ARCHI MECHA
Innovation for business.
Design office - Mechanical engineering.
Little history of innovation:
Paleolithic
Man makes tools, creates works of art, lives in small nomadic groups and practices hunting and gathering.
Neolithic (-10000 before JC)
Man settles down, he practices agriculture and breeding.
Antiquity (-3500 before JC)
Man turns into a builder and discovers mathematics, astronomy, military strategy, commerce, politics, philosophy ...
Renaissance period (15th century)
The rediscovery of the writings of antiquity opens the way to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
1769
Watt is developing a steam engine that converts steam produced by coal-fired water into mechanical energy.
1779
Crompton builds a mechanical weaving machine: the "mule-jenny".
1825
Stephenson invents the locomotive and creates the first railway line open to the public.
1839
Niépce invents photography.
1851
First world exhibition, in London.
1855
The Bessemer process facilitates the production of steel.
1858
Étienne Lenoir invents the gasoline engine.
1863
Louis Pasteur develops pasteurization.
1876
Bell invents the phone.
1882
Edison invents the light bulb.
1886
With the help of its combustion engine, Carl Benz develops the first automobile.
1895
The Lumière brothers are planning the first cinematographic film.
1896
Marconi develops the first radio communication: wireless telegraphy.
1898
Pierre and Marie Curie succeed in isolating radium, thus opening the way to nuclear physics.
1903
The Wright brothers make their first motorized flight.
1911
Taylor publishes "The Principles of Scientific Management" where he presents a scientific organization of work through the separation of tasks.
1914
Henry Ford introduces a new way of working: assembly line.
1916
Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.
1969
Hoff and Faggin, engineers at Intel, invent the microprocessor, opening the era of microcomputers