Rocketry
Rocketry II
Contexts of Technology
Invention and Innovation
History of Technology
100
Movement away from an object.
What is thrust.
100
A cloth canopy that fills with air and allows a person or heavy object attached to it to descend slowly when dropped from an aircraft, or that is released from the rear of an aircraft on landing to act as a brake.
What is a parachute.
100
The computer is the driving technology in the _____ age.
What is the information age.
100
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It removed seeds from cotton fibers. Now cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply. Results: more cotton is grown and more slaves are needed for more acres of cotton fields
What is the cotton gin .
100
Developing a new/useful process, tool, machine, etc that didn't exist previously.
What is an invention.
200
Father of rocketry; first used liquid-fuel in a in a rocket in 1926.
Who is Robert Goddard.
200
Pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty. By sanding the fins we had much less induced ________.
What is drag.
200
The architectural period marked by information sharing, gathering, manipulation, and retrieval; occurred between 1950 A.D. and present. The steam engine was a major development in the __ age.
What is the industrial age.
200
A railroad that connected the eastern United States to the western United States. The railroad firmly bonded the West Coast the Union, created a trade route to the far-east, and helped the western expansion.
What is transcontinental railroad.
200
Introducing new ideas/methods to an established process, tool, machine, etc to produce marketable products.
What is innovation.
300
It's abbreviation is NASA
What is The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
300
A coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape. Lift and drag depend directly on the _____ of the flow going past the rocket.
What is Mass.
300
The architectural period that includes combining copper and tin to produce bronze; occurred between 2,300 B.C. and 700 B.C.
What is Bronze age.
300
A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
What is steam engine.
300
A property right granted by the government; allows the inventor to prohibit others from making, using or selling his or her idea.
What is a patent.
400
The science that deals with the motion of air and other gaseous fluids, and of the forces acting on bodies when the bodies move through such fluids, or when such fluids move against or around the bodies.
What is aerodynamics.
400
Hot gases are forced downwards through the rocket's jets which pushes the body of the rocket upwards. The bigger the downward blast of gas, the bigger the force (thrust) pushing the rocket upwards. A jet engine works in the same way to push an aircraft forwards.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion.
400
__________ is an example of construction technology and ________ is an example of energy and power technology.
What is a crane and a solar panel.
400
An important time period for invention lasting from around 1750-1850. A time when many machines and devices were invented.
What is the Industrial Revolution.
400
The architectural period marked by the revival of classical influence and the sharing of ideas; occurred between 1,400 B.C. and 1750 A.D.
What is Renaissance.
500
The highest point of rocket's flight path. (More literally, the point farthest on the flight path from Earth.)
What is apogee.
500
A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty. Rocketry is not without _____________________.
What is aesthetics.
500
Name the three major contexts in which technology can be viewed.
What is historical, societal, and functional.
500
People invent for these three reasons.
What is social inventions, financial inventions, and leisure inventions.
500
The Old Stone Age, occurred between 500,000B.C. and 10,000 B.C. and is marked by improvements to diet and security allowing the population to grow. The Middle Stone Age, occurred between 10,000 B.C. and 4,000 B.C. and is marked by the domestication of animals and agriculture. The New Stone Age, occurred between 4,000 B.C. and 2,300 B.C. and is marked by specialization, division of labor, and the use of math and documentation of concepts.
What is Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic.
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