NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jacob Bigelow, Industrial Arts, Thomas Edison
25 Aug 2016
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Unit one: introduction to course: defining technology. Creating new technology requires knowledge, and is not just created because there is a need. Term technology can be found as early as the 17th century, and was used to describe study of industrial arts. Term technology only popularized after wwii but use of technology (or material) items can be traced to almost 2 million years ago. Prior to this, alternative terms to technology used were practical arts or mechanical arts, applied science and engineering . These people were called artisans or crafts people. 1831 jacob bigelow wrote book entitled elements of technology on the application of science to the useful arts . He equated technology with invention and creativity; science as process of discovery. Breaking down term: teks is indo-european root word meaning to fabricate or weave; in. Greek, tekton refers to carpenter or builder and tekhne to art, craft or skill.
