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The three-age system does not accurately describe the technology history of groups outside of Eurasia, and does not apply at all in the case of some isolated populations, such as the Spinifex People, the Sentinelese, and various Amazonian tribes, which still make use of Stone Age technology, and have not developed agricultural or metal ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
An axe made of iron, dating from the Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics. A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another
1966 – Caspian Sea Monster ground effect vehicle introduced. 1967 – Automatic train operation introduced on London Underground. 1968 – Space hopper invented. 1969 First flight of the Boeing 747 – First commercial widebody airliner. NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race – Makes the first crewed Moon landing a ...
Macintosh computer (introduced) Apple Computer 1984: CD-ROM player for personal computers: Philips 1984: First music synthesizer (Kurzweil K250) capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments: Kurzweil Music Systems: 1984: Amiga computer (introduced) Commodore 1985: 300,000 simultaneous telephone conversations over ...
1900 Fly swatter. A fly swatter is a hand-held device for swatting and killing flies and other insects. The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Illinois. [75] On January 9, 1900, Montgomery was issued U.S. patent #640,790 for the "Fly-Killer". [76] 1900 Thumbtack
The concept was introduced by Patrick Geddes, Cities in Evolution (1910), and was being used by economists such as Erich Zimmermann (1951), [4] but David Landes' use of the term in a 1966 essay and in The Unbound Prometheus (1972) standardized scholarly definitions of the term, which was most intensely promoted by Alfred Chandler (1918–2007 ...
Banaras Hindu University has programs: one in History of Science and Technology at the Faculty of Science and one in Historical and Comparative Studies of the Sciences and the Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities. Andhra University has now set History of Science and Technology as a compulsory subject for all the First year B-Tech students.