1. Toffler’s Wave Theory Timeline
Toffler’s Three Waves
Work
Nature, society and culture
Technological Advances
Scientific Discoveries
Education
Brittany Hunt
EDUC 7100
Summer 2013

2. 6 Strands Overview
Strand 1: Toffler’s three waves
Wave One: Agriculture Age
Wave Two: Industrial Age
Wave Three: Industrial Age
Wave Four: Communication Age
Strand 2: Key Technological Advances and innovations for each decade
Economic growth, expansion, unemployment, fossil fuel powered era, global warming and carbon emission beginning
Strand 3: Work
Business and corporate philosophies by decade
Strand 4: Education
Important theories of learning and instruction by decade
Strand 5: Nature, Society and Culture
Events that determined the thinking of each decade.
Strand 6: Scientific Discoveries

3. Strand 1 8000 BC – Agricultural Age: 1800 – Industrial Age 1950 –
Information Age
1970 –present
Communication Age

4. 1900 1901- Nordstrom and Walgreens established.
1900-The Brownie camera was invented; began the Eastman Kodak company
1901- Mercedes 35 HP, a radical early car model was designed by Wilhelm Maybach and Paul Daimler
1906- Sound radio broadcasting was invented by Reginald Fessenden
1901- Nordstrom and Walgreens established.
1903- Ford Motor Company and Kraft Foods established
1906- Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad, Kellogg Company and Dr. Scholl’s established
Association of American Universities was formed to promote high standards among universities
First elementary founded by John Dewey
8,000 cars and 10 miles of paved roads
People were very clothes conscious and clothes were “costumy”
Women arrested for smoking in public
Average worker made $12.98/wk for 59 hrs
1900- Planck discovers the quantum nature of energy
1903- Wright brothers flew the first motorized plane
1909- Ehrlich finds cure for syphilis

5. 1910s
1911- Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912- Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
1910- Black and Decker was established
1910- Paramount Records was founded
1913- Prada was founded
1918- Dickies was founded
The decade was marked by a severe shortage of teachers
1913- Edward Lee Thorndike published “Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning”
2,150,000 people unemployed
12 day cruise $60
Whiskey $3.50/gallon, milk $0.32/gallon
Average salary $750/yr
1910- Halley’s Comet Makes an Appearance
1911- Ernest Rutherford discovers the Structure of an Atom
1918- Daylight Savings Time introduced

6. 1920s 1923- Garret Morgan invented the traffic signal.
1927- first modern and practical respirator nicknamed the “iron lung” was invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw.
1921- Greyhound Motors established
1921- Mitsubishi Electric established
1926- National Broadcasting Company formed.
1922- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) formed
1926-Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) first administered
1929- Jean Piaget’s “The Child Conception of the World” published detailing his theory of cognitive development.
Unemployment rate 5.2%
Teacher’s salary $970; avg annual earning $1236
Gangland crime included murder, swindles, racketeering
1920- Frederick Banting and Charles Best co-discover insulin
1923- First vaccine for Diphtheria
1929- Oskar Klein discovers the Klein paradox

7. 1930s 1930- Photoflash bulb replaces dangerous flash powder
1930- Lowell Thomas begins first U.S. network newscast
1935- Magnetophone recorder invented
1930- Publix Super Markets, Inc. founded
1934- Walt Disney Animation Studios began to operate as a feature animation studio.
1937- US Airways established.
1931- Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District first successful school desegregation case
Average yearly salary: $1,368
21 lynchings
2,787,400 car sales
Great Depression
1930- Pluto Discovered
1931- Auguste Piccard reaches stratosphere
1932- Scientists Split the atom

8. 1940s 1940- The Frawley Pen Company (Paper Mate) launched
1940- Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system
1942- John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer
1946- microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1940- The Frawley Pen Company (Paper Mate) launched
1943- Jo-Ann Stores Inc founded
1947- H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) retail stores was established.
1942- General Equivalency Diploma program was established
1947- Educational Testing Service is founded
National Debt $43 Billion
Teacher’s salary $1,441
34,500 auto deaths
Cold War began
55% of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing
1948- “Big Bang” Theory formulated
1949- Soviet Union has Atomic Bomb

