In the World: Ancient, Middle, Modern Ages

• Science and Technology and Society is an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.
• The course explores the conditions under which production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur; and the effects of these processes upon the entire society.
• Science is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions and experimental and empirical activities that generate universal truths.
• Technology is the application of science and creation of systems, processes and objects designed to help humans in their daily activities.
• A group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations, is referred to as a society.
• The interrelationship of science, technology and society is complex and evolving.
• Science and technology alter the way people live, connect, communicate and transact, with profound effects on economic development.
• Technological and scientific revolutions underpin economic advances, improvements in health systems, education and infrastructure.
• Technologies transform business practices across the economy, as well as the lives of all who have access to their effects.
• Science and technology have the power to better the lives of poor people in developing countries.
• Science and technology are differentiators between countries that can tackle poverty effectively by growing and developing their economies, and those that are not.
• The Ancient Greeks were the early thinkers and as far as historians can tell, they were the first scientists.
• Scientific thought in Classical Antiquity becomes tangible from the 6th century BC in pre-Socratic philosophy (Thales, Pythagoras).
• The Islamic Golden Age is traditionally thought to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786–809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were tasked with gathering and translating all of the world's classical knowledge into the Arabic language, and subsequently development in various fields of sciences began.
• Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially astronomy, mathematics, and medicine.
• During ancient times, Imhotep is claimed to have identified and cured over 200 diseases, including TB, appendicitis, gout, gallstones, and arthritis.
• Egyptian Medicine then was based on trial and error.
• Papyrus is a thick paper-like substance used as a writing surface in ancient times, created from the pith of the swamp sedge Cyperus papyrus.
• During the Industrial Revolution in England in the late 18th century, James Watt's creation of the steam engine permitted the blasting of air into the blast furnace with a machine.
• The primary driver of this change was the harnessing of thermal energy to create mechanical energy, primarily from coal mines for steam engines.
• A loom is a device used to weave threads together to create cloth.
• When cotton spinning was automated, the factory system became popular.
• In the 1700s, a revolution began with coal, iron, and textiles.
• The Industrial Revolution took place in Britain, then spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world.
• Significant developments in agriculture, industry, mining, transportation, and technology had a significant impact on socioeconomic and cultural situations.
• For generations, the British had turned their iron ores into iron and steel by burning the raw material with tree-derived charcoal.
• Einstein was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
• Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1784, which he finished in 1785.
• There have been major advances in a number of fields, including nanotechnology and the discovery of sub-atomic particles.
• Newton's system strongly encourages the Enlightenment conception of nature as an orderly domain governed by strict mathematical-dynamical laws, as well as the Enlightenment conception of ourselves as capable of knowing those laws and delving into nature's secrets through the exercise of our unaided faculties.
• The Industrial Revolution occurred between the 18th and 19th centuries.
• James Hargreaves was an English inventor who is most known for developing the spinning jenny.
• The 20th century was an important century in the history of the sciences.
• The factory system was originally used in the late 1700s in the United Kingdom.
• The spinning jenny, created by James Hargreaves in 1764, was an important development of the Industrial Revolution.
• The utilization of equipment, first driven by water or steam and subsequently by electricity, is the most distinguishing feature of the industrial system.
• With the discovery of DNA and the advancement of genetics in biology, we are now able to enter the core functions of life and modify the gene pool of certain creatures.
• In just a few decades, information technology and digital information processing have completely changed our way of life.
• The most recent advancements in astrophysics are also incredibly astonishing since they provide as more evidence for the tremendous unity of physics, which is made evident at every new level of comprehending reality.
• The introduction of the "cloud" has also made it much easier for businesses to keep their data in one place at all times.