A BRIEF

HISTORY OF

ENGINEERING
Human beings have been adapting
their environment to better suit their
needs and wants since before
recorded history. There have always
been people who designed and built
tools or other devices to solve
problems or improve lives.
As civilizations developed, people began
reshaping their environment with farms,
villages, ships, roads, and eventually great
cities. With each advance came new
challenges that required more complex
and creative solutions.
Some of the most important
stages of engineering history
are divided in the following
timeline stages:
OLD AGE

6000-3000 Biggest discovery:

FIRE
BC
COPPER AGE

Wheel and Axle

5000 -3000 Plow

BC Stone tools
Written
communication
Soft metal tools
BABYLONIAN

ENGINEERING

Basic math
3000 - 600 Areas and volumes
of excavations
BC Bridges
Built roads
Hanging gardens
THE "MIDDLE

AGES"
First printing press
0 - 1500 Leonardo DaVinci:
architect, engineer,
AD artist.
Bridges
Catapults
ROMAN

ENGINEERING

Known for their

600 BC- impressive aqueducts
used for:
4000 AD water supply
sanitary systems
Bridges
Tunnels
EGYPTIAN

ENGINEERING

Pyramids
2900 - 1900 More advanced
writing (hyerogliphics)
BC Ink
Advanced math
INDUSTRIAL

AGE
James Watt's steam
1600-1700 engine
Luigi Galvani's
principles of electrical
conduction
Spinning and weaving
machinery
INDUSTRIAL

AGE
James Watt's steam
1600-1700 engine
Luigi Galvani's
principles of electrical
conduction
Spinning and weaving
machinery
REVIVAL OF

SCIENCE
Hooke's elasticity
1700-1800 theory
Pendulum clock
Newton's laws of
motion and
calculus
MODERN

SCIENCE ERA
Electricity war:
1800-1899 Tesla, Edison
and
Westinghouse
Refining iron
20TH CENTURY

TECHNOLOGY
Henry Ford's cars
1900-1999 Nylon and plastic
First computer
Silicon
Logistics
Jet engines
What about...

CURRENT ERA

(2000-NOW)
 Now it's your turn

In teams of 3, research and select 10 engineering landm

for the 2000-current era.
Write and draw them in the given paper.