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Cowan, Ruth Schwartz (1997), A Social History of American Technology, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-504605-6; Martello, Robert (2010), Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, Balitimore: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, ISBN 9781421401003
Genetic evidence from body lice suggests a range of dates centering over 100 thousand years ago. [28] The first bone scrapers appropriate for scraping hides to make supple leather were found in Morocco dating to 90–120,000 years ago. [29] [30] 164 kya – 47 kya: Heat treating of stone blades in South Africa. [31]
In 1924, American engineer Lloyd Espenschied invented the radio altimeter. However, it took 14 years before Bell Labs was able to put Espenschied's device in a form that was adaptable for aircraft use. [194] 1925 Automatic volume control. Automatic volume control or automatic gain control (AGC) is an adaptive system found in many electronic ...
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online. Eckermann, Erik. World history of the automobile (SAE International, 2001). Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios ...
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
Counting down to Christmas was done at least 100 years ago. This reminder appeared in the Daily Eagle on Dec. 4, 1924. The Pet and Novelty Shoppe announced they were opening at the end of the year ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from simple stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s.