HISTORY AND IMPACT OF

TECHNOLOGY

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?

In ancient times, technology was defined by Homer and Hesiod as the spoken word of manual craft or cunning skill (Luna, 1994).

By 330 BC, Aristotle coined the Greek term technologia and split scientific knowledge into three parts: theoretical science, practical science, and productive science (technology).

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?Technology is systematic, purposeful manipulation of the

material world. It is a process: power is applied through a tool or machine to a certain material by employing a certain technique. The term technology, meaning the study of technics.

The purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities.

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGYEra Invention

Pre-History Paleolithic Age * Fire, stone tools and weapons, Clothing

Stone Age *cultures developed musicoutrigger canoe technology

The later Stone (Neolithic period)

*agricultural technology*Polished stone tools were made from a variety of hard rocks such as flint, jade, jadeite and greenstone

Era Invention

Copper and Bronze Ages

Bronze Age sword or dagger blade.

Iron Age Axe headAncient technology

*Simple Machines*Invention of the wheel *sophisticated architecture in mud-brick and stone*They developed extensive water systems; canals for transport and irrigation in the alluvial south, and catchment systems stretching for tens of kilometers in the hilly north. Their palaces had sophisticated drainage systems.*Writing using cuneiform script

Inventor

Invention

Chinese

Greek

*seismological detectors, matches, paper, cast iron, the iron plough, the multi-tube seed drill, the suspension bridge, the parachute, natural gas as fuel, the magnetic compass, the raised-relief map, the propeller, the crossbow, the South Pointing Chariot, and gunpowder. *watermillwind power*earliest steam engine (the aeolipile) -

Inventor InventionGreek Engineers

•  automaton such as vending machines, suspended ink pots, automatic washstands and doors, primarily as toys, which however featured many new useful mechanisms such as the cam and gimbals.

• items were spiral staircases, the chain drive, sliding calipers and showers.

Inventor

Invention

Romans

• Road Building• different machines like the Gallic

reaper •  book (Codex),•  glass blowing 

Era InventionMedieval and modern technologies

Medieval Europe Renaissance technology

Age of Exploration

mechanical clocks , spectacles

printing press 

Sailing ShipNew maps and chart

Date Invention

1901

1902

1903

1907

1923

1925

Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.

The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.

The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane

The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu

The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.

The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.

Date Invention

1937

1941

1959

1987

1990

Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.The first jet engine is built.

Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.

The first 3-D video game invented.

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