Modern Technology - an Overview of the Historic Timeline

Modern Technology - an Overview of the Historic Timeline

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  • Date Submitted: 01/25/2009 12:27 PM
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Technology is a term with origins in the Greek "technologia" Technology is often a consequence of science and engineering. It was widely considered that technology was simply "applied science."
The usage of technology starts from the human history about cave. Hunting tools made by stone are the first technology. After that we got fire also from stone. Other technological advances was clothing and sheltering from wood and leafs. The improvement from those technologies was metal tools for hunting animal.
To modernize our daily life science is working hard from the beginning. Meanwhile, humans were learning to harness other forms of energy. The earliest known use of wind power is the sailboat. The invention of the wheel revolutionized activities as disparate as transportation, war, and the production of pottery. Industrial revolution of England was the important eve of technology. From them that technology spread to the whole world. And life became easier then before.
Steam engine was the first stage technology. By this engine we got some speedy transport system. It saved our time in industry also. Limited price, limited labor and limited production were the status of first stage technology.
From the invention of electricity we entered into the second stage of technology. The huge usage of electricity made a new lighted world. Western countries were spreading such kind of technology to the whole world. By this time people could understand that to development of their countries technology is must be needed. Without it improvement is impossible. Electric technology gives us fastest life. Without electricity modern life is unimaginable.
The third stage of technology was the era of electron, proton. Technology gives us new knowledge of the element of earth, and by those element scientist tried to make something special, and the result is submarine.
21st century is the modern age of life. And we use technology anytime, anywhere, every steps of life.

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