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There are 82 remaining fragments of the mechanism that contain a total of 30 gears. The largest piece contains 27 of the gears. (Image copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project)
100-150 BC
The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered more than 100 years ago in a Roman shipwreck, was used by ancient Greeks to display astronomical cycles.
Arabic Numerals:
Invented around 600AD
Introduced to Europe around 1200AD
(Greatly facilitate computations)
1492
Leonardo Da Vinci describes the flying machine in his notebooks.
1435
The Gutenberg Bible,
(Also known as the 42-line bible, or the Mazarin
Bible)
is the first book printed on a printing press with
movable type.
1609
Galileo Galilei builds the optical refracting telescope.
1623
Wilhelm Schickand engineers the mechanical calculator, which can add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
1712
Thomas Newcomer makes the 1st commercially available steam engine.
1735
Carolus Linneas proposes taxonomic system for naming species. Humans get a new name:
Homo Sapiens.
1822
Mathematician Charles Babbage conceives Difference Engine No.1
(Considered the first mechanical computer)
1840
Ada Lovelace, assistant to Babbage, conceives the first programming language for his computer.
1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1877
Thomas Edison perfects
carbon-thread incandescent
light bulbs
(reconstruction)
1881
Nicola Tesla, electrical engineer and physicist, discovers principles of alternating current, invented numerous devices and procedures that were seminal to development of radio
and harnessing electricity. (Pictured: Tesla Coil)
E=mc2
1905
Albert Einstein publishes special theory of relativity, stating the equivalence of matter and energy in the now famous equation
(above).
Clifford Berry with the Atanasoff-Berry Computer
1939
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry complete prototyep of digital computer: it’s able to store data and do addition and subtraction using
binary code.
1946
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
(ENIAC) one of the world’s 1st electronic computers, delivered to the US Army.
1957
Sputnik I, first man-made satellite, goes up, Laika the dog, first living creature in space, flies aboard Sputnick II.
1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
Arpanet, precursor to the Internet, officially commissioned.
1976 Apple Computer developed by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
1984
William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace” in his novel “Necromancer.”
1989
Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics lab.
1998
Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google.