Materials Science for Engineers 4.

5 109 years,
3rd generation star dust settles to form our solar
system 106 years, humans branch off similar
mammals, Stone tools = Stone Age 30,000
anatomically modern humans, homo sapiens
sapiens, with same mindset 10,000 invention
of agriculture in the middle East, Pottery/Glass in
Mesopotamia 4000 2000 BC Copper Age 2000
1000 BC Bronze Age, i.e. (Cu,Sn) alloys, invention
of metallurgy 1000 1 BC Iron Age 1650 Classical
physics - Mechanics 1800 Metallography /
Crystallography 1900 Physical Metallurgy, Crystal
Physics, Statistical Physics, Modern Physics, Sold
State Physics 1947 invention of transistor at Bell
Labs (Ge), Nobel prize for Physics 1956 to William
Shockley John Bardeen (also 1972) and Walter H.
Brattain 1950 Materials Science and Engineering
1955 Silicon (electronic materials, information
technology) Age 21st century Nanoscience and
Technology