Strand Two Technological Advances

The Assembly Line - Ransom E. Olds First Airplane Flight – Wright Brothers –

Edwin Armstrong – superhetrodyne tuner Air-to-ground/ground-to-air radio transmission –

John Logie Baird – First working television Edwin Hubble – Hubble’s Law –

Robert Watson-Watt – Radar – Chester Carlton – Xerography machine –

Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain– transistor Konrad Zuse – first digital computer –

Sergei Korolev –Sputnik, first artificial satellite Charles Ginsburg – First Video Tape Recorder – John Backus – FORTRAN – computer language – “You need the willingness to fail all the time,” he said. “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work “ (Backus, 2007).

Douglas Engelbart – first computer mouse Arpanet – first internet invented – Robert Dennard – Random Access Memory (RAM) –

Robert Baer– Magnovox Odyssey, first video game console videogame-ralph-baer-video.htmhttp://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/33159-rise-of-the- videogame-ralph-baer-video.htm Michael Shayer –First word processor, “The electric pencil”

1980 – 1990 First city wide mobile network, Nordic Mobile Telephone Japan Sony – first compact disc player –

Tim Berners-Lee – internet language, HTTP Saehan Information Systems - first MP3 player h ttp://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlongl ast.com/first168.html

Linden Lab – Second Life, virtual world FDA approved artificial heart – successfullyhttp://topnews.us/content/25775-first-artificial-heart-implanted- successfully