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The document is a timeline of major scientific inventions and discoveries from ancient times to the 19th century, listing notable inventors and their contributions. It includes inventions such as the first tool, the battery, and the internal combustion engine. The timeline highlights the evolution of technology and innovation across different periods and cultures.

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Assessment Activity 1

The document is a timeline of major scientific inventions and discoveries from ancient times to the 19th century, listing notable inventors and their contributions. It includes inventions such as the first tool, the battery, and the internal combustion engine. The timeline highlights the evolution of technology and innovation across different periods and cultures.

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Name: Diploma, Christian Mark C.

Course/Major/Section: BS Electrical Engineering - 2A


Assessment Activity: Number 1

Timeline of Major Scientific Inventions & Discoveries from


Ancient Period to 19th Century

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t96ElfeuhK0)

Please refer to the link indicated above to complete the table below:

Period Inventors Invention/Discovery

10 million years ago Ancient Humans First tool

1-2 million years ago Ancient Humans Fire

25,000-50,000 BCE Ancient Humans Clothing

~ 10,000 BCE Ancient Humans Boat

8000-9000 BCE Ancient Humans Settlements & Agriculture

6000-7000 BCE Ancient Humans Construction with bricks

~4000 BCE Ancient Humans Usage of iron

3500-5000 BCE Ancient Humans Glass

~3500 BCE Ancient Humans Wheels

~3000 BCE Sumerian People Written languages

~2500 BCE Ancient Egyptians Papyrus

~2000 BCE Ancient Egyptians Irrigation Devices

~1700 BCE Semites of the Mediterranean Alphabet

~600 BCE Thales Static Electricity

~250 BCE Egyptians Lighthouse

300-200 BCE Chinese Magnetic Direction Finder


~250 BCE Archimedes Screw Pump

50-100 BCE Unknown Precision clockwork


Machines

50 BCE Roman Vitruvius Vertical water wheel

62 CE Greek Scientist Steam Power

105 CE Ts'ai Lun Paper

27 BCE–395 CE Romans Steel and concrete

~600 CE Unknown Wind turbines

700–900 CE Chinese Bullets Fireworks Space


rockets

~ 1000 Chinese Eyeglasses

1206 Al-Jazari Flushing hand-washing


machine

1450 Johannes Gutenberg Metal letters in printing press

1470s Unknown First parachute sketch

~1600 Galileo Galilei Basic thermometer

1643 Evangelista Torricelli Mercury barometer

~1655 Leeuwenhoek and Hooke Microscopes

1650s Christiaan Huygens Pendulum clocks

1687 Isaac Newton Three laws of motion and


gravity

1700s Bartolomeo Cristofori Pianos

1701 Jethro Tull Horse-drawn seed drill

1703 Gottfried Leibniz Binary number system

1712 Thomas Newcomen First practical steam engine

1737 William Champion Large-scale zinc extraction


1757 John Campbell Chronometers

1751 Axel Cronstedt Nickel isolation

1756 Axel Cronstedt Zeolites

1769 Wolfgang von Kempelen Mechanical speaking machine

1770s Abraham Darby III Iron bridge Construction

1783 Montgolfier Brothers First practical hot-air balloon

1791 Reverend William Gregor Titanium

1800 Alessandro Volta Battery

1801 Joseph-Marie Jacquard Automated cloth-weaving


loom

1803 Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier Papermaking machine

1806 William Congreve Long-range military rockets

1807 Humphry Davy Electric arc lamp

1814 George Stephenson First practical steam


locomotive

1816 Robert Stirling Stirling engine

1820s– 1830s Michael Faraday Electric generators and motors

1827 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Modern photograph

1830s William Sturgeon Electric motor

1830s– 1840s Wheatstone,Cooke and Morse Electric telegraph

1836 Petit-Smith and Ericsson Propellers with blades

1840s Alexander Bain Primitive fax machine

1849 James Francis Water turbine

1850s Louis Pasteur Pasteurization

1850s Giovanni Caselli Mechanical fax machine

1860s Lenoir and Nikolaus Otto Internal combustion engine


1861 Elisha Graves Otis Elevator with built-in safety
brake

1867 Joseph Monier Reinforced concrete

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes Typewriter and QWERTY

1871 Frank Wenham Wind tunnel

1870s Thomas Edison Photograph

1877 Thomas Edison Sound-recording machine

1877 Edward Very Flare gun

1880 Pierre and Paul-Jacques Piezoelectric effect.

1880s Thomas Edison Power plants

1880s Charles Chamberland Autoclaves

1883 George Eastman Plastic photographic film

1884 Charles Parsons Steam turbines

1885 Karl Benz Gasoline-engined car

1886 Josephine Cochran Dishwashers

1888 Friedrich Reinitzer Liquid crystals

1890s Joseph and Louis Lumiere movie projector

1894 Oliver Lodge First radio message

1895 Wilhelm Röntgen X rays

1895 Ogden Bolton, Jr. Electric bicycle

1898 Nikola Tesla Radio-Controlled boat

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