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• Industrial revolution


  Period that covers the complex technological innovation that led to the substitution of machines and inanimate power for human skill and human and animal forces
• Some technological advancements of the Industrial Revolution

  • Steamships
  • Bunsen burners
  • Telephones
  • Radios
  • Cotton gin
  • Fly-shuttle
• During the 18th-19th century, the connection between science and technology was very minimal, but this gradually shifted to the developmental stage during the 19th century, when science, technology, and industry united under a common ground and cause
• Significant scientific advances in the 18th-19th century

  • Cell or Battery (Alessandro Volta)
  • Discovery of X-rays (Wilhelm Roentgen)
  • Atomic Theory (John Dalton)
  • Discovery of Cell (Robert Hooke)
  • Observation and Discovery of Microorganism (Anton Van Leeuwenhoek)
  • Discovered cell nucleus (Robert Brown)
• During the 20th century, science and technology had structurally and methodologically changed, and a number of scientific theories were introduced and influenced technological works in this century
• Significant advances in scientific knowledge during the 20th century

  • Discovery of Proton (Ernest Rutherford)
  • Discovery of Neutron (James Chadwick)
  • First walk on the moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin)
  • Continental Drift Theory (Alfred Wegener)
• Information age


  Period that described the change from traditional industry to an economy based on information computerization
• Information age is also known as the "digital age" and the "new media age"
• Information age is coupled with the birth of personal computers and considered the era of easy access to information
• Pre-Gutenberg World


  Books were written and produced by hand, and hand-produced books and other reading materials were restricted only to those elite groups of people
• Gutenberg Revolution


  Movable type printing was created by Johannes Gutenberg, a German publisher, allowing information to be passed on to every individual, but access was expensive
• Post-Gutenberg World


  Emergence of the internet and the world wide web, allowing for the possible uploading and downloading of all forms of media instruments, and passing and publishing information were faster and easier
• Computers


  Discovered by Charles Babbage, known as the "Father of Computers", designed for computation and calculation and simple decision-making capabilities
• Internet


  Created in California, United States, in the late 1960s by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, initially a government-controlled project until 1984
• World Wide Web


  Created by Tim Berners-Lee, for commercial purposes, with home pages made by companies to promote and sell their products
• Electronic Mail or E-mail


  Created by V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, an avenue by which messages are exchanged between people from different locations at a faster rate
• Google


  A research project created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, known as the most used search engine on the world wide web
• Facebook


  A social networking website where people could contact one another and share each other's thoughts, photos, and experiences, created by Mark Zuckerberg, initially limited to Harvard students but later expanded to other universities
• Messenger


  Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008 but changed its messaging service in 2010, can be used to send messages to other people through written messages, voice calls, or video calls
• Twitter


  One of the most visited websites, created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, where messages are called "tweets"
• YouTube


  The largest online destination for videos, created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
• Instagram


  A fun photography application created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010