The Creations of Mankind

Mankind

road to his great achievements was when a caveman picked

up a heavy stone to help him.

The Use of Fire

the invention of the wheel by some unknown prehistoric genius.

Man had efficient metal weapons and was able to hunt large animals for food.

Gradually, he learned to capture and tame some of the creatures, so that hе could
keep his food nearby until it was needed.

wild pants, which he knew to be useful. Once farming

was established, it did not take man long to make special tools for breaking up the ground, and later he began to use the help of domestic animals in pulling his primitive plough.

Cultivating Land

knowledge was writing. At first, writing was a special form

of drawing, and was usually very simple. But gradually these primitive drawings turned into letters.

men an opportunity to read and to own books which

before had been available to only the wealthy few.

The invention of printing

The eighteenth century is associated with many inventions and culminated in
the Industrial Revolution.
The invention of the steam engine, the condenser and piston made possible
modern manufacturing processes.

man realized that many hard tasks could be done more

easily and cheaply by machinery.

Machinery

The nineteenth century also saw the invention of electricity, which revolutionized
life and made many other things possible.

new era in transport,
and led to the appearance of

lorries and buses, without which
our cities would not have grown to their present size.

the inventions of television, computers, spacecraft, genetic engineering and many

others.

Progress in Technology

men who lived before us

All our discoveries today are based

on the ideas of men who lived before us.

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