History of Technology
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Technology is what separates intelligent life from all else. Ever since he came up with the idea of using stone tools, man has and will always strive to develop new and improved ways of bettering human life conditions.
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Think technology and what would come to your mind is the vast array of services and products that you come across your daily life. Everything from your cell phone to the airplanes on the sky, the toaster in your kitchen or the alarm clock by your bedside to being able to talk to a friend in another continent as soon as you think of him -- all these are nothing but technological marvels.
Early on, the name for technology was 'natural philosophy'. Advancements in this field started from the late sixteenth century onwards; before that, it was considered wrong to tamper with everything natural. Philosophers of that time who brought forward radical ideas were Johannes Kepler, Galileo and Isaac Newton. Their theories and experiments led the way to technical discoveries like the vacuum pump, steam engine and even the pendulum clock. These, in turn, led to Great Britain’s industrial revolution, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The combination of iron and steam power was responsible for what is known as transportation technology, as steamboats and railways came into existence.
The twentieth century was a glorious period for technological advancements. Revolutionary products and outstanding innovations were introduced in all fields, from transportation to medicine to telecommunications. It is said that even though the scientific revolution did bring about the Industrial Revolution, it was the latter which made society what is it today, raised expectations for a better life, and therefore led to technological advancements.
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