Historical Antecedents Flashcards
Do you know that the earliest form of science and technology was found during the pre-historic time, 2.3 million years ago? Yes, it was human artifacts such as roughly shaped stones used for chopping and scraping. The said artifacts were found in _____________?
Eastern Africa
One of the significant inventions during ancient period was the _______________ (3500 BC) which is said to evolve from tool known as potter’s wheel use in pottery where clayware is made.
Sumerian wheel
3500 BC
_______________, (2400 BC) was the first writing system developed by Sumerians. They carved pictures and triangular symbols on a clay using wedge to keep records of their activities.
Cuneiform
2400 BC
Another essential invention in ancient period was when Ancient Egyptians began writing on __________ (made from a pith of cyperus papyrus plant), lightweight, durable and portable material similar to thick paper. Egyptians invented this paper in 3000 BC because of difficulty in writing on stones.
Papyrus
3000 BC
The increase in population paved the way on the invention of a tool used to irrigate lands to produce more food items. To be able to do the irrigation of crops, ancient Egyptians invented ____________, a manual device used for lifting water. This invention initiated the concept of lifting things by the use of counterweights.
Shadoof
In Germany, to ease the pain of having huge volume of texts being handwritten, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press to convert handwritten text into printed books during the Middle (Dark) Ages. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing initiated the Printing Revolution.
Gutenberg Printing Press
Middle (Dark) Ages
The invention of ____________ by the European helped them not only in the cultivation of their fertile land but it also turned their agriculture and economy to prosper rapidly.
Heavy plough
_____________ is a device that converts fiber into thread or yarn and then woven into cloth. This device is said to be a breakthrough of this period because it sped up the production of cloth 10 to 100 times. It was invented during ____________?
Spinning wheel
13th Century AD
_____________________ was one of the prominent people in the Middle Ages. He was coined as the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal. A great painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, engineer and had interest in science in which he stressed the importance of experiment.
Leonardo da Vinci
The _______________ was invented by Zacharias Janssen in ____________, by putting together several lenses on a tube. This invention sparked the idea that when an object is placed near the end of the tube, it can be magnified 3 times its original size when closed and up to 10 times when extended to the maximum.
Compound microscope
(circa 1595)
_____________ was the first one who used telescope out of spyglasses, to observe the sky that led to the discovery of craters and mountains on the moon.
Galileo
__________________ is known to be the most influential scientist of all time. He is a mathematician who founded calculus; a physicist who defined the law of gravity; light; color; and planetary motion; an astronomer; and a theologian.
Isaac Newton
The most famous physicist in the 20th century was _________________. His known works were: Theory of Relativity which won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921; Quantum Theory, nuclear power, the atom bomb; and the famous equation E=mc2 which is employed up until now in calculus.
Albert Einstein
_______________ was the one who invented the first incubator – a device used to maintain the environmental conditions of babies born premature. An improved version of this device helped not only premature babies but also in treating jaundice.
Dr. Fe del Mundo
This Filipino invention had saved countless babies not only in the Philippines but to the world as well.
Bamboo Incubator
