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History of technology

  • Industrial RevolutionIn 1799, French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto announced that France had entered the race to industrialise. This marked the earliest recorded use of the phrase…
  • History of technologyLewis H. Morgan declared that technological progress was the primary factor driving human civilization in his three-stage theory of social evolution.
  • Neolithic RevolutionThe Neolithic Revolution began approximately 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. This period marked a wide-scale transition from egalitarian…
  • History of military technologyIn May 1915, German forces released a cloud of chlorine gas over the Belgian town of Ypres. This event marked the first large-scale use of poison gas in…
  • Second Industrial RevolutionIn the year 1870, a quiet shift occurred in the global economy that would reshape human civilization. This period marked the start of what historians now…