9. 1950s
1951- Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder (VTR)
1953- David Warren invented the black box-flight recorder
1955- Optic fiber invented
1950- David’s Bridal established
1952- Holiday Inn established
1955- Aflac Incorporated founded
1959- Conair Corporation was founded
1953- BF Skinner’s “Science and Human Behavior” published influencing American education
1954- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled separate is not equal.
Population: 151,684,000
3,288,000 people unemployed
1955- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus
Bomb shelter plans, like the gov’t pamphlet You Can Survive, became widely available.
1950- First Organ transplant
1952- Polio Vaccine created
1953- DNA Discovered
1957- Sputnik launches space age

10. 1960s 1960- Shoe Show, Inc. was founded 1960- Inclusion was introduced
1962- Audio cassette invented
1962- Spacewar, the first computer video game invented
1964- BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
1960- Shoe Show, Inc. was founded
1961- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts was established
1968- Intel Corporation was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce
1960- Inclusion was introduced
1963- Samuel Kirk coins the term “Learning Disability”
1965- Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) passed (lead to Title 1)
Minimum wage $1.00
Teacher’s Salary: $5,174
th Street Baptist Church Bombing
1964- Civil Rights Act Passed in U.S.
1960- birth control pill is approved by the FDA
1961- Soviets launch first man in space
1963- First woman in space

11. 1970s 1970- FedEx Office established
1970- The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart
1971- the liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
1973-The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
1970- FedEx Office established
1973- Re/Max International was founded.
1975- El Pollo Loco established
1975- Chili’s Grill & Bar was established
1972- Title IX passed prohibiting discrimination under any education program receiving federal financial assistance.
1975- “Free Appropriate public education” in least restrictive setting.
National Debt: $382 billion
Average salary: $7,564
1970- Beatles broke up
1972- Terrorists attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
1973- Gene splicing invented
1974- Giorgio Fischer invented liposuction
1978- first test-tube baby born

12. 1980s 1985- Windows program invented by Microsoft
1986- Fuju introduced the disposable camera
1987- first 3D video game invented
1980- HobbyTown USA was founded
1983- HBO Films was created.
1986- Acura was formed as the luxury vehicle division of Honda Motor Company.
1982- US Supreme Court invalidates “Creationism Act”
1984- Emergency Immigration Education Act enacted providing services and offsetting the cost of school districts that have large numbers of immigrant students
1986-National Debt $2 trillion
1987- Disposable contact lenses invented
BMW was $12,000
20 million people attended movies/week
1980- Hepatitis B vaccine invented
1982- Human growth hormone genetically engineered
1988- Doppler radar invented by Christian Doppler

13. 1990s
1990- The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee
1990- Jamba Juice Company was founded
1994- Dreamworks Studios was established
1996- Dish Network Corporation was founded
1992- First charter school appears in Michigan (City Academic High School)
1993- Massachusetts Education Reform Act requires common curriculum and statewide tests.
1990- Nelson Mandela Freed
1992- Riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King Verdict
Minimum wage: $5.15
Teacher’s Salary: $39,347
1994- HIV protease inhibitor invented
1997- The gas-powered fuel cell invented
1999- Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth

14. 2000s 2002- Virtual Keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB
2003- Toyota invented the Hybrid Car
2003- Optical Camouflage System invented
2000- Aviation Technology Group was founded
2005- Billionaire Boys Club (BBC) clothing line was established
2009- Maybach Music Group (MMG) was created
2001– No Child Left Behind Act signed into law.
2003- Higher Education Act is reauthorized, expanding access to higher education for low & middle income students.
2001- Apple announced their portable music digital player the iPod
2001- World Trade Center bombing
2005- YouTube was invented
Barack Obama elected as first African American president.
2001- Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation
2001- AbioCor artificial heart invented
2001- British scientists identified three new planets outside our Solar System