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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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History of Technology
The Brief Look at the GreatestInventors & Their Inventions
Glen H. Besterfield, Ph.DME, USF
Outline Man’s Technological Quests Antiquity Renaissance Science Industry Modern Era The Future
Man’s Quests Fire Oceans Human Body Flight Space Genetics Space-Time-Matter ??????
Antiquity
The Engineers and Scientists that Created the Birth in Technology
Mesopotamians
Fire Native Copper
• 9000 BC Wheel
• 3500 BC Baghdad Battery
Egyptians Smelting Copper Bronze Age Pyramids Hero of Alexandria Plow
Chinese
Great Wall Abacus Paper
• Cai Lun, 100 AD Moveable Type Gunpowder Mechanical Clock Compass
South America
Nazca Lines Tiwanaku Machu Pichu
• 9000’ in the Andes Qui Pu
Greeks
Architecture Ptholemy Archimedes of Syracuse Aristotle
Romans
Roman Roads• Apian Way
Aquaducts• Aqua Appian
Vitruvious• Water Clock (150 BC)• Waterwheel (180 BC)
Renaissance
The Engineers and Scientists that led to a
“Rebirth” in Technology
Leonardo daVinci Wrote Backwards Inventions
• Siege Defenses• War Scythe• Multi-Barrel Gun• Ornithopter• Tank• Helicopter• Airplane Wing
“Tell me if anything is ever done”
Nicholas Copernicus
Arts, Law, Medicine, Astronomy Geocentric Universe Heliocentric Universe
Galileo Galilei
Physics• Isochronous Motion• Parabolic Motion• Inertia (Newton)
Thermometer Telescope
• Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Milky Way Ecclesiatic Trial
“Here, a simple tube
and two lenses had made a rod for beating
the Aristotelian”
Ronan
Science
The Engineers and Scientists that laid the to Scientific Principles
of Today
Christian Huygens
Christian Huygens
Pendulum Clock• John Harrison
Regulating Spiral (1675) Theory of Light
Isaac Newton
Principia (3 books)• Modern Mechanics• Celestial Mechanics• Laws of the Universe
Johannes Gutenburg
Moveable Type Latin Bible
Industry
The Engineers and Scientists that Powered the World Through the Industrial Revolution
James Watt
Savery & Newcommen Atmosphereic Engine Steam Distribution Double Acting Micrometer (1772)
Michael Faraday
Principle of Induction Electric Motor Generator Dynamo
The Steel & Oil Magnates Henry Bessemer
•“Most Spectacular Sight Steel Industry”
Andrew Carneige•US Steel Corp.
J.P. Morgan Rockefellers
Thomas Alva Edison
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
George Westinghouse
Air Brakes Battles with Edison Wilmerding Niagara Falls
• Generators NY Subway Manhattan Elevated
The Automobile Inovators Siegfried Markus Gottlieb Daimler Karl Benz George Seldon Henry Ford
The Airplane Inventors
George Cayley Lilienthal & Pilcher The Wright Brothers Whittle & O’hain
The Great Builders Brooklyn Bridge
• Roeblings• Caissons• Wire Wrapping
Panama Canal• 20 years• Lake Gatum• Calebra Cut
Modern Era
The Engineers and Scientists that Paved
the Way Into the Future
Rockets to Space
Robert Goddard• Liquid-Fueled (1929)
Werner vonBraun• V1, V2, V5, Saturn 5
Albert Einstein Special Theory (1905) General Theory Quantum Theory Big Bang Theory
• Curved, Finite Space Atomic Bomb
• Responsibility of Science
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project
Oppenheimer Fermi, Berthe, Teller Four Sites Project Trinity
• Los Alamos• Ground Zero - Alamagordo
Fat Man & Little Boy Treason
The Computer Pioneers Charles Babbage Hollerith & Watson Enigma & Colossus John vonNeuman Ekert & Mockley Shockley, Bardeen &Brattain Jack Kilby Jobs & Wozniak Gates & Allen
The Future“There is Nothing More To Invent”
Director, USPTO, 1900
Thomas A. Edison
“Invention is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration”