I was wondering if someone who knows would be willing to tell me the years that each technology is representing. I think it would be very helpful (at least for me) for adding units and giving stats. I'm really only looking for the industrial ages and modern ages. Thanks,

... Um, you do realize that you're essentially asking for a technological history of the human species?

Possibly, your best single shot is:

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

"HyperHistory Online." For scientific advances, select science at the bottom and click away ... There are also timelines, maps, cultural/religious history, etc.

-Oz

PS You'll soon find that the Civ3 tech tree can be wildly inaccurate, but that's another story altogether.

-O.

PPS While digging around just found this much-more streamlined timeline, well geared to the warfare aspects of Civ --

http://www.interzone.com/~cheung/Page.dir/pg.war1.html

-O.

Do you mean when the technologies where invented in real life??
if so, do you mean for the first time, or by a certain civ?

Well, i can try a few, but i don't know all of them, so here i go:

communism: right at the end of world war I ; 1917
industrial revolution: in europe about around 1830-1840
steel: invented by bessemer at around 1860
electricity: throughout 1820-1860
combustion: the first car was around 1890
atomic theory: after WW1
radio: around 1900
motorized transportation: the first tanks were introduced in WWI, but the civ-tank is a later, more WWII version
carriers were first invented at the end of WWI
flight: first plane flew in 1903, civ-fighter and bomber are more 1930s
helicopters: became practical about mid1930s
refining: around 1930
steam engine: first steamboat: 1807
first train: 1804
first steam turbine: around 1850

if you think this is ok, i might try doing the modern times next if you want :)

eriq2,

See if you can find a show called ´Connections´ that the BBC produced a while ago.

They showed how many disparate circumstances all linked to produce what we see today. History is very convoluded and messy, with ideas and firsts often happening centuries before they were commonl knowledge.

You example of rockets: CivIII uses the liquid fueled models of Robert Goddard and Verner von Braun. But the Chinese had gunpowder fueled rockets 1000 years earlier. They were used in battle as seige artillery and for celebratory fireworks.

Zeekater listed a few interesting dates. If you want to know more, you have a lot of reading to do.

D.

I mean real life and in general what times they are supposed to represent. For example rocketry - around what time was the first rocket used as a military weapon - or - what time the Jet fighters were first introduced.

eriq2,

Then Rocketry would be starting about 1944, with the first operation jet fighters like the Me262.

But the historical waters are a little muddy: Goddard and von Braun were experimenting with liquid fueled rockets all through the 1930´s. And there were scientists in Britain were building and testing jet engines all through the war.

The first military rockets were the V-1 Buzz Bombs and the V2 that the Germans used in 1944. They were not very effective as anything other than a terror weapon.

Hope that answers your question.

D.

I have no idea how the time-stamping screwed up, but if you'll scroll up a few you'll see I posted some links AFTER some of the posts between that one and this ...

-Oz

ozy,

They just did some work on the MySQL DB for the forums, and they posted a warning on the home page that the time stamps may be a bit wonky as the system catches up.

D.

Originally posted by gen.dragolen
ozy,

They just did some work on the MySQL DB for the forums, and they posted a warning on the home page that the time stamps may be a bit wonky as the system catches up.

D.

Thanks for the info! -- I do so many postings, sleep-deprived at ~4AM that I'm sometimes unsure if it's SQL or some twisted, highly localized Einsteinian time-dilation :crazyeye:

Gracias,

Oz

Great thanks a lot i guess I'll just need to search the internet a little better then.

Ozy,

No hey de que... (my spanish is a little rusty)


D.