Transcript History of Technology - USF College of Engineering

History of
Technology
The Brief Look at the Greatest
Inventors & Their Inventions
Glen H. Besterfield, Ph.D
ME, USF
Outline
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Man’s Technological Quests
Antiquity
Renaissance
Science
Industry
Modern Era
The Future
Man’s Quests
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Fire
Oceans
Human Body
Flight
Space
Genetics
Space-Time-Matter
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Antiquity
The Engineers and
Scientists that
Created the Birth in
Technology
Mesopotamians
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Fire
Native Copper
• 9000 BC
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Wheel
• 3500 BC
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Baghdad Battery
Egyptians
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Smelting Copper
Bronze Age
Pyramids
Hero of Alexandria
Plow
Chinese
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Great Wall
Abacus
Paper
• Cai Lun, 100 AD
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Moveable Type
Gunpowder
Mechanical Clock
Compass
South America
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Nazca Lines
Tiwanaku
Machu Pichu
• 9000’ in the Andes
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Qui Pu
Greeks
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Architecture
Ptholemy
Archimedes of Syracuse
Aristotle
Romans
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Roman Roads
• Apian Way
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Aquaducts
• Aqua Appian
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Vitruvious
• Water Clock (150 BC)
• Waterwheel (180 BC)
Renaissance
The Engineers and
Scientists that led to
a “Rebirth” in
Technology
Leonardo daVinci
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Wrote Backwards
Inventions
• Siege Defenses
• War Scythe
• Multi-Barrel Gun
• Ornithopter
• Tank
• Helicopter
• Airplane Wing
“Tell me if anything is ever done”
Nicholas Copernicus
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Arts, Law, Medicine, Astronomy
Geocentric Universe
Heliocentric Universe
Galileo Galilei
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Physics
• Isochronous Motion
• Parabolic Motion
• Inertia (Newton)
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“Here, a simple tube
and two lenses had
made a rod for beating
the Aristotelian”
Ronan
Thermometer
Telescope
• Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Milky Way
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Ecclesiatic Trial
Science
The Engineers and
Scientists that laid
the to Scientific
Principles of Today
Christian Huygens
Christian Huygens
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Pendulum Clock
• John Harrison
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Regulating Spiral (1675)
Theory of Light
Isaac Newton
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Principia (3 books)
• Modern Mechanics
• Celestial Mechanics
• Laws of the Universe
Johannes Gutenburg
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Moveable Type
Latin Bible
Industry
The Engineers and
Scientists that
Powered the World
Through the
Industrial Revolution
James Watt
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Savery & Newcommen
Atmosphereic Engine
Steam Distribution
Double Acting
Micrometer (1772)
Michael Faraday
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Principle of Induction
Electric Motor
Generator
Dynamo
The Steel & Oil Magnates
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Henry Bessemer
• “Most Spectacular Sight
Steel Industry”
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Andrew Carneige
• US Steel Corp.
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J.P. Morgan
Rockefellers
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
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“The Wizard of Menlo Park”
• Inspiration & Invention
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Stock Ticker
Incandescent Light Bulb
• Carbonized Sewing Thread
• New Year’s Eve
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Phonograph
• Stock Market Crash
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Kinetescope
General Electric
George Westinghouse
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Air Brakes
Battles with Edison
Wilmerding
Niagara Falls
• Generators
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NY Subway
Manhattan Elevated
The Automobile Inovators
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Siegfried Markus
Gottlieb Daimler
Karl Benz
George Seldon
Henry Ford
The Airplane Inventors
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George Cayley
Lilienthal & Pilcher
The Wright Brothers
Whittle & O’hain
The Great Builders
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Brooklyn Bridge
• Roeblings
• Caissons
• Wire Wrapping
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Panama Canal
• 20 years
• Lake Gatum
• Calebra Cut
Modern Era
The Engineers and
Scientists that Paved
the Way Into the
Future
Rockets to Space
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Robert Goddard
• Liquid-Fueled (1929)
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Werner vonBraun
• V1, V2, V5, Saturn 5
Albert Einstein
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Special Theory (1905)
General Theory
Quantum Theory
Big Bang Theory
• Curved, Finite Space
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Atomic Bomb
• Responsibility of Science
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project
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Oppenheimer
Fermi, Berthe, Teller
Four Sites
Project Trinity
• Los Alamos
• Ground Zero - Alamagordo
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Fat Man & Little Boy
Treason
The Computer Pioneers
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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”