1. Past, Present and Future:
A History of Human Engineering
TE8490: Intro to Engineering
2. Overview of the Ages in Mankind
Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Pre-Scientific Revolution
Industrial Revolution
2nd Industrial Revolution
Information Age Where we are now
4. Hunters and Gathers
“Old Stone Age”, “Prehistory”, “Ancient
Era”
10,000+ - 5,000 years BC
Engineered tools: fire, clothes,
Arrowheads, baskets, the wheel and
rafts.
5. Neolithic – New Stone Age
4,500 - 2,000 BC
Pottery, Statues, cooking tools, stone
axes, grinding stone, houses, loom
and canoes
6. Bronze Age
2100~ - 1200 BC
Early human civilizations smelting
smelting its own copper, alloying with
Tin or trading for it.
The Rise of Civilizations
◦ Ancient Egypt
◦ Ancient Rome/Greece
◦ Chinese Dynasty
◦ Ancient Mayans
7. Mankind had perfected the art of
crafting stone structures
From Pyramids to Stone Coliseums
Using metal to reinforce weapons,
early transportation
8. Seven Wonders of the
World consists of:
The Great Pyramid of
Giza (the most ancient as
well as the only surviving
structure), the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon,
the Temple of Artemis at
Ephesus, the Statue of
Zeus at Olympia,
the Mausoleum of
Maussollos at
Halicarnassus,
the Colossus of Rhodes,
and the Lighthouse of
Alexandria.
9. Iron Age
1200 BC – 400 AD
Known for improvements with humans
working with metals and forming better and
improved weapons: (i.e. swords, daggers
as well as better farming equipment)
10. The Separation of the Iron Age to
the Pre Scientific Age
One thousand years ago, superstition
and the sword ruled.
It was a time of darkness. It was a
world of fear.
At this time mankind was choosing to
not believe in myth and magic and
scientific reasoning was beginning to
set in.
11. Pre-Scientific Age
400~ AD – 1500~ AD
Think medieval times, with bows and
arrows, trebuchet/catapults and siege
engines. Featuring guillitines and broader
studies into the sciences of electricity,
machinery and chemistry.
Let’s call this a Prelude to Steampunk
12. Industrial Age
1750s- 1820s~1840s
Now we are getting to the good stuff.
2nd
14. Second Industrial Revolution
1860s~1914~
It is considered to have begun around the time of
the introduction of Bessemer steel in the 1860s
and culminated in early factory electrification, mass
production and the production line.
Also Railroads, highways, steam power, oil power
Telegraph, telephone and Radio
Maritime Surge: Screw Propeller, oscillating
engine, iron steamboat, surface condenser, paddle
wheel and ironclad battleships.
15. Atomic Age
(1945~1954)
Dropping of
the first
atomic bomb
and
the Red
Scare/
McCarthyism
(1947-1954)
17. Information Age
Also known as the Digital Revolution,
Computer Age, Digital Age
Late 1970s to the present
It is the change
from analog, mechanical,
and electronic technology to digital
technology
18. The Future?
Robotics
Electrical
Bioengineering
Editor's Notes
Top 13 need-to-know
Fall Out Game
Dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Red Scare/McKarthyism (1947-1954) Space Race- Nasa