strand two technological advances
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Strand Two Technological Advances. 1900 - 1910. The Assembly Line - Ransom E. Olds -1901 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/olds.htm http://www.answers.com/topic/olds-ransom-eli http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/himfordassembly.htm First Airplane Flight – Wright Brothers – 1903 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Strand TwoTechnological Advances
1900 - 1910
The Assembly Line - Ransom E. Olds -1901 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/olds.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/olds-ransom-eli http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/himfordassembly.htm
First Airplane Flight – Wright Brothers – 1903 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/taleplane.html#1903
1910 - 1920
Edwin Armstrong – superhetrodyne tuner - 1913 http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventors/a/Armstrong.htm
http://users.erols.com/oldradio/
Air-to-ground/ground-to-air radio transmission – 1917 http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/17air.html
1920-1930
John Logie Baird – First working television http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=bairdjohnl
http://www.bairdtelevision.com/
Edwin Hubble – Hubble’s Law – 1929 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/strange/html/hubble.html
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/redshift.html
1930 - 1940
Robert Watson-Watt – Radar – 1939 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/robert_watson_watt.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/058/000206437/
Chester Carlton – Xerography machine – 1938 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/xerography.htm
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/carbons/copiers.html
1940-1950
Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain– transistor - 1947
http://www.velocitygcuide.com/computer-history/first-transistor.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/lecuyer/index.html
Konrad Zuse – first digital computer – 1941 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
http://www.epemag.com/zuse/
1950 - 1960
Sergei Korolev –Sputnik, first artificial satellite -1957 http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sputnik.html
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/sputnik.html
Charles Ginsburg – First Video Tape Recorder – 1951 http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm
John Backus – FORTRAN – computer language –1954 http://inventors.about.com/od/computersoftware/a/Fortran.htm
“You need the willingness to fail all the time,” he said. “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work “ (Backus, 2007).
1960 - 1970
Douglas Engelbart – first computer mouse http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPJZ6M52dI
Arpanet – first internet invented – 1969 http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventednet.html
Robert Dennard – Random Access Memory (RAM) – 1967 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/dennard.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventors/a/DRAM.htm
1970 - 1980Robert Baer–Magnovox Odyssey, first video game console - 1972
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/33159-rise-of-the-videogame-ralph-baer-video.htm
http://www.thegameconsole.com/
Michael Shayer –First word processor,“The electric pencil”-1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/manuals/electric-pencil/
1980 – 1990First city wide mobile network, Nordic Mobile Telephone Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/
Sony – first compact disc player – 1982 http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-20/h5.html
1990 - 2000Tim Berners-Lee – internet language, HTTP-1991 http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
http://info.cern.ch/
Saehan Information Systems - first MP3 player - 1997http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlongl ast.com/first168.html
2000 - 2010
Linden Lab – Second Life, virtual world http://lindenlab.com/
http://secondlife.com/
FDA approved artificial heart – 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbioCor http://topnews.us/content/25775-first-artificial-heart-implanted-
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