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"Weeding" the Timeline & Early Timeline Contribution Guidelines?
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For reference, this is the Industrial age (300 years):

1700-1800 - industrial factory system developed

~1730 - Classical tradition in European music (to ~1820)

1775 - first economical steam engine able to provide rotary power

1776 - The Wealth of Nations is published; first use of the phrase "the invisible hand"

1782 - construction of hot air balloon

1795 - metric system adopted in France

1796 - inoculation against smallpox reinvented

1798 — gas lighting first used

1800 — first electrochemical battery for power storage, first muskets with interchangeable parts

1801 — first practical submarine, first device programmable by punch-cards

1807 — first commercially successful steamboat

~1815 - Romantic tradition in European music (to ~ 1910)

1825 - first passenger carrying railway

1831 - experimental demonstration of electromagnetism

1837 — first exhibition of electric telegraph, first fully programmable computer designed (but not built)

1843 - first image transmission over wire (a fax machine, not widely adopted at the time)

1846 — ether used as anaesthetic

1848 — Communist Manifesto issued

1859 — publication of the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin.

1862 — construction of the first automatic gun

1864 — invention of pasteurization

1865 — first successful Atlantic telegraph cable completed, first laws of what will be called genetics

1876 — invention of the telephone

1877 — invention of the phonograph

1885 — first chain-driven bicycles

1885/6 - first internal combustion engine and automobile

1887 — first incandescent electrical lights in production

1894 — invention of the cinematograph

1895 — invention of radio telegraph

1903 - first manned powered heavier than air flight

1905 — Special Theory of Relativity formulated, the term "genetics" is coined

1908 — first mass-produced automobiles

1915 — General Theory of Relativity postulated

~1910 - "Modernist"/Experimental period in European/Western music (to end of Information Age)

1928 — discovery of first antibacterial ('antibiotic')compound

1939 — first helicopter constructed

1942 - Fermi produces first artificial atomic chain reaction

1943 - first electronic programmable computer (Turing et al.)

1945 - first use of atomic weapons

1947 - first practical transistor

1953 - structure of DNA deduced

1957 - first artificial satellite of the Earth is launched (using chemical rocket)

1961 - first human to orbit the Earth

1965 - basics of DNA coding deciphered

1966 — first unmanned moon landings

1966 - the term "sophont" is coined (Poul Anderson)

1969 - first humans to land on the Earth's moon (Start of Tranquility Calendar)

1971 - first microprocessor

1976 - the word "meme" is invented (Richard Dawkins)

1976 - Reputed birth of the original individual (name not recorded) who later became the model for the so-called '.....' spores.

1981 - the term 'toposophy' is coined (Stanislaw Lem)

1984 - first successful 'test tube baby'

1991 - advent of the World Wide Web

1995 - primitive gengineering, cloning of mammalian adults
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RE: "Weeding" the Timeline & Early Timeline Contribution Guidelines? - by QwertyYerty - 10-06-2016, 10:30 AM

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