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Lesson 1 Flashcards

1
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Engineers & Scientist that created the “BIRTH” in technology

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Antiquity

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2
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Fire
Native Copper (9000 bc)
Wheel (3500 bc)
Baghdad Battery

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Mesopotamians

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3
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Smelting copper
Bronze Age
Pyramids
Hero of Alexandria
Plow

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Egyptians

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4
Q

Great wall
abacus
paper
moveable type
gun powder
compass
mechanical clock

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China

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5
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nazca lines
tiwaniku
machu pichu (9000 in the andes)
qui pu

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South america

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6
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Architechture
aristotle
ptholemy
archimedes of syracuse

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Greeks

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7
Q

Roman roads
aqua ducts
vitruvious (water wheel 180bc)

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Romans

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8
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Engineers & scientist that led to “REBIRTH” in technology

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Renaissance

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9
Q

Wrote backwards
Inventions
Siege defense
war scythe
Helicopter
airplane wing
“tell me if anything is ever done”

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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10
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Arts, Law, Medicine, Astronomy
Geocentric Universe
Heliocentric Universe

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Nicholas Copernicus

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11
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Physics
Thermometer
Telescope
Ecclesiatic Trial

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Galileo Galilei

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12
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Engineers & Scientist that laid the “SCIENTIFIC” of today

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Science

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13
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Theory of light
Pendulum Clock
Regulating spiral (1675)

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Christian Huygens

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14
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Isaac Newton

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Laws of the universe
Modern Mechanics
Celestial Mechanics

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15
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Latin Bible
Moveable Type

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Johannes Gutenburg

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16
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Engineers & Scientist that “Powered” the world through the Industrial Revoloution

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Industry

17
Q

Savery & newcommen
Atmospheric Engine
Steam distribution
Double acting
Micrometer

A

James Watt

18
Q

Dynamo
Generator
Electric motor
principle of induction

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Michael Faraday

19
Q

The steel & oil magnates

A

Henry bessener
andrew carniege
jp morgan

19
Q

Thomas Alva edison

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General electric

20
Q

Karl benz
Henry ford
George seldon
siegfried markus
gottlieb daimler

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Automobile inovators

20
Q

The wright brothers
george cayley
Whittle & O’hain
lilienthal & pilcher

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The airplane inventors

20
Q

Panama Canal
Brooklyn bridge (Roeblings, Caissons)

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The great builders

21
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Engineers & Scientist that Paved the way into the “FUTURE”

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Modern Era

21
Q

Rockets to space

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Robert Goddard
Werner von braun

21
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Bigbang theory
Atomic bomb
Quantum Theory
General theory
special theory

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Albert Einstein

22
Q

Oppenheimer
Project trinity
los alamos
Fat man & little boy

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The Manhattan Project

23
Q

Give examples of Computer pioneers

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Charles babbage
Jobs & wozniak
Gates & allen
Hollerith & watson
John von nueman
ekert & mockley
jack kilby
Enigma & Colossus

24
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The future

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There is nothing more to invent

25
Q

Invention is 1% inspiration
99% perspiration

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Thomas A . Edison

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