This document provides a timeline of key milestones in product design from 1452 to 2000 AD. Some highlights include: - Leonardo da Vinci in 1488 being one of the first known product designers with designs for flying machines. - The 1st Industrial Revolution between 1760-1830 driving advances in textiles, metallurgy and machine tools. - Inventions like the chair no. 14, riveted jeans, the fountain pen, Wright brothers' airplane, and Ford's Model T car between 1859-1908. - Advances in consumer and computing technologies from the 1930s onwards including the Volkswagen Beetle, Bic ballpoint pen, Sony Walk

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First Known Product Designer?
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
PD73002 Product Design Concept & Application
History of Product Design
Dr. Krates Ng
Flying Machine (1488)
Fall 2008
1760-1830
• 1st Industrial Revolution
Some Key Milestones
• Romantic Movement
1st industrial revolution Romantic Movement
Improved Steam Engine • Music
– Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn
• Visual Art
– Turner, Constable
• Literature
– Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo
James Watt (1736-1819)
Textiles, Metallurgy, Mining, Chemicals, Machine
Tools, Glass making
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1859 1868
• Michael Thonet (1796-1871) • Christopher Latham Sholes (1815-1891)
Chair No. 14
Sholes working model
1873 1880
• Levi Strauss (1829-1902) • Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
• Jacob Davis (1831-1908)
Riveted jeans
Long lasting filament electric light
1884 1891
• Lewis Edson Waterman (1837-1901) • Karl Elsender (1860-1918)
First practical fountain pen
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1903 1908
• Wright Brothers • Ford Model T
First powered aircraft Flyer I, II, III
1914 1915
• Bell’s Candlestick Telephone • “Big Willie” Tank
1934 1936
• Carl Breer • R.J. Mitchell
Spitfire monoplane prototype (K5054)
Chrysler’s Airflow car
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1938 1946
• Volkswagen • Piaggio
Beetle
Vespa scooter is launched
1948 1949
• Porsche • Henry Dreyfuss
Model 500 Telephone for Bell
First Prosche car 356 Roadster is launched
1950 1951
• Bic • Tetra Pak
Biro ball point pen is launched
First Tetra Pak packaging is launched
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1959 1961
• Sir Alec Issigonis • Eliot Fette Noyes
IBM Selectric “golfball” typewriter
Morris Mini is launched
1963 1969
• Porsche • British Aircraft Corp. and Aerospatiale
911 is launched
First flight of Concorde
1971 1979
• Lamborghini • Sony
The 1st Walkman is launched
Countach LP500S prototype
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1981 1984
• NASA • Apple Inc.
First space shuttle Columbia mission is launched
Macintosh 128K
1998 1999
• Apple Inc. • SONY
Aibo ERS-110
2000 Home Assignments
• Apple Inc. 1. Your classic object at home
2. Research on Art deco and Bauhaus
Presentation next week!
iPod first generation is launched
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