Timeline

Timeline

By: Dee Jones

Homing Pigeons

• Homing Pigeons are interesting birds. • They are different from pigeons you would

see at parks because they are able to find their way home when released from distances, hundreds of miles from home.

• Scientists think Homing Pigeons have Magnetite within

• Homing bird look muscular than a wild pigeons.

• First recorded use of homing pigeons to send a message in 776 Bc.

Papyrus Rolls

• A classical papyrus roll differs slightly than the scroll that most modern people imagine.

• It was invented in 500bc.• The roll can easily be read column by column

from left to right.

Foot and Horseback Messenger

• Foot & horseback messengers common n Egypt & China in 200bc through 100bc.

Blaise Pascal

• He invented the adding machine in 1642.• He was a mathematician and a philosopher

invented a so-called adding machine.

Steamboat Patent

• The first steamboat patent was issued to Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet in 1788.

• In 1769, the Scotsman James Watt patented an improved version of the steam engine that ushered in the Industrial Evolution.

Semaphore Telegraph Line

• In 1793 a Frenchman came up with a suggestion that would transform long-distance communications.

• Long distance semaphore telegraph line invented by Claude Chappe in 1793.

Steam Locomotive

• Richard Trevithick granted a patent for the steam locomotive in 1802.

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