Discoveries in the World

The world of the apes

The fire They had to discover how

to use it The use of chert Protect it

The wheel

Used in carrying, wars Human knew it about 5500

years ago Its ancestor was the carriage

or sleigh First findings from

Mesopotamia

The gunpowder

From China, 800 B.C. First just for fireworks and

rockets Muslims used it for shoot The producing in Europe just

in the 14th century

The Hungarians from 700 to 950

Good strategists Some new inventions in

strategy A new kind of bow Stirrup on the horses

A new continent

Social, industrial reasons New ideas in geography 1492, Christopher Columbus Wanted to reach India Amerigo Vespucci

Australia

15th century: Chinese travellers

1500- 1600: Spanish, Portugese and Dutch ships

1770: James Cook took control on the continent

Convict colony, than part of the British Empire

1901, freedom and developing

‘Spinning Jenny’

Industrial Revolution 1764, James Hargreaves Big developing in machine

manufacturing Steam-engines These were the basics for the

industrialization

The atom bomb

Experiments in the WWII American, Italian, English,

Hungarian scientists Hydrogen, uranium, plutonium

bombs The USA and the Soviet Union

also had it Hiroshima, Nagasaki

The Moon

In the bipolar world there was a space technology contest too

21th July 1969, Apollo 11,Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins

True or hoax?

What about the future?Possibilities are endless…