Major Tech. Achievements

1. Major Tech. Achievements • The Computer • The Assembly line • Air Transportation

2. Computer Names • Vitruvius • Benedictine and Cistercian Abbeys • Gutenberg • Aldus Manutius • Bouchon • Vaucanson • Jacquard • Charles Babbage • Herman Hollerith

3. Computer Connections • Hellenistic gearing mechanisms • Fall of Rome • Medieval Industrial Rev. 900-1400AD • 1098 began Cistercian abbeys • Horizontal loom • Champagne Fairs • Spinning Wheel

4. Comp. Connections cont. • The “Little Ice Age” • Linen underwear • Inexpensive paper • Printing Press • 18th Century programmable loom. • Jacquard Loom 1800 AD • 1890 Census - H. Hollerith

5. Assembly Line Names • Caliph, Al Mansur • Bukhtu Yishu • Gerard of Cremona • Hans Lippershey • Galileo • Huygen • John Hadley • Huntsman • Jesse Ramsden • Maudslay • Eli Whitney and the Gilbreths

6. Assembly line Connections • Astrology • Star Tables • Water Alarm Clock • Verge and Folliot clock • 1450 AD portable clocks • The Looker • Pendulum clock • Sextant • Huntsman Steel • Dividing Engine • Maudslay’s lathe

7. Air Transport names • Guericke, Papin, Savery and Newcomen • James Watt • Wilkinson • Joseph Priestly • Volta • Drake • Nicolaus Otto • Maybach • Daimler • Wilhelm Kress

8. Air Transport Connections • The Little Ice Age • The Chimney • 1564 shortage of Copper • 1615 Acute timber crises • 1707 Coke Iron tech. • 1705 Newcomen Engine • 1769 Watts Steam Engine • 1775 Wilkinson precision cylinders • Volta’s pistol • Fossil fuels • Maybach’s carburetor

9. Readings • Dazzled by the Light • Holiday’s Deadly Souvenir • The Development of the Computer • Binary numbers • Precision and Accuracy • Are nuclear flasks safe to fly? • Harnessing steam • Taking the long way home • Making nuclear power usable again • Chernobyl 10 years later

10. When Science and Beliefs Collide • A large growing share of population rejects aspects of science. • Science only explains the physical world through experimental fact. It can not tell you the meaning of life or how to handle bereavement or guilt.

11. Seductive Propaganda • Scientism – a belief that science is or can be the complete and only explanation.

12. Science on trial • Scientists strive to discover and accurately describe the truth about natural phenomena. • Courts do not hold truth or accuracy as their ultimate end. • Courts simply seek justice and must decide cases when they are presented.

13. Know These • W. Kress, Newcommen, Watt, Hollerith, Savery, Galileo, Jacquard, J. Hadley, Maudslay, Gilbreths, N. Otto • Binary to base 10 & visa-versa • Weaving advances • Major connections • Petroleum, Coal, Coke • Looker • Sextant

14. Know these • 4-stroke engine • Interchangeable parts • Longitude problem • Champagne Fairs • Causes of Bubonic Plague • Bronze and Brass alloys • Precision and accuracy

15. What you should know • How does a water wheel work. What was it used for during medieval times? P89 • What do the cam and gears do? P86-89 • Technically, how did the horizontal loom differ from the old vertical loom? 93-94 • Explain the connection between colder weather and paper production. • How did moveable type and the printing press work? 101-103 • Weaving advances during 11th, 13th & 18th Century

16. What you should know • How did the printing press affect communication and spread of knowledge. 104-106 • Explain the geneses of the Jacquard Loom and its connection to the 1890 US census. 111-113 • Conversion of decimal to binary and visa-versa. • What were “fulling mills.” P89 • How was the “black death” spread, and where is the pasteurella pestis bacteria now?

17. What you should know • Differentiate between astronomy and astrology. • Why 12 months in the year and 12 hours each day and night. • Differentiate between accuracy and precision. • Operation of water alarm clock, mechanical clock, portable clock and pendulum clock.

18. What you should know • Why did astronomers prefer the pendulum clock. • The Latin and English translation for AM and PM. • The connection between the “looker,” the sextant, and the need for more precision fabrication. • Why was le Blanc unsuccessful installing his standardized gun parts in France? Pg. 150

19. What you should know • How a lathe works pg. 144 • The connection between Huntsman steel (crucible steel), the lathe, tangent screw, dividing engine and the sextant. • How ships blocks work (LN). • Why the assembly line first flourished in the U.S., not in Europe.

20. What you should know • How the American System of Manufacturing affected U.S. citizens and military (149-151). • How far are you from home port if at high noon the time at home port is 2:15PM? Are you East or West of home port? • Describe the construction of Dolland’s achromatic lens pg. 141 • Corrective lenses 1300, the “Looker” 1608, why did it take 300 years for this? pg. 134-5

21. What you should know • The four strokes of the 4-stroke engine. • The Venturi principle. • The connection between volta’s pistol and the carburetor. • Difference between coal and coke. • The operation of Necommen’s & Watt’s engines.

22. What you should know • What is an alloy • What is bronze and brass. How are they different. • What is one radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident. • Difference between aerobic and anerobic processes. • How is crucible steel made. What is its connection to glass making?

23. What you should know • Differentiate between coal, petroleum and natural gas.

24. Longitude and Latitude • Longitude lines are the vertical lines • Latitude lines are the horizontal lines. • The longitude of South tip of Africa is approx. 20 E longitude • S. tip of S. America is approx. 75 W longitude