MODULE 2 Flashcards
It is the totality of the use and application of his knowledge, skills, tools, and materials.
Technology
How science and technology affect society?
It makes life easier, improve human condition, influences society through its knowledge and wolrd view.
Give 5 roles of science and technology.
- Engine of growth.
- Diffentiators between countries.
- Interventions for cognitive enhancement etc.
- Key drivers to development
- Has power to better the lives of the poor people in developing countries.
It is a precursor to the unfolding or existence of something.
Antecedent
3 Historical Antecedent.
Ancient, Middle and Modern
It paved the way for the presence of advanced and sophisticated scientific and technological innovations today.
Antecedent
It paved the way for advances in science and technology.
Ancient Period
Advances during this period allowed civilizations to flourish by finding better ways of communication, transportation, self-organizations and ways of living.
Ancient Period
It is a historical period when people realized the importance of the efficiency of transportation, communication and production.
Modern Ages
5 Inventions under Middle Ages.
- Paper money
- Mechanical clock
- Spinning wheel
- Heavy plough
- Gun powder
It took place under modern ages but with greater risk on human health and environment
Industrialization
5 inventions in ancient period.
- Ancient wheel
- Shadoof
- Aeolipile
- Paper
- Antikythera mechanism
The major advances in scientific and technological development took place in this period
Middle ages
It is created around 850 A.D when Chinese alchemists accidentally invented it.
Gun powder
It is invented by ancient Egyptians to irrigate land
Shadoof
It is discovered in 1902 and retrieved from waters of Antikythera, Greece.
Antikythera Mechanism
5 Inventions in Modern Ages
- Jacquard loom
- Engine powdered airplane
- Television
- Compound microscope
- Telescope
It is invented by a Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird
Television
It is invented by Galileo Galilei and used to discover important astronomical discoveries such as craters, moon etc.
Telescope
Ancient wheel was credited to_
Sumerians
It is knows as the hero’s engine and it is a stream-powered turbine which spins as the water container at its center is heated
Aeolipile
Around 3000 B.C, Ancient Egyptians begin writing on___
papyrus
Papyrus is made up from a pith of plant called___
Cyperus Papyrus
It turned European agriculture and economy on its head
Heavy Plough
