THE WIZARD OF TECH

                                 History of Technology Timeline 3.3 million years ago: The first tools The history of technology begins even before the beginning of our own species. Sharp flakes of stone used as knives and larger unshaped stones used as hammers and anvils have been uncovered at Lake Turkana in Kenya. The tools were made 3.3 million years ago and thus were likely used by an ancestor such as  Australopithecus . 1 million years ago: Fire When humanity first used fire is still not definitively known, but, like the first tools, it was probably invented by an ancestor of  Homo sapiens . Evidence of burnt material can be found in caves used by  Homo erectus  beginning about 1 million (and maybe even 1.5 million) years ago. 20,000 to 15,000 years ago: Neolithic Revolution During the  Neolithic Period  several key technologies arose together. Humans moved from getti...

󠁉  History of technology The   history of technology   is the history of the   invention   of   tools   and techniques and is one of the categories of world history. Technology can refer to methods ranging from as simple as   stone tools   to the complex   genetic engineering   and   information technology   that has emerged since the 1980s. The term technology comes from the Greek word techne, meaning art and craft, and the word logos, meaning word and speech. It was first used to describe applied arts, but it is now used to describe advancements and changes that affect our environment. [1] The  wheel , invented sometime before the 4th millennium BC, is one of the most ubiquitous and important technologies. This detail of the "Standard of Ur", c. 2500 BC., displays a Sumerian  chariot New knowledge has enabled people to create new things, and conversely, many scientific endeavors are made possible by  tech...