Vocabulary

What do the following words mean ? Give examples:


Arrange these items or inventions in Chronological order from the oldest (first invented) to the most recent: [Use the back of the page]


“reduce people to their smallest meaningful parts,”

“division of labor,”

“interchangeable parts,”

“The American System of Manufactures,”

Aechulean hand ax,

analog clocks,

automata,

bar code reader,

Cartesian grid,

Computer viruses,

digital clocks,

lasers,

mechanization,

Pacey’s three dimensions of tool use,

Renaissance,

segmentation,

sequencing,

telegraph,

telephone,

time discipline,

visual thinking,

zoetrope,


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Topic Overview

Three facets of technology and tools