The history of technology by Brad Jacobs: From fire and shelter, to the internet and AI.

The history of technology by Brad Jacobs: From fire and shelter, to the internet and AI. I wish I was taught this at school... More than 2 million years ago - Early humans in Africa make the first stone tools from split pebbles 1 million years ago - Humans begin to use fire as a tool 500,000 years ago - Humans build the first shelters 350,000 years ago - Humans begin to hunt with spears 100,000 years ago - Humans begin to trade using beads made of shells 60,000 years ago - Humans begin to use spears for hunting, protection, aggression 1000 BC - Early accountants in Asia create the abacus 635 BC - The Chinese produce the first coins 600 BC - The Romans build the first public sewer system 200 BC - The Chinese invent the compass AD 725 - Buddhist monk Yi Xing creates the first mechanical clock 900 - The Chinese first use gunpowder in war 1182 - The Chinese invent the magnetic compass 1284 - The Italians invent eyeglasses 1328 - The Europeans invent the sawmill 1440 - Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press 1530 - Europeans invent the spinning wheel 1609 - Galileo Galilei invents the telescope 1662 - Blaise Pascal invents the public bus 1698 - Thomas Savery invents the basic steam engine 1769 - A French military tractor becomes the first self-propelled road vehicle 1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin 1795 - Nicholas-Jacques Conté invents the modern pencil 1838 - A British steamship makes the first transatlantic crossing 1839 - Charles Goodyear develops a way to make rubber strong, durable, and elastic 1850 - Isaac Singer introduces the sewing machine 1857 - William Kelly invents the blast furnace 1865 - Giovanni Caselli introduces the first commercial facsimile system 1869 - John Wesley Hyatt invents synthetic plastic 1874 - Remington Company introduces the mechanical typewriter 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1877 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph 1880 - Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb 1882 - America opens the first hydroelectric power plant 1883 - England constructs the first electric railway 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler builds the first four-wheeled automobile using an internal combustion gas engine 1886 - Josephine Cochran invents the first practical dishwasher 1892 - Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine 1894 - Nikola Tesla invents radio signal coils 1896 - Gottlieb Daimler builds the first truck 1901 - Henry Booth invents the vacuum cleaner; Thomas Edison invents the alkaline storage battery 1902 - Marie and Pierre Curie discover the existence of the elements radium and polonium 1903 - Willis Carrier introduces the first electric air conditioner 1908 - Henry Ford uses the assembly line to introduce the Model T; Thomas Edison develops a moving picture with sound 1910 - A plane transports commercial freight for the first time 1913 - England manufactures the first stainless steel 1914 - Electric traffic lights are invented in the United States 1920 - James Smathers invents the electric typewriter 1921 - Karel Čapek invents the robot; Western Union introduces the telegram 1923 - Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food 1927 - Erik Rotheim invents the aerosol can; Philo Farnsworth invents the all-electric television 1933 - Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson invent polyethylene 1935 - Robert Watson-Watt pioneers the development of radar 1936 - A rail provider transports a truck trailer for the first time 1937 - Frank Whittle invents the jet engine 1938 - Philip Wiles invents the stainless-steel artificial hip 1939 - Sikorsky builds the first viable helicopter; The United States builds the first mass-produced remote-controlled aircraft, or drone 1940 - England uses the first operational computer in WWII 1943 - America begins operating the first nuclear reactor 1945 - Raytheon Corporation introduces the microwave oven 1946 - The first general-purpose, programmable computer (ENIAC) is developed for the U.S. Army 1947 - William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invent the transistor 1949 - De Havilland Aircraft builds the first commercial jet airliner 1951 - Charles Ginsburg develops the videotape recorder 1952 - America develops the first hydrogen bomb; Swedish scientists Åke Senning and Rune Elmqvist implant the first cardiac pacemaker 1953 - NBC begins broadcasting television programs in color 1955 - IBM introduces the first transistor calculator 1956 - The “Ideal X,” the world’s first commercial container ship, sails; IBM develops the FORTRAN computer programming language 1957 - Russia launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite 1959 - Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invent the silicon chip; Xerox introduces the first commercial