SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY IN THE 20TH CENTURY Flashcards
AIRPLANE
* Invented by
Wright brothers
Wilbur Wright and
Orville Wright
A powered, fixed-wing
aircraft that id propelled
forward by thrust from a
jet engine or propeller
Airplane
Used for recreation,
transportation of goods
and people, military and
research
Airplane
Flown by a pilot on board
or be remotely or
computer-contolled.
Airplane
“Father of Computers”
Charles Babbage
An electronic machine that
accepts information, stores it,
processes it according to the
instructions provided by a
user and then returns the
results
Computer
built the
very first electronic
computers in Germany
called Z3
Konrad Zuse
It was the first
working, programmable,
and fully automatic digital
computer
Z3
is regarded as the “inventor
of the computer”.
Zuse
- A non-invasive medical
test that physicians use
to diagnose medical
conditions
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING(MRI)
Uses a powerful
magnetic field, radio waves
or pulses and a computer to
produce detailed pictures of
virtually all internal body
structures.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING(MRI)
INTERNET
* Started in early 1900
when ___________ toyed
with the idea of a “world
wireless system.”
Nikola Tesla
A global computer network
providing a variety of
information and
communication facilities,
consisting of interconnected
networks using standardized
communication protocols.
INTERNET
OPTICAL FIBER
* In 1880, ____________ created a very early precursor to fiberoptic communications,
the world’s first wireless
telephone (Photophone).
Alexander Graham Bell
In 1952, UK based
physicist _______________ invented the first
actual fiber optical table
based on John Tyndall’s experiments three
decades earlier.
Narinder Singh Kapany
