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The history of the tools we live with.
Tech Timelines follows technology through its milestones: the inventions, the breakthroughs and the people who built them. From the printing press and the steam engine to the transistor, the microchip and the network, every story is a stop on one long line.
How we write
We tell the story of how things were made: what came before, who worked on it, what went wrong and what it changed. Where credit for an invention is disputed, we say so and name the rivals.
We do not invent quotations, figures or details. Dates, names and specifications come from the record.
Part of a network
Tech Timelines is one of the sites of The Timeline Network, alongside timelines of cinema, comedy, film, music, politics, science fiction and UFOs.