Infographic: The iPhone – how did we ever get here?

Most of us very rarely give a second's thought into how the technology in our everyday lives ever came about.

When thought is applied, though, it’s astounding to think how far the human race has come from the primitive cave life to the modern digital age. Take, for example, the iPhone. 

This popular smartphone, gadget, device, is a concentration of centuries of scientific and engineering work. The research that mathematicians, chemists, engineers, and inventors all made along the way, more or less contributed to the invention of this amazing device.

QuartSoft.com did their very best to compound all of this technology history into an infographic, which is displayed below:

For even more detail and insight into the infographic (including a zoom-able version of the infograph above), check out the website where author Dmytro Nesterov offers additional information into some of the more pertinent events that led to this device.