1. How it has changed lives!
History of Technology
How it has changed lives!

2. Paleolithic 2.5 Million years ago
Use of fire
Unpolished stone tools
Sculpture
Musical instruments
Burial of the dead
Cave dwellings
Cave paintings
Stone axes
Bone needles
Hearth sites

3. Mesolithic 20,000 BC Microliths Sails Wheel and axle Leatherwork
Basketry
Fishing tackle
Stone adzes
Canoes
Bows
Domesticated animals
Stone circles
Sickles

4. Neolithic 10,000 BC Stone and mud brick dwellings Pottery
Polished stone tools
Spinning and weaving tools
Wooden and stone plows

5. Bronze Age 3300 – 1200 BC Metal pots and pans Pottery wheel Chariot
Pulley
Metal jewelry
Metal tools
Metal weapons

6. Iron Age 1200 – 1000 BC Block and tackle Pump Lathe Iron dagger
Iron chisel
Iron axe
Iron spearhead

7. Middle Ages 500 – 1400 AD Waterwheel Windmill Cannon Mechanical clock
Wheeled plow
Horseshoes
Stirrups
Crank
Compass
Ocean-going ships

8. Renaissance 1300 - 1600 Telescope Microscope Thermometer Barometer
Printing press
Rifle

9. Industrial Age 1700 - ? Steam engine Electricity Automobile Airplane
Radio
Television
Telephone
Rocket

10. Information age …
Where will it take us?