The
Machine Age is an era that includes the early 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be about 1880 to 1945. Considered to be at a peak in the time between the
first and
second world wars, it forms a late part of the
Industrial Age. By the mid to late 1940s, the
atom bomb, the first
computers, and the
transistor came into being, beginning the
contemporary era of
high technology and thus ending the intellectual model of the machine age founded in the mechanical and heralding a new more complex model of high-technology.