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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 ...
Electropaedia on the History of Technology Archived 2011-05-12 at the Wayback Machine; MIT 6.933J – The Structure of Engineering Revolutions. From MIT OpenCourseWare, course materials (graduate level) for a course on the history of technology through a Thomas Kuhn-ian lens. Concept of Civilization Events. From Jaroslaw Kessler, a chronology ...
The principle is applied in wirephoto and television technology for a short time. Selenium is used in light meters for the next 50 years. Cinématographe camera by the Lumière brothers in 1895 (ref 86.5822) at the French Museum of Photography in Bièvres, Essonne, France. 1895: Auguste Lumiere's cinematograph displays moving images for the ...
The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014). Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014). Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 ...
History portal; Art of Europe; Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
The history of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent dates back to the earliest civilizations of the world. The Indus Valley civilization yields evidence of mathematics , hydrography , metrology , metallurgy , astronomy , medicine , surgery , civil engineering and sewage collection and disposal being practiced by its inhabitants.
1800–1809 Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp when using Voltaic piles (battery) for his electrolysis experiments.; 1802 William Murdoch illuminates the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas.
28,000 BC – People wear beads, bracelets, and pendants [1]; 14,500 BC – First pottery, made by the Jōmon people of Japan.; 6th millennium BC – Copper metallurgy is invented and copper is used for ornamentation (see Pločnik article)