Why didn't Alexandria have an Industrial Revolution?
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Romans took over,& they didn't agree with or continue developing the
technologies ( demonstrates the extremeties lack of government support
can have on people & technology )
,Eratosthenes
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Director of alexandrian library, measured circumference of the earth,
distance to sun/moon & tilt of earth's axis, as well as created chronology
Three most important inventions
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Plow, printing press & mechanical clock
Richard Arkwright
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First steam powered factory ( cromford mill )
Lyceum
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School created by Aristotle, used to create perfect citizens/leaders
,Hermann Oberth
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"By rocket into Planetary Space" - bizarre concept that wasn't accepted
until much later and then Nazis provided funding into his research
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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Could outrun rockets and missiles, turbojet and ramjet put together,
hypersonic ... no longer limited by technology, but rather by humans = New
relationship with technology
Clement Ader
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Built first manned aircraft to take off from level ground under it's own
power , witnessed by scientists
Eugenics
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, Human race to be improved by killing weak / unwanted
Thomas Hughes
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"human built world"
Argument: technology developed a better world - "human built world,"
went too far to say that it emerged from a "divine spark" of human creativity
& ingenuity from god
Thomas Misa
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"Leonardo to the Internet"
Against popular vision of technology as a non-social construct (technology
is purely a product of culture) Support of government - most decisive
external factor for developing new technology, argued against idea that
technology will rule our lives
The plow
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Greatest invention ever made, completely changed our relationship with
technology
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Romans took over,& they didn't agree with or continue developing the
technologies ( demonstrates the extremeties lack of government support
can have on people & technology )
,Eratosthenes
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Director of alexandrian library, measured circumference of the earth,
distance to sun/moon & tilt of earth's axis, as well as created chronology
Three most important inventions
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Plow, printing press & mechanical clock
Richard Arkwright
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First steam powered factory ( cromford mill )
Lyceum
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School created by Aristotle, used to create perfect citizens/leaders
,Hermann Oberth
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"By rocket into Planetary Space" - bizarre concept that wasn't accepted
until much later and then Nazis provided funding into his research
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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Could outrun rockets and missiles, turbojet and ramjet put together,
hypersonic ... no longer limited by technology, but rather by humans = New
relationship with technology
Clement Ader
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Built first manned aircraft to take off from level ground under it's own
power , witnessed by scientists
Eugenics
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, Human race to be improved by killing weak / unwanted
Thomas Hughes
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"human built world"
Argument: technology developed a better world - "human built world,"
went too far to say that it emerged from a "divine spark" of human creativity
& ingenuity from god
Thomas Misa
Give this one a try later!
"Leonardo to the Internet"
Against popular vision of technology as a non-social construct (technology
is purely a product of culture) Support of government - most decisive
external factor for developing new technology, argued against idea that
technology will rule our lives
The plow
Give this one a try later!
Greatest invention ever made, completely changed our relationship with
technology
