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Major Tech. Achievements
• The Computer
• The Assembly line
• Air Transportation
Computer Names
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Vitruvius
Benedictine and Cistercian Abbeys
Gutenberg
Aldus Manutius
Bouchon
Vaucanson
Jacquard
Charles Babbage
Herman Hollerith
Computer Connections
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Hellenistic gearing mechanisms
Fall of Rome
Medieval Industrial Rev. 900-1400AD
1098 began Cistercian abbeys
Horizontal loom
Champagne Fairs
Spinning Wheel
Comp. Connections cont.
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The “Little Ice Age”
Linen underwear
Inexpensive paper
Printing Press
18th Century programmable loom.
Jacquard Loom 1800 AD
1890 Census - H. Hollerith
Assembly Line Names
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Caliph, Al Mansur
Bukhtu Yishu
Gerard of Cremona
Hans Lippershey
Galileo
Huygen
John Hadley
Huntsman
Jesse Ramsden
Maudslay
Eli Whitney and the Gilbreths
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Assembly line Connections
Astrology
Star Tables
Water Alarm Clock
Verge and Folliot clock
1450 AD portable clocks
The Looker
Pendulum clock
Sextant
Huntsman Steel
Dividing Engine
Maudslay’s lathe
Air Transport names
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Guericke, Papin, Savery and Newcomen
James Watt
Wilkinson
Joseph Priestly
Volta
Drake
Nicolaus Otto
Maybach
Daimler
Wilhelm Kress
Air Transport Connections
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The Little Ice Age
The Chimney
1564 shortage of Copper
1615 Acute timber crises
1707 Coke Iron tech.
1705 Newcomen Engine
1769 Watts Steam Engine
1775 Wilkinson precision cylinders
Volta’s pistol
Fossil fuels
Maybach’s carburetor
Readings
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Dazzled by the Light
Holiday’s Deadly Souvenir
The Development of the Computer
Binary numbers
Precision and Accuracy
Are nuclear flasks safe to fly?
Harnessing steam
Taking the long way home
Making nuclear power usable again
Chernobyl 10 years later
When Science and Beliefs
Collide
• A large growing share of population rejects
aspects of science.
• Science only explains the physical world
through experimental fact. It can not tell
you the meaning of life or how to handle
bereavement or guilt.
Seductive Propaganda
• Scientism – a belief that science is or can
be the complete and only explanation.
Science on trial
• Scientists strive to discover and accurately
describe the truth about natural
phenomena.
• Courts do not hold truth or accuracy as
their ultimate end.
• Courts simply seek justice and must
decide cases when they are presented.
Know These
• W. Kress, Newcommen, Watt, Hollerith, Savery,
Galileo, Jacquard, J. Hadley, Maudslay,
Gilbreths, N. Otto
• Binary to base 10 & visa-versa
• Weaving advances
• Major connections
• Petroleum, Coal, Coke
• Looker
• Sextant
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4-stroke engine
Interchangeable parts
Longitude problem
Champagne Fairs
Causes of Bubonic Plague
Bronze and Brass alloys
Precision and accuracy
What you should know
• How does a water wheel work. What was it
used for during medieval times? P89
• What do the cam and gears do? P86-89
• Technically, how did the horizontal loom differ
from the old vertical loom? 93-94
• Explain the connection between colder
weather and paper production.
• How did moveable type and the printing press
work? 101-103
• Weaving advances during 11th, 13th & 18th
Century
What you should know
• How did the printing press affect
communication and spread of knowledge.
104-106
• Explain the geneses of the Jacquard Loom
and its connection to the 1890 US census.
111-113
• Conversion of decimal to binary and visaversa.
• What were “fulling mills.” P89
• How was the “black death” spread, and
where is the pasteurella pestis bacteria now?
What you should know
• Differentiate between astronomy and astrology.
• Why 12 months in the year and 12 hours each
day and night.
• Differentiate between accuracy and precision.
• Operation of water alarm clock, mechanical
clock, portable clock and pendulum clock.
What you should know
• Why did astronomers prefer the pendulum clock.
• The Latin and English translation for AM and
PM.
• The connection between the “looker,” the
sextant, and the need for more precision
fabrication.
• Why was le Blanc unsuccessful installing his
standardized gun parts in France? Pg. 150
What you should know
• How a lathe works pg. 144
• The connection between Huntsman steel
(crucible steel), the lathe, tangent screw,
dividing engine and the sextant.
• How ships blocks work (LN).
• Why the assembly line first flourished in
the U.S., not in Europe.
What you should know
• How the American System of Manufacturing
affected U.S. citizens and military (149-151).
• How far are you from home port if at high noon
the time at home port is 2:15PM? Are you East
or West of home port?
• Describe the construction of Dolland’s
achromatic lens pg. 141
• Corrective lenses 1300, the “Looker” 1608, why
did it take 300 years for this? pg. 134-5
What you should know
• The four strokes of the 4-stroke engine.
• The Venturi principle.
• The connection between volta’s pistol and
the carburetor.
• Difference between coal and coke.
• The operation of Necommen’s & Watt’s
engines.
What you should know
• What is an alloy
• What is bronze and brass. How are they
different.
• What is one radioactive fallout from the
Chernobyl accident.
• Difference between aerobic and anerobic
processes.
• How is crucible steel made. What is its
connection to glass making?
What you should know
• Differentiate between coal, petroleum and
natural gas.
Longitude and Latitude
• Longitude lines are the
vertical lines
• Latitude lines are the
horizontal lines.
• The longitude of South tip
of Africa is approx. 20 E
longitude
• S. tip of S. America is
approx. 75 W longitude