Music & Pop Culture
Evolution of Technology
From 1900's to 1920's
Inventions:
- Automobile
- Biplane
- Phonograph
- Battery
- Zeppelin
- Radio
- Air Conditioner
- Zipper
- Stainless Steel
- Toaster
- Army Tank
- First BBC Broadcast
- Frozen Food
- Jukebox
- Electric Razor
- First Color TV
People and discover:
- Nikola Tesla: Alternating current, Tesla Coin, induction motor
- Albert Einstein: Relativity theories, photoelectronic effect, unified field theory
- Marie & Pierre Curie: Radioactivity
- Wilhelm Röntgen: X-Ray
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1930's 1940's: WWII and post-war
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First color sound cartoon: Flip the frog in Fiddlesticks
Pluto is identified as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
Air mail across the Atlantic Ocean begins.
Radar was invented.
Scotch tape is invented.
Nuclear Fission is discovered.
First electric guitar (frying pan) and bass guitar are invented.
Atanasoff Berry Computer is created. (First computer ever!)
Develop of jet aircraft.
Jeep is created.
Slinky (toy).
Velcro
Tupperware
Frisbee
1950's & 1960's: Revolution!!!
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Television, which first reached the marketplace in the 1940s, attained maturity during the 50s and by the end of the decade, most American households owned a TV set.
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The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth on October 4, 1957.
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The world's first nuclear power plant is opened in Obninsk near Moscow.
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NASA is organized.
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1960 - Laser appeared.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin was the first man sent into outer space.
1962 - First videogame appeared (Spacewar!).
1964 - The Cassette was introduced.
1967 - First heart transplantation.
1969 - Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Neil Amstrong was the first man on the moon.
1969 - Arpanet, the first prototype of internet was introduced.
1970's & 1980's:
1970 - Integrated Circuit and
1971 - Datapoint 2200
1971 - IBMmicroprocessorinventd the first Floppy disk
1971 - First email
1971 - Black Holes were confirmed by Stephen Hawking
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1972 - VCRsbecomesiserradicated
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1972 - Theory of punctuated equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
1972 - Apollo 17 and its astronaut Gene Cernan becomes the last man on the moon.
1973 - First MRI image
1973 - First cell phone
1974 - Skylab
1974 - Lucy fossilized hominid was found.
1977 - First complete DNA genome is sequenced
1977 - Apple was founded in California
1978 - Viking 1 on mars
1978 - First Walkman
1979 - Voyager 1 on Jupiter
1979 - SmallpoxMIchael Aldrich invented e-commerce.
1981 - IBM PC
1982 - Commodore 64
1982 - Compact disk is introduced.
1983 - First commercial synthesizer
1984 - Apple introduced the GUI (graphical user interface) and mouse in Apple II and Lisa.
1986 - First surrogate pregnancy
1987 - Amiga 500 was introduced
1988 - First genetically modified crops (tobacco plants)
1990's & 2000's:
1990 - Microsoft 3.0
1991 - World Wide Web is born.
1991 - Development of the free Linux
1992 - First Pentium microprocessor
1994 - Eurostar-Channel Tunnel
1995 - Instant messaging became popular. AIM and ICQ
1995 - Pagers were popular, but disappeared with smartphones
1996 - E-commerce appeared: Amazon and eBay.
1996 - First MP3 player: MPMan
1997 - CD-Roms and CD burners appeared.
1997 - First clone mammal: Dolly the sheep.
1998 - First IMac appeared.
1998 - Microsoft bought Hotmail service.
1998 - The International Space Station was built.
1998 - Google is founded.
1999 - Y2K problem
1999 - Mac OS X Server 1.0
2001 - ipod appeared
2004 - Gmail appeared
2004 - MER (Mars Exploration Rover) reached the surface of Mars.
2004 - Facebook appeared.
2005 - Youtube appeared. (first video)
2005 - Peer to peer became the most popular way to share files.
2006 - Wi-Fi technology reached home.
2006 - Twitter appeared.
2007 - Iphone appeared.
