FArady

hammer

Search here

Access to site

analysis

argument

authors

authors' recapitulated

body

concepts

dialectical

ecology

ecosystem

forests

garden

home

income

justice

knowledge

landscape

metric

nature

operation

population

quality

reflection

significance

technology

utility

verity

weal

zeitgeist

 

up .The Tools of Toil is a history of technology

Technology is the study of tools in the context of their production and uses in producing outcomes and means to other ends.

" The technological transformation of time and space in the industrial age found its crucial expression in art, science, literature, and philosophy. . . .to depict and understand these fundamental principles , now cut loose from old certainties and traditional meanings."

Carroll Pursell, White Heat, p. 78.

Describing the historical questions, content, and periods in the past.

Calendar

Visualizing the theme of the class by WEEKS.

1
technical as the hand -vs- the head, heart and hands

The judgment
of Thamus

scribe

Egyptian scribe.

2
Prehistory

fire, food, and
domestication

Street in southern Tamil-Nadu, India.


3
Asian historical context & hearth

Waterwheels in western China.

4
From manufacture to mechanization; the consequences
Lowell Canal

Woman and spinning wheel in Mumbai, India.


5
The many elements of mechanization
Lowell Canal

Arkwright's water frame engine.

Richard Arkwright is among a series of influential inventors.

6
Steam and power

steam power

Two different forms of steam engines.


Steam engines revolutionized the modern world.


7
Industrialization

Lowell Canal

Willow Run bomber industrial complex built by Ford Motor Company 1941-43.

 

8 - 9 - 10
C. P. Snow's argument The Two Culture's debated


11
Automation
auto


12
Three revolutions today



13
Reporting on the state of technological knowledge today

power

Authors:

Pursell | Pacey–World | Postman | Tenner |Pacey–meaning| Eberhart | Snow | Kaku | Boulding | Delillo | Kranzberg

History of Technology ENV-208.1 M-W-F

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm

Reeves, The Lodge

Home

Define technology.

A guide to writing

Are you in my class?

Analysis

Readings:

 

Course

learnClarify

learnOrganize

learnReflect

learnExamine