Overview: Technology and Invention 2000 B.c. to A.d. 699
Technology in the ancient and classical worlds reached impressive levels of achievement. The use of simple tools, skilled management of large n...
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Overview: Technology and Invention 700-1449
The medieval era often is considered a time of modest achievements, literally a middle period between the substantial intellectual achievements of Greece an...
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Overview: Technology and Invention 1450-1699
Background
The age of humanism that followed the Medieval era built upon a revolution in science that celebrated human curiosity and its use of rational in...
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Overview: Technology and Invention 1700-1799
Overview
The eighteenth century saw the transformation of technology from a small-scale, handcrafted activity to a mechanized industrial system. Building o...
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Inventions for Daily Life
Overview
Inventors in the eighteenth century worked to make life easier. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) introduced bifocal eyeglasses and a stove that warmed a whole room. The...
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Overview: Technology and Invention 1800-1899
What we think of as the modern world was born not in the twentieth century but in the technological innovations of the nineteenth century. Almost everythin...
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Overview: Technology and Invention
1900-1949
Overview
The industrial revolution, which transformed technology in the nineteenth century, entered a second or mature phase by the beginning of the twenti...
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Invention
Invention (from the Latin invenire, to find or to discover) in a broad sense refers to any novel idea or the process of its creation. In the technological sense it means the identification...
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Inventions
Timeline
1500–1799 ∼ The Roots of Modern Science
Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician, develops new theories of a sun-centered universe (c. 1500) / Johannes Kepler (15...
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During Britain's Industrial Revolution, many inventions were created to produce more products and lessen the amount of labor to produce them, for example the spinning jenny and the spinning mule. In a...
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In the past 100 years, many things have been changing. These 100 years have been the most advancing years in human history. With the rate of technology and science moving farther and faster than ever ...
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You probably ride in a car every day. Maybe you use a computer to do your homework, or surf the Internet. And you probably talk to your friends on the phone- a lot! But can you imagine life without ca...
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The sewing machine, the lightweight steel plow, and the telegraph ------ these essential inventions were based upon the need for struggling farmers, to simplify labor, and to make communication and bu...
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Invention is the division of rhetoric that rhetors use to find arguments. The three approaches to invention are kairos, stasis theory, and the topic method. I am going to apply them here to suppor...
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In the late 1800's, the nation sees progress through the inventions of the telephone, the refrigerated railroad car, and the technology that Edison provided us about electricity and the light bulb. So...
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Overview: Technology and Invention 2000 B.c. to A.d. 699
Invention
Inventions
