Studied by 5 peopleTags & Description
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
UNIVERSE MODEL
GALILEO GALILEI
WORK OF MOTION
JOHANNES KEPLER
LAW OF PLANETARY MOTION
ISAAC NEWTON
LAW OF MOTION AND LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION
Industrial Revolution
Covers complex technological innovations that led to the substitution of machines and inanimate power for human skill and human forces
ALESSANDRO VOLTA
CELL OR BATTERY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE CHARGE
ROBERT HOOKE
DISCOVERY OF CELL
WILHELM ROENTGEN
XRAY
JOHN DALTON
ATOMIC THEORY
CHARLES DARWIN
THEORY OF EVOLUTION
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON
DISCOVERY OF ELECTRON
ROBERT BROWN
DISCOVERY OF CELL NUCLEUS
ALBERT EINSTEIN
THEORY OF RELATIVITY
GEORGE LEMAITRE
BING BANG THEORY
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
DISCOVERY OF PROTON
JAMES CHADWICK
DISCOVERY OF NEUTRON
OTTO HAN
NUCLEAR FISSION
MIKHAIL TSVET
PAPER CHROMATOGRAPHY
ALFRED WEGENER
CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY
JAMES WATSON AND FRANCIS CRICK
DNA STRUCTURE
Information Age
Change from traditional industry to an economy based on information computerization
Information Age
Birth of personal computers
Johannes Gutenberg
– introduced movable type printing
Pre -Gutenberg World
Information could be processed in a tedious manner
Pre -Gutenberg World
Books were written and produced by hand
Pre -Gutenberg World
Information is relayed through word -of-mouth channels
Pre -Gutenberg World
Made in surfaces of clay, wax, papyrus, and parchment
Gutenberg Revolution
Introduction of printing
Gutenberg Revolution
Books were printed by presses
Gutenberg Revolution
Information could be passed up to every individual but the access was expensive
Incunabula
– books printed using presses which literally means cradle or birthplace
Post -Gutenberg World
Emergence of internet and the worldwide web
Post -Gutenberg World
Paved way to uploading and downloading of all forms of media
Post -Gutenberg World
Passing of information is much faster and easier
Charles Babbage
Computers
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai
Electronic Mail / E-mail
Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
Youtube
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
Note
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