1. Evolution and Influence of Technology

2. Stone Age 250,000 B.C. Time for survival Tools were made of stone
Used for cutting, hunting, pounding vegetables, and even progressed to harnessing fire

3. Bronze Age 3000 B.C. - 1200 B.C. Tools were made from metal
Metal was easier to shape, more durable and useful than stone tools.
Improved agriculture practices, growing industries and military applications.

4. Iron Age B.C A.D.
People began to move from farms to develop towns and cities.
Tools were made of iron and steel
Developments such as the plow and irrigation enabled fewer farmers to grow more food.

5. Middle Ages 500 A.D. - 1450 A.D. Development of paper money
Waterwheel to grind grain
Magnetic compass for exploration
Printing press for books
All these allowed people to trade, travel and spread information easier.

6. Renaissance 1450 A.D -1700 A. D. Rebirth of the arts and humanities
Leonardo da Vinci created drawings
The camera obscure, telescope, the submarine, and hydraulic press
Mechanization of the farm, labor was freed up for work in the factories. This caused people to move into the cities.

7. Industrial Age 1700 - 1940 Industry played a major role in society
Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts and Henry Ford’s movable conveyor

8. Industrial Age
The steam engine, gasoline and diesel engine, airplanes, telephones, telegraphs, and radios
People more leisure time more time for children to spend in school instead of on the farm.

9. Information Age 1940 - present
Processing and exchanging information.
“The development of binary language, transistors, microchips
Explosion of computers, calculators and communication processes to quickly move information form place to place”

10. Information Age 1940 - present
Hydrogen bomb, space shuttles, communication satellites, prefabrication, biotechnology, freeze-drying, and the International Space Station.
The Information Age has placed knowledge and information at the touch of button.