What's What in the What's Older Game?

The things in the pictures are all different ages. In each group, the pictures are arranged by age, and ranked from 1 to 5. 1 being the oldest and 5 being the newest (or youngest).

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Person | Phones | Toys | Airplanes | Automobiles | Computers | Writing Tools | Cameras | Telescopes | Buildings

Category: Person
Age Rank: 1 (oldest)	Age Rank: 2	Age Rank: 3	Age Rank: 4	Age Rank: 5 (newest)

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Category: Phones
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Wall phone from around 1900. Caller turned crank a certain number of times for the operator or another party. Bell-Bréguet phone system from France, around 1880.	Age Rank: 2 "Candlestick" phone from around 1920. No dial, so caller asked a phone company operator to make a call. Black desk phone from the 1920s. Uses a rotary dial.	Age Rank: 3 Desk phone from the 1960s. Previous phones were always black. "Princess" Phone from the 1960s.	Age Rank: 4 One of the first "touch tone" phones, from 1966. A "touch tone" wall phone, from the 1960s or later.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) A modern-day cell phone. A modern-day cordless phone with charging base and answering machine.

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Category: Toys
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Papier-maché doll from 1830. China head doll from 1850.	Age Rank: 2 Wooden Popeye doll from the 1930s. Tin Felix the cat from 1910 looks cool in his glasses.	Age Rank: 3 Tin robot man from 1948. Donald Duck™ takes a bath, from 1950.	Age Rank: 4 Stretch Armstrong™ from 1978. 1970s Mr. Machine™ could even walk.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) A brand new Power Ranger™ from 2006. Barbie™ wants to start her own band this year.

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Category: Airplanes
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) When he designed the Ornithopter in 1480, da Vinci thought it would fly like a bird. It did not. A glider built by German engineer Otto Lilienthal in 1889.	Age Rank: 2 In 1930, the Wright Brothers were the first to build and successfully fly an airplane.	Age Rank: 3 People took rides in this biplane in 1919. This biplane was built in 1933.	Age Rank: 4 The DC-3 airplanes began carrying passengers in 1938. It was the first comfortable, reliable, and money-making passenger airplane. World War II Fighter airplane from the 1940s.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) The Concorde passenger airplane, built in 1974, could fly faster than the speed of sound. It is no longer flown. In 2003, this L1011 jumbo jet carried the Pegasus rocket up to 40,000 feet, where Pegasus blasted off, carrying the Galex telescope to space. The new Boeing 787 passenger plane is expected to begin service in 2008.

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Category: Automobiles
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Motorized wagon built around 1900. Borrowed design from horse-drawn buggy. 1903 "Michigan," made in Kalamazoo.	Age Rank: 2 Model A Ford, built around 1930. 1927 Chevrolet.	Age Rank: 3 1935 Chevrolet Coupe. 1940 Packard.	Age Rank: 4 1951 Ford Victoria. 1953 Chevrolet pick-up.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) 1969 Chevrolet Camaro. A 2005 Chevrolet.

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Category: Computers
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) An abacus, the first calculator. No one knows when it was invented, but it was least 700 years ago. Invented in the early 1600s, and widely used through the 1970s and later for doing calculations.	Age Rank: 2 The ENIAC computer, built in 1946, took up a room 30 feet wide by 50 feet long. The Atanasoff computer, built in 1942, but not completed because its inventors were drafted into the Army.	Age Rank: 3 Osborne 1 from 1981, the first true portable computer. Compaq portable computer, introduced in 1982.	Age Rank: 4 This is a computer that uses the Pentium 3 Processor, first introduced in 1999. This Apple Macintosh SE computer was introduced in 1987.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) This laptop (or notebook) computer was built in 2005. This 2005 microcomputer has a flat screen monitor.

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Category: Writing Tools
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Quill pens and ink have been used for over one thousand years! This typewriter is from 1874.	Age Rank: 2 Fountain pens can be refilled with ink. They have been around since 1915. This dusty, rusty typewriter is from the 1890s.	Age Rank: 3 One of the first electric typewriters, from the 1960s. Manual typewriter (not electic) from the 1960s.	Age Rank: 4 An early word processing machine (like a computer), from 1973. IBM Selectric™ typewriter from the 1970s. All the letters were on a rapidly moving metal ball.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) The latest in laptop computers. Good fro writing an a lot of other things. The latest in flat-screen desktop computers, good for writing and many other things.

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Category: Cameras
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) This is a very simple camera obscura, first mentioned in Chinese writings around 400BC (2,400 years ago). A dadguerreotype camera, made in 1939. Daguerreotyping was an early process for making photos.	Age Rank: 2 A camera made in about 1889.	Age Rank: 3 This camera was made in 1936.	Age Rank: 4 This camera with a built-in zoom lens was made in 1995. This camera was made in 1958. It could use different lenses on the same camera.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) The GALEX space telescope, launched in 2003, takes pictures of galaxies of all ages, and astronomers can look at the pictures and tell which galaxies are older! These new digital camears are so small they can fit on a keychain.

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Category: Telescopes
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) In 1609, Galileo used this telescope to make some major discoveries in the night sky. Reflecting telescope, invented by Isaac Newton in 1672.	Age Rank: 2 In 1785, William Herschel built this large telescope and used it to discover two more moons of Saturn. Percival Lowell thought he saw canals on Mars through this telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1894.	Age Rank: 3 In 1908, George Ellery Hale was responsible for getting this 60-inch telescope built and installed on Mt. Wilson, overlooking Pasadena, California. On Mt. Palomar in Calfornia, this 200-inch telescope was completed in 1948.	Age Rank: 4 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and still captures amazing images to send down to Earth. The second of the twin Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii was completed in 1996.	Age Rank: 5 (newest) The GALEX space telescope was launched in 2003 and is still observing the universe in ultraviolet light. The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 and is still observing the universe in infrared light.

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Category: Buildings
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Stone age hunters (over 10,000 years ago) may have used shelters made of animal skins, like this.	Age Rank: 2 These pyramids were built by the ancient Egyptians around 4,600 years ago.	Age Rank: 3 This ancient Greek Temple, the Parthenon, was built around 440 BC (about 2,440 years ago). This ancient Roman Coliseum was built around 80 AD (about 1,930 years ago).	Age Rank: 4 This cathedral in France was built around 1200 AD (800 years ago). This church in Italy was completed in 1490 (about 500 years ago). "La Rotonda" was built in Italy around 1580 (over 425 years ago).	Age Rank: 5 (newest) The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles was completed in 2003.

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Category: Art
Age Rank: 1 (oldest) Cave painting found in Lascaux, France. Made around 15,000 to 10,000 BC (12,000 to 17,000 years ago)! Cartoon caveman does a cave painting. He would have lived over 12,000 years ago.	Age Rank: 2 Ancient Egyptian art from around 1000 BC (or 3,000 years ago). Ancient Greek vase, from around 460 BC (over 2,460 years ago). Wall painting from ancient Roman Empire, around 70 AD (over 1,930 years ago).	Age Rank: 3 Sculpture "David" by Michelangelo, completed in 1504 (500 years ago). Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," painted in 1503 (500 years ago).	Age Rank: 4 Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Bedroom at Arles" from 1888 (well over 100 years ago). Head of a Dog by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1870 (about 140 years ago). Woman with a Parasol by Claude Monet, painted in 1875 (about 130 years ago).	Age Rank: 5 (newest) Abstract paintingby sharond Hudson, alive and painting today. Pablo Picasso's "Girl with Dark Hair," painted around 1930.

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