The Time Before the Internet

By Veronica and Katie

The Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg was the person that invented the printing press.

It could print 3,600 pages per day.After the printing press was invented 2 others were discovered books newspapers. The

printing press was invented in 1450.The printing press was made from paper or cloth. The printing press sizes 5 to7 feet long 3 feet wide and 7 feet tall.After the printing press was invented all over the world wanted it like Germany Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Bohemia, and Poland.

The Typewriter In the year 1808, by a man named Pellegrino Turri created a machine once known as the Typewriter. The machine was once used to create a neater text with more ease and a better look. It was a means of adding ink onto paper with a method of a keyboard.

-The typewriter had no backspace on it, this meant that mistakes had to be eased by hand, but some typewriters had a key titled “eet”, which was a key that would let you re-type over any typos.

-There is a myth surrounding that the typewriter was created by a man named “Qwert Yuiop”, who left their signature on the keyboard, but in fact this story is nothing but a myth.

-The reason the keyboard has the “Qwerty” layout was so the machine’s keys did not get stuck from the constant typing of keys used often that where close together; it was also for the pure ease of fast typing. The “Qwerty” layout was kept because it was already so used and it would if just confused people who were used to the old layout. Even if the layout is not top of the line, it is the simplest.

-The typewriter is still used in many parts of the world, a popular part being India.

Horse Drawn Carriage The horse drawn carriage or also as known as Chariot as built by proto-Indo

Europeans in 3000 B.C. The horse were used for ancient Warfare The year of the horse drawn carriage is unknown?In 1858 the horse drawn carriage for the first were drawn to new York.With the horse carriage lots of people could travel all over the world in the House carriage instead of walking.

The TelescopeThe first discovery of the telescope was in 1608The person that invented the telescope was Zacharias JanssenThis invention stared in the 17th century With this invention lot of question were answered like the world is round not

flat.After the the telescope was invented they discovered they were other

planets and billions of stars

The TelephoneIn 1876, a world class invention still being used today was first created by Alexander

Graham Bell. The telephone is an important invention that was created for the purpose of letting two individuals communicates from long distances away. The popularity of the telephone soon grew when business adapted the idea into their system. Today, the Telephone has transformed from a large booth on the wall to the small devices we keep in our pockets.

-Originally, numbers where non-existent, but names instead. The operators found it more convineate, and changed it to numbers instead.

-The word “telephone” comes from the Greek word meaning “distant voice”-The first cellphone coast about 4,000$

The Watch

In 1504, the first portable timepiece was invented by Peter Henlein. Even though the invention was not very accurate at all, it was still the mark of a new and important invention that we still use a lot today.

-The word clock comes from the French word, “cloche”.-the First alarm clock was invented by the Greeks, who used rising

water to trigger a whistle. The machine was built around 250BC.

-The first self-winding watch was invented in 1923.-The very first wrist-watch started as a pocket watch tied to a

man’s wrist.

Ice hockey Ice hockey was invented in 1873The person that invented ice hockey was Tommy GormanIn the very first ice hockey game there was no rules After a few months many others like Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary wanted to

be part of this gameIn 162 of 177 they medals at the IIHF World Championships I have been

taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Flinland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United states.

Computers • The very first computer was not invented by one, but • many inventors over a period of many different years.

Today the computer is an item found in almost every house-hold, used for daily things, work related, and just wasting time on. Despite how technology advanced it is, the first commercial computer was not released until 1951.

-The first consumer computers were released in 1977, most invented by the company known today as Apple.

-The mouse was named such because it had a tail like that of a real mouse.

-The first freely programmable computer was built in 1936.-In 1985, Microsoft first began its “war” with Apple in creating

computers.

PizzaThe word ”pizza” as documented the first time in 976 in Gaeta and

successively in different parts of Central and South Italy, the history of the dish itself is not very clear or well documented.

Pizza first made its appearance in the United States with the arrival of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century and was very popular among large Italian populations in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The innovation that gave us the flat bread we call pizza was the use of tomato as a topping

For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from

the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many

Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family).

The Compass

The first compasses were invented in China, back in the Qin Dynasty, between the years of 221-206 B.C as a means to track the world’s magnetic field and

aid in navigation on ships or travel. Compasses are known today for always pointing north, thus great to tell which direction you are going and to help follow maps.

-The first stones used where lodestones, first used when someone realized they always pointed north and south.

-The first person to use a compass in navigational aid was Zheng. He was from China in a voyage in 1405.

ToiletThe inventers of the Toilet are John Harington, Al-Jazari, Joseph BramahThe toilet was invented in 1596 The toilet was invented to make the world a more hygineic place to live in and

to stop spreading a deadly disease called bubonic plague which was caused by bacterium and yersinia pestis the deases vector were rodents ECT. Rats And Fleas!!

The word toilet came to be used in English along with other French fashions (first noted 1681)

RadioIn the year 1894, the first radio was built by a man named Nikolai Tesla. The

debut of the first radio marked a new era in communication and sharing within the houses of people without even having to move a foot. Even if the radio is not as popular as it was in its day, the radio is sure-fire of being one of the biggest uses in media today.

-The first uses of the radio were for communication on ships. -Europe’s most popular station is BBC, which was founded in 1922.

The High Heel shoes Would you believe that high heels date back as far as 3500 B.C. Mostly worn

by the higher classes for ceremonies. High heels shoes were invented in 1519

Most of the lower class in ancient Egypt walked barefoot, but figures on murals dating from 3500 B.C.

The TV

The inventers of the TV are Charles Francis Jenkins and Philo Farnsworth

The TV was invented in 1873It took them 3 years to make the TVAfter the TV was invented people all over the world wanted the

TV right a way.