Modern History: Technology

1760 – Industrial Revolution – Power Loom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_loom

1765 – Watt’s Steam Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

1800 – Second Agricultural Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution

1802 – Steam-powered Locomotive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive

1821 – Electromagnetic induction – Electric Motor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor

1859 – Pennsylvania Oil Rush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_oil_rush

1869 – Transcontinental Railroad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad

1869 – Suez Canal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal

1879 – Edison’s Practical Electric Light Bulb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_light

1882 – Commercial Electricity Generation and Distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation

1886 – Alternating Current Distribution and Motors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current

1886 – Internal Combustion Engine – Benz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine

1902 – Air Conditioning – Carrier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning

1903 – Wright Brothers’ Airplane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

1905 – Electric Home Appliances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_appliance

1907 – Synthetic Plastics / Bakelite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic

1914 – Panama Canal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

1915 – Home Refrigerators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator

1927 – Nonstop Transatlantic Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight

1935 – Commercial Air Travel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3

1956 – Interstate Highway System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System

1958 – Commercial Nuclear Power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_States

1960 – Laser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser

1960 – Third Agricultural Revolution (Green)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

1961 – Manned Space Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

1968 – Boeing 747

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747

1969 – Moon Landing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race

2012 – Wind Energy – largest US new power source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

2020 – Solar Energy – cheapest power source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy

Summary

Energy, transportation and manufacturing continue to advance. See separate posts for communication, computers and biology.

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