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• Science


  A system of acquiring knowledge through scientific method
• Technology


  Methods, systems and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes
• Society


  A large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done
• Ancient Age: Three Age System

  • Stone Age - 20142.5 MYA - 3000 BC
  • Bronze Age - 3000 BC - 1200 BC
  • Iron Age - 1500 BC - 450 AD
• MYA - MILLION YEARS AGO
• BC - BEFORE CHRIST
• AD - ANNO DOMINI
• TCSHAMAR

  • T - TRANSPORTATION & NAVIGATION
  • C - COMMUNICATION
  • S - SAFETY & PROTECTION
  • H - HEALTH
  • A - ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING
  • M - MASS PRODUCTION
  • A - AESTHETIC
  • R - RECORD KEEPING
• Ancient Civilizations

  • S - SUMERIANS
  • B - BABYLONIANS
  • E - EGYPTIANS
• Cuneiform


  First writing system, word pictures and triangular symbols carved into clay using wedge instruments
• Uruk City


  • True city in the world, built using mud or clay on the river mixed with sun baked bricks, prevented wild animals and neighboring raiders from entering
• The Great Ziggurat of Ur


  • "The mountain of God" built in the same manner as the City of Uruk
• Irrigations and Dikes


  • Created to bring water to farmlands and control flooding of rivers as population increased
• Sumerians Inventions


  • Sailboat
  • Wheels
  • Roads
• Hanging Garden


  • One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, made up of layers of plants, trees, and vines, considered one of the greatest engineering and architectural achievements
• Alarm Clock


  • Made use of water (or sometimes small stones or sand) that dropped into drums which sounded the alarm clock to signal the start of lectures
• Water Mill


  • Commonly used in agricultural processes like milling of grains, required access to rivers or flowing water
• Nicolaus Copernicus' Universe Model


  • Describes the sun as the center of the universe, and that the earth and other planets revolve around it in circles
• Johannes Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion


  • All planets revolve around the sun in elliptical, not circular, orbits; and closer planets to the sun move faster than the others
• Galileo Galilei's Work of Motion


  • Discovery of the relations among distance, velocity, acceleration and the law of inertia using a new scientific approach
• Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion


  • 1st Law of Inertia, 2nd Law of Acceleration, 3rd Law of Action and Reaction
• Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation


  • A particle in the universe attracts every other universal particle using a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely to the square of the distance between their centers
• Johannes Gutenberg

  • German blacksmith publisher who introduced "movable type printing" in Europe, established the Gutenberg era
• Computer


  • Discovered by Charles Babbage, designed for computations/mathematical calculations and simple decision-making capabilities, first computer mouse invented by Doug Engelbart in 1964
• The Internet


  • Created by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, first problem was slow speed, discovery of Fiber Optic allowed faster data transmission
• World Wide Web


  • Discovered by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990s for commercial purposes
• Electronic Mail or E-mail


  • Discovery controversially claimed by V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai
• Facebook


  • Launched in Feb 04 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and Harvard students
• Twitter


  • Created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, SMS on the internet
• YouTube


  • Largest online video destination, created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in 2005
• Google


  • Developed as a research project in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, now the most used search engine
• Instagram


  • Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010, a fun photography application