Historical Timeline and Predecessor Assessment Draft

This week, you will submit a team-combined-into-a single-uploaded draft of your Historical Timeline and Predecessor Assessment. This portion of the Course Project will include a historical timeline that diagrams (at least one predecessor per teammate) the emergent technology and a written assessment explaining how these technologies influenced the development of the current technology (roughly two pages per team, APA format). Realizing that one timeline may not fit all the topics teams may choose, treat this with imagination, flexibility, and label which teammate contributes what.

This section should include the following:

• A visual historical timeline that diagrams (at least one per teammate) predecessors to the emergent technology  

• An assessment on how these earlier technologies influenced the development of the current technology

• In-text APA-formatted citations with a reference page

• Option 1: the timeline should be a horizontal visual component at the beginning of the section, and the written assessment should take up a majority of ~two pages/ 500 words Times New Roman double-spaced). (Some topics may be so recent that the timeline does not go back as far as you may suppose, but be diligent, flexible, and creative here.)

• Option 2: combine the predecessors by placing them appropriately onto the chart or graphically illustrated timeline, with boxed brief texts superimposed for each entry explaining the importance of the invention, breakthrough, discovery, or innovation that improved on (or maybe not!) the previous design/model.