This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.As civlization developed, so did the need for units of measurement. Th ...
In the early part of the 20th century, most engineering schools had a department of metallurgy and perhaps of ceramics as well. Much effort was expended on consideration of the austenite-martensite-ce ...
In the 16th century, Vannoccio Biringuccio publishes his Pirotechnia, the first systematic book on metallurgy, Georg Agricola writes De Re Metallica, an influential book on metallurgy and mining, and ...
In the 8th century, porcelain is invented in Tang Dynasty China, and the tin-glazing of ceramics is invented by Arabic chemists and potters in Basra, Iraq.In the 9th century, stonepaste ceramics were ...
Wood, bone, stone, and earth are some of the materials which formed the structures of the Roman empire. Certain structures were made possible by the character of the land upon which these structures a ...
The materials used by different cultures in most cases were the only records left for anthropologists to define the civilization. The progressive use of more sophisticated materials showed an innovati ...
The history of materials science is the study of how different materials were used as influenced by the history of Earth and the culture of the peoples of the Earth.
11th century1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty China: The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sh ...
1st century1st century: Buttress dam in Roman Empire2nd century132: Seismometer in Han Dynasty China, built by Zhang Heng. It was a large metal urn-shaped instrument which employed either a suspended ...
7th century BCmid-7th century BC: Two-masted ships (foresail) by Etruscans in Italy6th century BCWith the Greco-Roman trispastos ("three-pulley-crane"), the simplest ancient crane, a single man triple ...
Note that the dates in the Paleolithic era are approximate and refer to the earliest discovered use of an invention, and are likely to change as more research is done and older sites are found. Simila ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often i ...
Prior to the second world war the subject was commonly known as 'radio engineering' and basically was restricted to aspects of communications and RADAR, commercial radio and early television. At this ...
The second world war saw tremendous advances in the field of electronics; especially in RADAR and with the invention of the magnetron by Randall and Boot at the University of Birmingham in 1940. Radio ...
John Fleming invented the first radio tube, the diode, in 1904.Reginald Fessenden recognized that a continuous wave needed to be generated to make speech transmission possible, and he continued the wo ...
