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AGES
| History |
| Metal & Alloys |
| AGES |
Humans have been making use of materials before
the Stone Age, but materials science did not
take off
until the early nineteenth
century.
| 8000 B.C. | : | Hammered copper | 1889 | : |
Nickel-steel alloy |
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| 7000 | : | Clay pottery | 1891 | : | Silicon carbide (first artificial abraisive) | |
| 6000 | : | Silk production | ||||
| 5000 | : | Glass making | 1896 | : | Discovery of radioactivity | |
| 4000 | : | Smelted copper | 1906 | : | Triode vacuum tube | |
| 4000-3000 | : | Bronze Age | 1910 | : | Electric furnace steelmaking | |
| 3200 | : | Linen cloth | 1913 | : | Hydrogenation to liquefy coal | |
| 2500 | : | Wall plaster, Papyrus | 1914 | : | X-ray diffraction introduced | |
| 1000 | : | Iron Age | 1923 | : |
Tungsten carbide cuting materials |
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| 300 | : | Glass blowing | ||||
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20 |
: | Brass alloy | 1930 | : |
Fibre glass |
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| AD - 105 | : | Paper | 1934 | : | Discovery of amorphous metallic alloys | |
| 600-900 | : | Porcelain | ||||
| 1540 | : | Foundry operation | 1937 | : | Nylon | |
| late 1500s | : | Magnetisation of iron demonstrated | 1940s | : | Synthetic polymers | |
| 1947 | : | Germanium transistor | ||||
| 1729 | : | Electrical Conductivity of | 1950 | : | Commercial production f titanium | |
| : | metals demonstrated | |||||
| 1774 | Crude steel | 1952 | : | Oxygen furnace for steelmaking | ||
| 1789 | : | Identification of Uranium | ||||
| 1789 | : | Discovery of titanium | 1950s | : | Silicon photovoltaic cells | |
| 1800 | : | Volta's electrical pile (battery) | 1950s | : | Transmission electron microscope | |
| 1824 | : | Portland cement | mid 1950s | : | Silicon transistor | |
| 1839 | : | Vulcanisation of rubber | 1957 | : | First supercritical U.S. coal plant | |
| 1850 | : | Porcelain insulators | ||||
| 1850s | : | Reinforced concrete | 1958 | : | Ruby-crystal laser | |
| 1856 | : | Bessemer steelmaking | 159 | : | Integrated circuit | |
| 1866 | Discovery of polymeric compounds | 1960 | : | Production of amorphous metal alloy | ||
| 1866 | : | Microstructure of steel discovered | 1960 | : | Artificial diamond production | |
| 1960s | : | Microalloyed steels | ||||
| 1868 | : | Commercial steel alloy | 1960s | : | Scanning electron microscope | |
| 1870 | Celluloid | |||||
| 1871 | : | Periodic table of elements | 1966 | : | Fibre optics | |
| 1875 | : | Open-hearth steelmaking | late 1970s | : | Discovery of amorphous silicon | |
| 1880 | : | Selenium photovoltaic cells | ||||
| 1884 | : | Nitrocellulose (First man-made fibre) | 1984 | : | Discovery of quasi-periodic crystals | |
| 1886 | : | Electrolytic process for aluminium | 1986 | : | Discovery of high-temperature super conductors | |
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See also, Timeline of Ancient India (http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm) |
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