copier 1962 - NASA launches the first privately built satellite; Nick Holonyak Jr. invents the first visible light LED 1963 - Digital Equipment Corporation introduces the minicomputer; Philips introduces the compact audio cassette 1965 - The first robotic exoskeleton for assisted walking is created; Stephanie Kwolek invents Kevlar 1966 - Marie Van Brittan Brown invents the first video home security system 1968 - Ivan Sutherland implements the first virtual reality system 1969 - The internet is created through the ARPANET network 1971 - Intel introduces the first microprocessor; Texas Instruments introduces the first pocket calculator 1972 - Landstat 1 creates the first comprehensive mapping of Earth 1973 - Xerox develops the first personal computer 1977 - The VHS video recorder is developed 1978 - The first human is born through in vitro fertilization (IVF) 1979 - Nippon launches the first 1G wireless network in Tokyo 1980 - Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invent the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) 1981 - The mobile phone is invented 1982 - The compact disc player is developed 1983 - Apple introduces the Graphical User Interface (GUI); Bill Gates introduces Microsoft Windows; GPS technology is made available for civilian use; Charles Hull invents stereolithography 1984 - Carnegie Mellon University develops the first truly autonomous vehicles 1991 - Ann Tsukamoto identifies and isolates stem cells 1992 - Apple introduces the first PDA; Vodafone sends the first SMS text message, “Merry Christmas” 1994 - Jeff Bezos founds the first purely online retail company; Dan Kohn completes the world’s first secure credit card transaction over the internet 1995 - Gary Kremen launches Match. com, the first online dating service 1996 - Email communication is widely adopted; Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland clone “Dolly” the sheep 1997 - AOL makes instant messaging available; Videophones are first used in business settings; IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats chess champion Garry Kasparov 1998 - Google is incorporated; MP3 files begin to be transmitted on the internet; Microvision introduces the virtual retina display; IBM introduces the first speech recognition software; The first high-definition television is sold 1999 - The first wearable continuous glucose monitoring system is approved by the FDA; The first human organ, a bladder, is artificially engineered using 3D printing; TiVo introduces time-shifting broadcast recording 2000 - The “ILOVEYOU” virus infects 50 million computers 2001 - Apple launches the iPod; The first artificial heart is implanted in a human; Capsule endoscopy technology is introduced 2002 - The birth control patch is first released in the United States 2003 - The U.S. government establishes the National Cyber Security Division; Skype launches videoconferencing applications 2004 - Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students launch Facebook 2005 - YouTube launches its video-sharing website; Scientists complete the first comprehensive comparison of the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees 2006 - Amazon Web Services is launched; Twitter is introduced; Nintendo introduces motion sensor–controlled technology; The first commercial drone is permitted by the U.S. FAA; Food is 3D-printed for the first time 2007 - Apple introduces the iPhone; Amazon introduces Kindle 2008 - Blockchain is introduced for bitcoin transactions 2009 - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna invent CRISPR; Google launches Waymo 2010 - Apple introduces the iPad; The first ever Uber trip is completed; Palmer Luckey completes his first VR headset prototype 2011 - Apple introduces Siri 2012 - The Higgs boson particle is discovered; Australian surgeons implant the world’s first bionic eye 2013 - The Apple App Store exceeds a million apps; The FDA approves the first retinal implant in the United States 2014 - A robotic lander built by the ESA makes the first soft landing on a comet 2015 - NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto; PayPal’s Venmo reports 40 million annual users 2016 - The FDA approves the first artificial pancreas; AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol at Go 2017 - SpaceX reuses a Falcon 9 rocket; Ericsson introduces support for the 5G network; Apple launches facial recognition on the iPhone X 2018 - Instagram reaches 1 billion monthly users 2019 - Astronomers release the first photo of a black hole; IBM unveils the first quantum computing system for commercial use; Israeli researchers print a 3D heart using human tissue 2020 - Zoom is downloaded a record 2.13 million times in a single day 2022 - OpenAI releases ChatGPT; The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are released; A robot performs laparoscopic surgery on a pig without human assistance. 2023 - Google releases Bard.