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”