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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