Engineering History Lesson

- Walt Disney

" The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." 

​Rules & Procedures

​Rules & Procedures

​Regarding electronics and personal behavior...

• NO CELL PHONES! NO EAR BUDS!!

• Use Chromebooks, Laptops, and any other electronic devices ONLY as instructed by your teacher!

• NO PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES

• NO PRANKING OF ANY KIND

• NO HORSEPLAY AT ALL

• Come in each day, get to work, stay focused on your classwork the entire class session. If you don't know what to do, ASK!

​Earliest Known Evidence for Engineering

​Earliest Known Evidence for Engineering

5,500-6,000 years ago.
3,500-4,000 BCE/BC

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​Earliest Known Evidence for Engineering

5,500-6,000 years ago.
3,500-4,000 BCE/BC

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​Earliest Known Evidence for Engineering

• Temples

• Wheel

• Farming Tools

• Hunting Tools

​Wheels were considered INNOVATION and were most likely used for pottery

• ​The need for dishes, cups, vessels for preserving food, documents, etc. came WAY before the need for travel.
  
  

• The earliest known applications for the wheel were NOT transportation, but rather for making household items needed for people to survive.

• Mesopotamian Pottery dating back to 2,700 BC (almost 5,000 years ago)

• This pottery jar is from around 2750 BC - 2500 BC. The style of pottery is known as Ninevite 5, since it was limited to a level number 5 during an excavation in Nineveh in 1931 – 1932 BC. This type of pottery has been found in multiple sites in northern Mesopotamia and is considered to be common. The person who created this piece first took the clay and shaped it on a wheel to a bowl. They then used incisions to make patterns on it and paint it and finally they would fire it.

5,500-6,000 years ago.
3,500-4,000 BCE/BC

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​Earliest Known Evidence for Engineering

• Temples

• Wheel

• Farming Tools

• Hunting Tools

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​Egyptian Pyramids (2500 BCE/BC)

​Sphynx (2500 BCE/BC)

​Ziggurat (2000 BCE/BC)

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Multiple Choice

Which theme in history is best represented by the invention of the wheel?

• War

• Innovation

• Colonization

• Agriculture

Multiple Choice

Who is credited for the invention of the wheel?

• Mesopotamians

• Egyptians

• Cavemen

• The Wright Brothers

Multiple Choice

This civilization got the world "rolling" by inventing the first wheel?

• China

• India

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

Multiple Choice

The oldest structure known to humanity is called the Anu Ziggurat. What year was it built?

• 4000 BC

• 2000 BC

• 1 AD

• 1750 AD

Multiple Choice

The oldest, most well-preserved structure known to humanity is called the Ziggurat of Ur. What year was it built?

• 4000 BC

• 2000 BC

• 500 BC

• 500 AD

Multiple Choice

Guess what? The earliest wheels weren't used for zooming around. What was their primary purpose?

• Transportation

• Pottery making

• Grinding grain

• As toys

​650 BC

​2,700 years ago

​500 BC ---- 500 AD

​Roman Empire

​Puente Romano, Mérida, the world's longest (still in use) surviving Roman bridge

​500 BC ---- 500 AD

​Roman Empire

Bridges, Roads, Aquaducts, Bathhouses, Running Water

​Printing Press - 1440 AD

​Johannes Gutenberg is known as the “Father of Printing” because he was the first to combine the use of molded movable metal type, a press, and printer’s ink.

​Steam Engine - 1700s AD

Thomas Savery is considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam-powered device, a steam pump that used steam pressure operating directly on the water. The first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine was developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen.

​First Trains - 1800s AD

1831: The first locomotive to pull a passenger train in New York State, and one of the earliest anywhere, was the wood-burning DeWitt Clinton. Powered by steam, it pulled three coaches of from Albany to Schenectady, New York, for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad. The Clinton was 11.5 feet long and weighed more than three tons. It managed the 12-mile distance in 46 minutes.

​First Camera - 1816

This was the first device that could capture and reproduce an image.

This device was designed by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1816, and it was called the “heliograph”.

It was so big that it required about 5–7 men to operate it.

​First "Cars" - Late 1800s AD

​The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879. Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit.

​Henry Ford's Model T - 1908

Henry Ford generally gets the credit for the first assembly line and the production of cars en masse, with the Model T, in 1908.

​First Planes - 1900s AD

​Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls.

​First Computers - 1950s AD

The first computers were as large as rooms, and people worked "inside" the computer and had to have a knowledge and understanding of binary code as they watched light bulbs, read punch cards, and interpreted data to understand what was going on.

​Moon Landing

On July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another world. With Neil Armstrong's small step for a single man, humankind took a great leap forward into the space age, demonstrating our potential for reaching other planets and extending the reach of human civilization far beyond our Earthly bonds. In 2024, Elon Musk is making efforts to go back to the moon, as well as making plans to get us to Mars!

Multiple Choice

Who is credited with the invention of the printing press?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

Multiple Choice

Which ancient civilization is known for building the pyramids?

• Mesopotamians

• Egyptians

• Romans

• Chinese

Multiple Choice

The Wright Brothers took flight when?

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1900s

• 2000s

Multiple Choice

When did the first airplane take flight?

• 18th century AD

• 19th century AD

• 20th century AD

• 21st century AD

Multiple Choice

Who build the first car?

• Carl Marx

• Carl Benz

• Henry Ford

• Ferruccio Lamborghini

Multiple Choice

When was electricity "invented" thus making it widely accessible to common people?

• 1200s AD

• 1500s AD

• 1700s AD

• 1900s AD

Multiple Choice

When did the "United States of America" experience its birth by signing the Declaration of Independence?

• 1492 AD

• 1652 AD

• 1776 AD

• 1957 AD

Multiple Choice

When did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• 1500 AD

• 1650 AD

• 1750 AD

• 1900 AD

Multiple Choice

Who gave us the first roads, bridges, and public water works?

• Mesopotamians

• Egyptians

• Romans

• Chinese

Multiple Choice

When was the Roman Empire in its height of power and development?

• 2000 BC to Year 1 AD

• 500 BC - 500 AD

• 2500 BC - 500 BC

• 50 AD - 1000 AD

Personal Computers - 1980/90s AD

On August 12, 1981, IBM joined the computer race by introducing the IBM 5150 PC (personal computer). It featured the 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 CPU (central processing unit), 16 kB base memory, and the Model F keyboard. Its retail price was $1,565.

​Personal Computers - 2010/2020s AD

​First Cell Phones

Martin Cooper, engineer and inventor, made the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973.

​First Flip Phones

Flip phones were all the rage in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

​Smart Phones

Smart phones surfaced in the late 2000s and now dominate the cell phone industry.

​Modern Day...

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