Science of Technology - Homework Assignment #1 Name __________________________
Directions:
Match the
short answer to the article … using numbers (1-93)
to indicate the correct answer.
1 Gutenberg prints the Bible in 1455
4 The steam engine kicks off the industrial revolution in 1769
7 Gunpowder is invented in the 9th century
10 The compass is used at sea 1117
11 Thomas Alva Edison starts inventing at Menlo Park 1876
14 TV invades our lives 1928
17 Henry Ford and the Model T 1908
20 Alexander Graham Bell gives telemarketers something to do 1876
22 Penicillin starts a medical revolution 1928
24 The Iron Horse 1830
25 Marconi invents the radio 1901
27 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly at Kitty Hawk 1903
30 Transistors revolutionize electronics 1947
32 Moving pictures 1895
37 Photography is born 1826
41 The telegraph makes the world a smaller place 1844
44 Microscopes see a smaller world 1674
46 Water purification starts in 1829
47 The "Oil Revolution" begins 1859
48 Food becomes preserved 1812
52 First pendulum clock revolutionizes timekeeping 1656
53 Refrigeration keeps it cool 1834
58 Vulcanization of rubber 1839
59 First regularly printed newspaper 1609
60 Flushing Toilets 1596
61 Discovery of X-rays 1895
62 Tempering of Steel 1854
63 Invention of dynamite in 1867
67 Singer made sewing machine 1851
77 First safe elevator 1854
90 Invention of plastics 1907
93 Anesthesia eases the pain 1846
____ A factory designed to make inventions and over 2000 patents … wow!
____ At first, only 3 homes enjoyed this marvel.
____ Christiaan Huygens constructed the first one.
____ First demonstrated in a New York fair in dramatic style.
____ First used in Europe at the siege of Metz in 1324—it led to decline of nobility's power.
____ First witnessed by 33 people in a café.
____ Fleming's discovery revolutionized the treatment of infections once considered incurable.
____ He got none of the glory and a creditor took over his business in the end.
____ Impurities like carbon were eliminated by using oxygen.
____ It helped elect Lincoln and offered tangible proof of the horrors of war.
____ It sure beats packing snow between the walls of your summer home.
____ It was first used in telephone equipment and hearing aids but now seen everywhere.
____ It was once thought that eating onions would render this useless.
____ James Watt made improvements on an idea from Newcomen.
____ Later came heroes like Lindbergh, Earhart, and Yeager.
____ Mr. Watson, Come here! I want you (maybe we shouldn’t ask why).
____ Nobel was sometimes called the “merchant of death”.
____ Now you know what the sign WC means in Europe.
____ The first device actually came from -Englishmen William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
____ The Morse code for the letter “S” was sent across the Atlantic Ocean.
____ The Relation was first seen in Strasburg Germany.
____ They didn't even want it … it was a derivative, kerosene, they were after.
____ This is probably the most significant public health advance of the millennium.
____ This replaced ivory!
____ Within months of its accidental discovery physicians were using the new technology