What is technology?

What is technology?


Technology is the use of science to make practical things. Technology is also used for solving problems, creating objets for help the humans in work and for improving the life quality. Technology has improved since the prohistory with lots of inventions.
Difference between science and technology

Technology                                                       Science

Technology is used for solving problems.                    Science the curiosity of learning new things.

Its objective is to create, design...                                 Its objective is to explain things

Its result are new useful products.                                Its result are scientific laws, theorems...

Prehistory

Evolution of technology

The technology has been improving over the years since the paleolitic:

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 Prehistory:

The first technology were made in the paleolitic with the hunting weapons then with the axs, at the end of the neolitic there were the first writings and in the Metal Age the arrowheads.In the neolitic also it was the discovered of fire. They invent the plow for fishing.

Atapuerca:

Atapuerca deposit its found in the Atapuerca mountain range, there lived people over 1 million years ago. In its deposits there are lots of fosiles which have provided a lot of information about the prehistoric era. In actuality there are 5 deposits. In Atapuerca there have been found lots of knifes, weapons or even looms, technology of that era.

Old Age

Old age:

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At that time there were four civilizations: The egypcians, the greeks, the romans and the Mesopotamic.

• The egypcians invented the mummification and the pyramids for putting them in, the viteous and the sailboat
• The greeks invented the water mill,the clock with alarm and the first medicines
• The romans invented a lot of things like the acueducts, the threatre, the sewer, the road, the cement, the toilet...
• The civilations of Mesopotamian invented a very important object: the wheel

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Middle Ages

Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages they invent many useful objects:

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• Hourglass
• Blast Furnace
• Eyeglasses
• The Mechanical Clock
• Spinning Wheel
• Quarantine
• catapult

They lived in castle made of briks

Modern Age

Modern Age

This is the time that extends from 1500 to 1750 approximately. In this period of time many important people lived like Leonardo Da Vinci, Copernicus... which favoured the development of
lots of mechanical machines.

The most importants inventions of this time were:

• The printing machine, which was very important because before that the books were copied by hand.

• The glass was perfectioned and it replaced the wood shutters.

• The manuals jobs started to be replaced by mechanicals.

• Leonardo da vinci invented the parachute, the aquatic costume, machine flying, the bike...

Contemporary Times

Contemporary Times

The contemporary Age started in 1750 with the French revolution and last until today. They invented a lot of machines:

• The Telegraph for sending messages
• The battery for giving energy
• The writing machine for writing
• The light bulb for giving light
• The TV for seeing cartoons, series, films...

Also they invent many objects that change our life:

• In 1885, the first motor vehicle was created.
• The birth of the first computer was in the year 1936, then they evolved.
• One of the most important invention was the movil phone. The first mobile phone was developed the 17 of October of 1973. Nowadays is used to communicate from far.

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The most important inventors of technology

Here are the 8 most importants inventors for the technology in our history

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1. Albert Einstein invented the theory of relativity (E = mc^{2 )}
2. Leonardo da Vinci invented a lot of useful things
3. James Watt invented the Steam Machine
4. Leonardo Torres Quevedo invented first ferry suitable for human use and airships
5. Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford company.
6. Juan de la cierva
7. Manuel Jalón Corominas Spanish inventor of the mop and the disposable syringe.
8. Tesla Nikola is one of the greatest and most important inventors in the history of electricity.