Date Invention or discovery Articles on Explain that stuff Prehistory 4–5 billion years ago Sun starts to produce energy. Solar cellsEnergy 10 million years ago. Humans make the first tools from stone, wood, antlers, and bones. Tools and machines 1–2 million years ago Humans discover fire. BiofuelsCandlesCar enginesJet engines 25,000– […]
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History of Technology Timeline | Britannica
History of Technology Timeline | Britannica © Kran Kanthawong/Dreamstime.com 3.3 million years ago: The first toolsThe history of technology begins even before the beginning of our own species. Sharp flakes of stone used as knives and larger unshaped stones used as hammers and anvils have been uncovered at Lake Turkana […]
History of Computers – A Brief Timeline of Their Evolution
The computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get […]
Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web
Credit for the initial concept that developed into the World Wide Web is typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In 1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, in a paper entitled “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets.” Kleinrock, along with other innnovators such as J.C.R. Licklider, the first […]