Technology: a world history

Stone Age technology

Hydraulic civilizations (4000-1500 BCE)

Iron, horses, and empires (1500 BCE-500 CE)

Postclassical and Medieval revolutions (500-1400)

An age of global interactions (1300-1800)

The first industrial revolution (1750-1869)

The acceleration of change (1869-1939)

Toward a postindustrial world (1939-2007).