Vocabulary 1
A new product
What is an INVENTION?
Steps that lead to a result
What is a PROCESS?
A picture or drawing that helps people understand how a system operates
What is a DIAGRAM?
The most recent or up to date technology
As long as there has been humans
How long has there been technology?
An improvement to an existing product
What is an INNOVATION?
Prevents inventors from having their ideas stolen
A compromise where you give something to get something
What is a TRADEOFF?
Technology that is no longer in use or no longer useful
What is OBSOLETE technology?
Created the moving assembly line which made cars affordable for average families
Who was Henry Ford?
What a product or process must fulfill to be accepted
Part of a larger system
Uses existing technology and scientific discoveries to create new technology
What is ENGINEERING?
New developments to technology to gain an advantage over competition
What is EMERGING technology?
Has patents for more inventions than anyone else
Who was Thomas Edison?
A new product or a new version of an existing product...used for testing
Restriction on a product or process
What is a CONSTRAINT?
The study of nature and the natural world
What is SCIENCE?
Companies that create technology so that they can make money
What are FOR PROFIT companies?
The 1800's
What was the Age of Invention?
Creating the most effective or best product, system, or process
A group of parts that work together in an organized way to complete a task
What is a SYSTEM?
Created by humans to extend human abilities, solve a problem, and make our lives easier
What is TECHNOLOGY?
The money to fund the technology created by this entity comes from taxes
What is the GOVERNMENT?
Always evolving/changing, changes happen quickly, has a life cycle, has good & bad impacts
What are the 4 things that are always true about technology?