Humans are an ingenious species. Though we've been on the planet for a relatively short amount of time (Earth is 4.5 billion years ol...
Read More
Home » Archive for 2016
The wheel
Before the invention of the wheel in 3500 B.C., humans were severely limited in how much stuff we could transport over land, and how far. ...
Read More
The nail
Without nails, civilization would surely crumble. This key invention dates back more than 2,000 years to the Ancient Roman period, and be...
Read More
The compass
Ancient mariners navigated by the stars, but that method didn't work during the day or on cloudy nights, and so it was unsafe to voyag...
Read More
The internal combustion engine
In these engines, the combustion of a fuel releases a high-temperature gas, which, as it expands, applies a force to a piston, moving it. ...
Read More
The telephone
Though several inventors did pioneering work on electronic voice transmission (many of whom later filed intellectual property lawsuits wh...
Read More
The light bulb
When all you have is natural light, productivity is limited to daylight hours. Light bulbs changed the world by allowing us to be active ...
Read More
Penicillin
It is onee of the most famous discovery stories in history. In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-filled P...
Read More
The Internet
It really needs no introduction: The global system of interconnected computer networks known as the Internet is used by billions of peopl...
Read More
What Is Technology?
Technology is The purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organiz...
Read More
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)