Which invention is regarded as the first Technological revolution ? What change did it bring in the life of the early man?
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The most known example of technological revolution was the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the scientific-technical revolution about 1950–1960, the Neolithic revolution, the Digital revolution and so on. The notion of "technological revolution" is frequently overused, therefore it is not easy to define which technological revolutions having occurred during world history were really crucial and influenced not only one segment of human activity, but had a universal impact. One universal technological revolution should be composed from several sectoral technological revolutions (in science, industry, transport and the like).
We can identify several universal technological revolutions which occurred during the modern era in Western culture:[4]
1. Financial-agricultural revolution (1600–1740)
2. Industrial revolution (1780–1840)
3. Technical revolution or Second Industrial Revolution (1870–1920)
4. Scientific-technical revolution (1940–1970)
5. Information and telecommunications revolution (1975–present)
Axe made of iron, dating from Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden: the iron—as a
new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics