07-09-2025, 03:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 03:29 PM by Mike Watterson.)
My sons would likely split at metal can transistors and canned ICs vs plastic and DIL ICs :D Or Silicon vs Germanium.
One suggested the start of the Modern Era was 1970s. I pointed out that rectangular plugs, TV and computers all existed before 1950. Fax, electric telegraph, phone, mechanical TV, records, radio telegraphh, typewriter, submarine, turbines, electric light, neon lamps etc all are 19th C.
Historians:
Early Modern is about 14th to 16th C, depending on region. Gunpowder reaches England.
Modern Era started about 17th C. Steam power squeaks in.
Electrical Age starts about 1800 (Volta and Battery experiments 1799).
One suggested the start of the Modern Era was 1970s. I pointed out that rectangular plugs, TV and computers all existed before 1950. Fax, electric telegraph, phone, mechanical TV, records, radio telegraphh, typewriter, submarine, turbines, electric light, neon lamps etc all are 19th C.
Historians:
Early Modern is about 14th to 16th C, depending on region. Gunpowder reaches England.
Modern Era started about 17th C. Steam power squeaks in.
Electrical Age starts about 1800 (Volta and Battery experiments 1799).
