo), science (Huygens, Newton, Gutenburg), industry (Watt, Faraday, Edison, Westinghouse), modern era (Goddard, Einstein, Manhattan Project, computer pioneers), and a brief mention of the future. The document aims to chart major advances in technology and the scientists and engineers that drove them.

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History of Technology: Facilitator: David, Melissa M. Diaz, Alexis Dale N

This document provides an outline of the history of technology from antiquity to the modern era. It discusses major technological developments and inventors throughout history, organized into sections on antiquity (Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Chinese, South Americans, Greeks, Romans), the Renaissance (Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo), science (Huygens, Newton, Gutenburg), industry (Watt, Faraday, Edison, Westinghouse), modern era (Goddard, Einstein, Manhattan Project, computer pioneers), and a brief mention of the future. The document aims to chart major advances in technology and the scientists and engineers that drove them.

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History of

Technology

Facilitator:
David, Melissa M.
Diaz, Alexis Dale N.
Outline
 Man’s Technological Quests
 Antiquity
 Renaissance
 Science
 Industry
 Modern Era
 The Future
Man’s Quests
 Fire
 Oceans
 Human Body
 Flight
 Space
 Genetics
 Space-Time-Matter
Antiquity

The Engineers and


Scientists that
Created the Birth in
Technology
Mesopotamians

 Fire
 Native Copper
• 9000 BC
 Wheel
• 3500 BC
 Baghdad Battery
Egyptians

 Smelting Copper
 Bronze Age
 Pyramids
 Hero of Alexandria
 Plow
Chinese

 Great Wall
 Abacus
 Paper
• Cai Lun, 100 AD
 Moveable Type
 Gunpowder
 Mechanical Clock
 Compass
South America

 Nazca Lines
 Tiwanaku
 Machu Pichu
• 9000’ in the Andes
 Qui Pu
Greeks

 Architecture
 Ptholemy
 Archimedes of Syracuse
 Aristotle
Romans

 Roman Roads
• Apian Way
 Aquaducts
• Aqua Appian
 Vitruvious
• Water Clock (150 BC)
• Waterwheel (180 BC)
Renaissance

The Engineers and


Scientists that led to
a “Rebirth” in
Technology
Leonardo daVinci

 Wrote Backwards
 Inventions
• Siege Defenses
• War Scythe
• Multi-Barrel Gun
• Ornithopter
• Tank
• Helicopter
• Airplane Wing
 “Tell me if anything is ever done”
Nicholas Copernicus

 Arts, Law, Medicine, Astronomy


 Geocentric Universe
 Heliocentric Universe
Galileo Galilei

 Physics “Here, a simple tube


and two lenses had
• Isochronous Motion made a rod for beating
the Aristotelian”
• Parabolic Motion Ronan
• Inertia (Newton)
 Thermometer
 Telescope
• Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Milky Way
 Ecclesiatic Trial
Science

The Engineers and


Scientists that laid
the to Scientific
Principles of Today
Christian Huygens
Christian Huygens

 Pendulum Clock
• John Harrison
 Regulating Spiral (1675)
 Theory of Light
Isaac Newton

 Principia (3 books)
• Modern Mechanics
• Celestial Mechanics
• Laws of the Universe
Johannes Gutenburg

 Moveable Type
 Latin Bible
Industry

The Engineers and


Scientists that
Powered the World
Through the
Industrial Revolution
James Watt

 Savery & Newcommen


 Atmosphereic Engine
 Steam Distribution
 Double Acting
 Micrometer (1772)
Michael Faraday

 Principle of Induction
 Electric Motor
 Generator
 Dynamo
The Steel & Oil Magnates

 Henry Bessemer
• “Most Spectacular Sight
Steel Industry”
 Andrew Carneige
• US Steel Corp.
 J.P. Morgan
 Rockefellers
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison

 “The Wizard of Menlo Park”


• Inspiration & Invention
 Stock Ticker
 Incandescent Light Bulb
• Carbonized Sewing Thread
• New Year’s Eve
 Phonograph
• Stock Market Crash
 Kinetescope
 General Electric
George Westinghouse

 Air Brakes
 Battles with Edison
 Wilmerding
 Niagara Falls
• Generators
 NY Subway
 Manhattan Elevated
The Automobile Inovators

 Siegfried Markus
 Gottlieb Daimler
 Karl Benz
 George Seldon
 Henry Ford
The Airplane Inventors

 George Cayley
 Lilienthal & Pilcher
 The Wright Brothers
 Whittle & O’hain
The Great Builders

 Brooklyn Bridge
• Roeblings
• Caissons
• Wire Wrapping
 Panama Canal
• 20 years
• Lake Gatum
• Calebra Cut
Modern Era

The Engineers and


Scientists that Paved
the Way Into the
Future
Rockets to Space

 Robert Goddard
• Liquid-Fueled (1929)
 Werner vonBraun
• V1, V2, V5, Saturn 5
Albert Einstein

 Special Theory (1905)


 General Theory
 Quantum Theory
 Big Bang Theory
• Curved, Finite Space
 Atomic Bomb
• Responsibility of Science
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project

 Oppenheimer
 Fermi, Berthe, Teller
 Four Sites
 Project Trinity
• Los Alamos
• Ground Zero - Alamagordo
 Fat Man & Little Boy
 Treason
The Computer Pioneers

 Charles Babbage
 Hollerith & Watson
 Enigma & Colossus
 John vonNeuman
 Ekert & Mockley
 Shockley, Bardeen &Brattain
 Jack Kilby
 Jobs & Wozniak
 Gates & Allen
The Future

“There is Nothing
More To Invent”

Director, USPTO, 1900


Thomas A. Edison

“Invention is
1% Inspiration and
99% Perspiration”

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