The History of Technology

Early from 1600 to 2012 electricity was used for the simplest object of the most complex gadget. Today, people need to get the right power to light the lights at home. In the 1600s, candles were the main light source. In 1600, a British scientist called William Gilbert used the term "electricity" for the first time. He also writes articles on the electrification of many substances. With the success of William Gilbert, many scientists followed the footprints and led to today's big invention.

This article is about technology on human history. For the book series, please refer to the technical history (book series). For the field of learning the history of technology, see the history of science and technology. For instructions on current production technology, please refer to that technology. For the history of important economic technology, please refer to productivity improvement technology (economic history). For other uses, please refer to "Technology (disambiguation)". The history of technology, as well as other aspects of human history, is the history of inventions of tools and technologies. Technology refers to methods from simple language and stoneware to complex genetic engineering and information technology from the 1980s. The term technology is a Greek technique, which means art and craft, and the logo means words and languages.

The Technical History Research Institute founded in 1958 initially attracted historians interested in the background history of technology. In the mid-1980s after "steering technology", the social respect journal (technology and culture) will begin the annual cause of non-historians of great interest because of their technical interest in research . Also, in the United States, the major areas within STS-oriented organizations have important special interest groups such as American Anthropological Society, American Political Science Association, National Women's Studies Association and American Sociological Association.

Our argument in the history of technology history is that technology history is an important and unique chain in the human history network. We believe that human history can not be understood correctly without linking the history of human beings with human tools, ie the history of technology. Some of our colleagues and friends - I mentioned the familiar names like Mumufude, Fairfield Osbourne, Joseph Needham, RJ Forbes, Cyril Stanley Smith and Lynn Light for my work Let's take a good example of political, social, economic and cultural history that had a great impact. But I deviated from my theme. You can learn from the first technical innovation that may have a new influence on the question raised at the beginning, human beings, society, regime. Industrial Revolution, we live