From Then to Now... And Even Further
1879: Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb
1903: The Wright Brothers create the first sustained and controlled airplane flight. It lasts 12 seconds. 1927: The first Television is made by Philo Farnsworth 1939: The first digital computer is made. All it can do is store data and perform addition and subtractions using binary code. It is a very primitive computer. 1969: NASA’s Apollo 11 lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon. 1972: Noland Bushnell creates Pong, the first mass-produced video-game. Bushnell will go on to found Atari, one of the first video game companies. 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create the computer software company known as Microsoft. 1976: Cray Research Inc. creates the first supercomputer, called the Cray-1. The Cray-1 could 240 million calculations per second. The Cray-2 could perform over 1 billion. The computers that we all have in our homes today can do over 50 trillion calculations per second. 1976: Apple comes out with their first computer, Apple I. 1981: For the first time, NASA successfully launches and lands its reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle. The shuttle can be used for a number of applications, including launch, retrieval, and repair of satellites and as a laboratory for physical experiments. 1982: Dr. Robert Jarvik implants a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik 7, into Dr. Barney Clark. The heart, powered by an external compressor, keeps Clark alive for 112 days. 1989: The World Wide Web is invented. 1990: The space shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble Space telescope 350 miles above the Earth. The Space telescope has been responsible for hundreds of important discoveries and has taken breath-taking images of some of the marvels of the universe. 1998: Google revolutionizes search engines with their easy-to-use interface and effective searching methods. 1999: Wi-Fi is created 2001: Apple releases the IPod, the powerful MP3 player that could hold more songs than any MP3 player on the market. 2005: YouTube is created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. 2009: Planet Mercury is 98% mapped. 2015: The world’s first self-regulating artificial heart was created. It acts as a normal heart and is able to monitor bodily processes. 2016: India’s first manned space flight takes place. 2016: Russian space group, Energiya, predicts the launch of the world's first space hotel in partnership with US firm Orbital Technologies.It will be able to house seven people. 2017: Bioengineered tooth regeneration will become available to humans. Using stem cells and other molecules, the tooth will be able to be regenerated in two months. 2018: Many complex surgeries will be performed by robots with little to no human supervision. 2019: High-resolution bionic eyes will be available for people with degenerative vision loss. 2020: Flying cars will be released onto the market. 2020: Complex organs will be able to be grown from stem cells 2024: Lunar Mission One, an unmanned British Moon probe will land on the South Pole of the moon and drill down 20m - 100m. 2033: Manned mission to Mars. 2035: Self-driving vehicles are widespread 2055: Overpopulation is increasing, and humans are realizing that the Earth’s resources are dwindling. Colonization of the moon has begun to take place and even middle-class people can afford trips to the moon. 2060: Technology has made allowed schools to be online instead of tangible buildings. Students are exposed to a wide variety of cultures and ideas as there are no physical boundaries anymore. |
Here, in the beginning, many of the inventions were brand new and freshly invented. In addition, there were large gaps in between the technological accomplishments.
Now the technology is beginning to get more and more advanced, however it is still so early that the timeline features many new creations. The technology has started to become more important and advanced. These inventions are the baselines of today's technology. More products for everyday use are being made, most of them are still on the market or in use today. Technology is now picking up the pace, with new advances coming out every couple of years. We have now entered the future. Sit back and marvel in the vastness of projects that will occur in the future. By this point, technology is quite advanced. New events are happening almost every year and they are all revolutionary creations. At this time period, we have gone too far out to create specific examples and ideas. The timeline has many gaps because it is hard to decipher what will come next. These newer events are extremely large and hard to think about from our viewpoint in 2015. The events now are extremely advanced and differ hugely from our current style of living. |