A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

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 4 Billion Years Ago
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• Primitive metabolic
assemblages begin to
use nucleic acids as
biological software
storage and
transmission system
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 2 Billion Years Ago

• Eukaryotes evolved
– a new form of life
in which separate
organismal domains
cooperate as living
tools
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 570 Million Years Ago

• First organisms to
use mineralized
shells appeared

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 500 Million Years Ago

• Giant sea scorpions

used empty shells as
aerolungs to move
into lands

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 3.3 Million Years Ago

• Ancient hominins
on the shores of
Lake Turkana begin
using Oldowan
stone tools

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 1.7 Million Years Ago

• Later species of
hominins begin
experimenting with the
Acheulean toolmaking
technique – typically
large bifacial hand axes

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 1.5 Million Years Ago

• Possible dates of earliest use

of fire by African hominins
(homo ergaster) spurred the
growth of cognitive
evolution further by cooking

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 500,000 Years Ago

• Oldest known fabricated

structure (Chichibu shelter)
likely a temporary hut
constructed by Homo
erectus populations

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 400,000 Years Ago

• The Schoningen
spears (Germany) –
first known human
wooden spears

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 100,000-70,000 Years Ago

• Use of earliest
abstract symbols and
art, from the material
found in Blombos
cave in South Africa

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 50,000 Years Ago

• Humans had
knowledge of
serviceable rude
watercraft which
predate Homo
sapiens
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 30,000 Years Ago
• First domestication of dogs
• Beginning of the human use
of living tools which
continues up to Agricultural
Revolution
• Domestication of plants and
animals arguably
humankind’s greatest
invention
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 26,000 Years Ago

• Construction of
early homo sapiens
settlement of Dolni
Vestonice in
eastern Europe

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 20,000 Years Ago

• the Ishango Bone, an

engrave baboon fibula,
may indicate an early
knowledge of
mathematics and
calendrics or represent
numerical notation of
some kind
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 12,000 Years Ago

• First use of metal

implements

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 10,000 Years Ago

• Construction of
megalithic
architecture and
sculptured
iconography at the
early Neolithic site of
Gobekli Tepe

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 2,300 B.C.E.

• West African
chimpanzees in the Ivory
Coast began using rude
stone tools of the Ivorian
technological mode.
• Latest date for the
beginning of the
chimpanzee Stone Age

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 2,100 B.C.E.

• Appearance of
Sumerian abacus, a
simple tabulating
machine and
essentially, a primitive
computer

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 400 B.C.E.

• Archytas of Tarentum
invents the first drone –
a mechanical steam-
driven dove capable of
powerful flight

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 200-100 B.C.E.

• The Antikythera
Mechanism, first
analogue
computer

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 27 B.C.E.

• According to Vitrubius,
Roman surveyors used
odometers, consisting of
wooden carts fitted with
a mechanism of toothed
gears, to measure out all
those famous roads that
led back to Rome

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 1st Century C.E.

• Hero
• Aerolipile
• Hero’s Engine
• Early steam-driven
turbine

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 132 Century C.E.

• Zhang Heng
• Invents a
seismoscope,
capable of
detecting distant
earthquakes and
their epicenters
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 9th Century C.E.

• Abbas Ibn Firnas

• First to attain
flight by a glider

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 1232

• Gunpowder rockets
invented during the
Song Dynasty

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 1606

• Jerónimo de Ayanz y
Beaumont
• Steam-driven water
pump
• Savery, Newcomen and
Watt – refinement during
the Industrial Revolution

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 1822

• Charles Babbage
• Difference engine –
paves for the future
computing machines

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 1860

• Etienne Lenoir
• Gas-fired internal
combustion engine

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 1903

• Wright Brothers
• Orville and Wilbur
• made the first controlled,
sustained flight of a
powered, heavier-than-air
aircraft on December 17,
1903, four miles south of
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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 1931

• Huge tabulating
and computing
machines installed
by IBM

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 1942

• Germany
• Vengeance Weapon
• Long-range guided
ballistic missile
• First man-made to make
a space journey

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 1951

• Electricity from
nuclear fission power
plant

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 1952

• Mathematician Grace
Hopper completes A-0,
a program that allows a
computer user to use
English-like words
instead of numbers to
give the computer
instructions

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 After 1952
• first heart transplant was performed in 1967
• first artificial heart was installed in 1982
• first heart and lung transplant was performed in
1987
• laser was invented in 1960 AND was used in eye
surgery for the first time

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 After 1952
• laser printer was invented by Gary Starkweather in
1969
• invention of fiber optics in the 1950s made possible
the development of endoscopes in the 1960s
• contraceptive pills became available in Britain in
1961
• first test tube baby was born in 1978

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 Louise Joy Brown

• Her mother:
Lesley Brown
• IVF
• 40 years old

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 Christiaan Neethling Barnard

• South African cardiac surgeon

who performed the world's
first human-to-human heart
transplant on 3 December 1967
at Groote Schuur Hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa
• Louis Washkansky, lived for 18
days, having succumbed to
pneumonia as he was taking
immunosuppressive drugs

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Prepared by Ma. Lourdes D. Guerrero and Benjamin D. Doria for the GE Training at Palawan State University
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