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History of Technology

History of Technology. The Brief Look at the Greatest Inventors & Their Inventions. Glen H. Besterfield, Ph.D ME, USF. Outline. Man’s Technological Quests Antiquity Renaissance Science Industry Modern Era The Future. Man’s Quests. Fire Oceans Human Body Flight Space Genetics

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History of Technology

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  1. History of Technology The Brief Look at the Greatest Inventors & Their Inventions Glen H. Besterfield, Ph.D ME, USF

  2. Outline • Man’s Technological Quests • Antiquity • Renaissance • Science • Industry • Modern Era • The Future

  3. Man’s Quests • Fire • Oceans • Human Body • Flight • Space • Genetics • Space-Time-Matter • ??????

  4. Antiquity The Engineers and Scientists that Created the Birth in Technology

  5. Mesopotamians • Fire • Native Copper • 9000 BC • Wheel • 3500 BC • Baghdad Battery

  6. Egyptians • Smelting Copper • Bronze Age • Pyramids • Hero of Alexandria • Plow

  7. Chinese • Great Wall • Abacus • Paper • Cai Lun, 100 AD • Moveable Type • Gunpowder • Mechanical Clock • Compass

  8. South America • Nazca Lines • Tiwanaku • Machu Pichu • 9000’ in the Andes • Qui Pu

  9. Greeks • Architecture • Ptholemy • Archimedes of Syracuse • Aristotle

  10. Romans • Roman Roads • Apian Way • Aquaducts • Aqua Appian • Vitruvious • Water Clock (150 BC) • Waterwheel (180 BC)

  11. Renaissance The Engineers and Scientists that led to a “Rebirth” in Technology

  12. Leonardo daVinci • Wrote Backwards • Inventions • Siege Defenses • War Scythe • Multi-Barrel Gun • Ornithopter • Tank • Helicopter • Airplane Wing • “Tell me if anything is ever done”

  13. Nicholas Copernicus • Arts, Law, Medicine, Astronomy • Geocentric Universe • Heliocentric Universe

  14. Galileo Galilei “Here, a simple tube and two lenses had made a rod for beating the Aristotelian” Ronan • Physics • Isochronous Motion • Parabolic Motion • Inertia (Newton) • Thermometer • Telescope • Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Milky Way • Ecclesiatic Trial

  15. Science The Engineers and Scientists that laid the to Scientific Principles of Today

  16. Christian Huygens

  17. Christian Huygens • Pendulum Clock • John Harrison • Regulating Spiral (1675) • Theory of Light

  18. Isaac Newton • Principia (3 books) • Modern Mechanics • Celestial Mechanics • Laws of the Universe

  19. Johannes Gutenburg • Moveable Type • Latin Bible

  20. Industry The Engineers and Scientists that Powered the World Through the Industrial Revolution

  21. James Watt • Savery & Newcommen • Atmosphereic Engine • Steam Distribution • Double Acting • Micrometer (1772)

  22. Michael Faraday • Principle of Induction • Electric Motor • Generator • Dynamo

  23. The Steel & Oil Magnates • Henry Bessemer • “Most Spectacular Sight Steel Industry” • Andrew Carneige • US Steel Corp. • J.P. Morgan • Rockefellers

  24. Thomas Alva Edison

  25. Thomas Alva Edison • “The Wizard of Menlo Park” • Inspiration & Invention • Stock Ticker • Incandescent Light Bulb • Carbonized Sewing Thread • New Year’s Eve • Phonograph • Stock Market Crash • Kinetescope • General Electric

  26. George Westinghouse • Air Brakes • Battles with Edison • Wilmerding • Niagara Falls • Generators • NY Subway • Manhattan Elevated

  27. The Automobile Inovators • Siegfried Markus • Gottlieb Daimler • Karl Benz • George Seldon • Henry Ford

  28. The Airplane Inventors • George Cayley • Lilienthal & Pilcher • The Wright Brothers • Whittle & O’hain

  29. The Great Builders • Brooklyn Bridge • Roeblings • Caissons • Wire Wrapping • Panama Canal • 20 years • Lake Gatum • Calebra Cut

  30. Modern Era The Engineers and Scientists that Paved the Way Into the Future

  31. Rockets to Space • Robert Goddard • Liquid-Fueled (1929) • Werner vonBraun • V1, V2, V5, Saturn 5

  32. Albert Einstein • Special Theory (1905) • General Theory • Quantum Theory • Big Bang Theory • Curved, Finite Space • Atomic Bomb • Responsibility of Science

  33. The Manhattan Project

  34. The Manhattan Project • Oppenheimer • Fermi, Berthe, Teller • Four Sites • Project Trinity • Los Alamos • Ground Zero - Alamagordo • Fat Man & Little Boy • Treason

  35. The Computer Pioneers • Charles Babbage • Hollerith & Watson • Enigma & Colossus • John vonNeuman • Ekert & Mockley • Shockley, Bardeen &Brattain • Jack Kilby • Jobs & Wozniak • Gates & Allen

  36. The Future “There is Nothing More To Invent” Director, USPTO, 1900

  37. Thomas A. Edison “Invention is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration”

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