Technology / Engineering  (400) Telecommunications  (211) Telegraph  (32) Telephone  (77) Television  (48) Virtual Reality  (21) Writing / Palaeography / Calligraphy  (225) Beowulf 700 – 1000 Beowulf , a traditional heroic epic poem written in Old English alliterative verse, and representing with its 3,182 lines 10% of all surviving Old English poetry,