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The Historical Tech Tree is a timeline of events in technology advancements.
We invite you to explore the tree and maybe make art out of something that catches your eye, or if not art, perhaps share an observation of its impact on the world (or not). A poem? Always accepted.
Maybe what catches your eye is the Lunar Calendars of 8000 BCE or the Moore Tube of 1896 or the Articulated Tram of […]
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I wondered about music, and specifically, about music notation writing. It brought me back to Mesopotamia.
"The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Babylonia (today's Iraq), in about 1400 BCE. The tablet represents fragmentary instructions for performing music, that the music was composed in harmonies of thirds, and that it was written using a diatonic scale." - Wikipedia link