10-06-2016, 10:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2016, 10:34 AM by QwertyYerty.)
For reference, this is the Industrial age (300 years):
1700-1800 - industrial factory system developed
~1730 - Classical tradition in European music (to ~1820)
1775 - first economical steam engine able to provide rotary power
1776 - The Wealth of Nations is published; first use of the phrase "the invisible hand"
1782 - construction of hot air balloon
1795 - metric system adopted in France
1796 - inoculation against smallpox reinvented
1798 — gas lighting first used
1800 — first electrochemical battery for power storage, first muskets with interchangeable parts
1801 — first practical submarine, first device programmable by punch-cards
1807 — first commercially successful steamboat
~1815 - Romantic tradition in European music (to ~ 1910)
1825 - first passenger carrying railway
1831 - experimental demonstration of electromagnetism
1837 — first exhibition of electric telegraph, first fully programmable computer designed (but not built)
1843 - first image transmission over wire (a fax machine, not widely adopted at the time)
1846 — ether used as anaesthetic
1848 — Communist Manifesto issued
1859 — publication of the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin.
1862 — construction of the first automatic gun
1864 — invention of pasteurization
1865 — first successful Atlantic telegraph cable completed, first laws of what will be called genetics
1876 — invention of the telephone
1877 — invention of the phonograph
1885 — first chain-driven bicycles
1885/6 - first internal combustion engine and automobile
1887 — first incandescent electrical lights in production
1894 — invention of the cinematograph
1895 — invention of radio telegraph
1903 - first manned powered heavier than air flight
1905 — Special Theory of Relativity formulated, the term "genetics" is coined
1908 — first mass-produced automobiles
1915 — General Theory of Relativity postulated
~1910 - "Modernist"/Experimental period in European/Western music (to end of Information Age)
1928 — discovery of first antibacterial ('antibiotic')compound
1939 — first helicopter constructed
1942 - Fermi produces first artificial atomic chain reaction
1943 - first electronic programmable computer (Turing et al.)
1945 - first use of atomic weapons
1947 - first practical transistor
1953 - structure of DNA deduced
1957 - first artificial satellite of the Earth is launched (using chemical rocket)
1961 - first human to orbit the Earth
1965 - basics of DNA coding deciphered
1966 — first unmanned moon landings
1966 - the term "sophont" is coined (Poul Anderson)
1969 - first humans to land on the Earth's moon (Start of Tranquility Calendar)
1971 - first microprocessor
1976 - the word "meme" is invented (Richard Dawkins)
1976 - Reputed birth of the original individual (name not recorded) who later became the model for the so-called '.....' spores.
1981 - the term 'toposophy' is coined (Stanislaw Lem)
1984 - first successful 'test tube baby'
1991 - advent of the World Wide Web
1995 - primitive gengineering, cloning of mammalian adults
1700-1800 - industrial factory system developed
~1730 - Classical tradition in European music (to ~1820)
1775 - first economical steam engine able to provide rotary power
1776 - The Wealth of Nations is published; first use of the phrase "the invisible hand"
1782 - construction of hot air balloon
1795 - metric system adopted in France
1796 - inoculation against smallpox reinvented
1798 — gas lighting first used
1800 — first electrochemical battery for power storage, first muskets with interchangeable parts
1801 — first practical submarine, first device programmable by punch-cards
1807 — first commercially successful steamboat
~1815 - Romantic tradition in European music (to ~ 1910)
1825 - first passenger carrying railway
1831 - experimental demonstration of electromagnetism
1837 — first exhibition of electric telegraph, first fully programmable computer designed (but not built)
1843 - first image transmission over wire (a fax machine, not widely adopted at the time)
1846 — ether used as anaesthetic
1848 — Communist Manifesto issued
1859 — publication of the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin.
1862 — construction of the first automatic gun
1864 — invention of pasteurization
1865 — first successful Atlantic telegraph cable completed, first laws of what will be called genetics
1876 — invention of the telephone
1877 — invention of the phonograph
1885 — first chain-driven bicycles
1885/6 - first internal combustion engine and automobile
1887 — first incandescent electrical lights in production
1894 — invention of the cinematograph
1895 — invention of radio telegraph
1903 - first manned powered heavier than air flight
1905 — Special Theory of Relativity formulated, the term "genetics" is coined
1908 — first mass-produced automobiles
1915 — General Theory of Relativity postulated
~1910 - "Modernist"/Experimental period in European/Western music (to end of Information Age)
1928 — discovery of first antibacterial ('antibiotic')compound
1939 — first helicopter constructed
1942 - Fermi produces first artificial atomic chain reaction
1943 - first electronic programmable computer (Turing et al.)
1945 - first use of atomic weapons
1947 - first practical transistor
1953 - structure of DNA deduced
1957 - first artificial satellite of the Earth is launched (using chemical rocket)
1961 - first human to orbit the Earth
1965 - basics of DNA coding deciphered
1966 — first unmanned moon landings
1966 - the term "sophont" is coined (Poul Anderson)
1969 - first humans to land on the Earth's moon (Start of Tranquility Calendar)
1971 - first microprocessor
1976 - the word "meme" is invented (Richard Dawkins)
1976 - Reputed birth of the original individual (name not recorded) who later became the model for the so-called '.....' spores.
1981 - the term 'toposophy' is coined (Stanislaw Lem)
1984 - first successful 'test tube baby'
1991 - advent of the World Wide Web
1995 - primitive gengineering, cloning of mammalian adults