Tech 9 - The Periods/Ages
Technological Development
Techno Vocabulary
Simple Machines
Bridges
100
The Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Age?
100
The impact on people
What is Social impact?
100
developing new processes, tools, machines, etc.. that did not exist
What is invention?
100
The two gears of the gear train.
What are the driver and the follower?
100
The push or pull that transfers energy to an object
What is Force?
200
The New Stone Age
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
The impact on the economy
What is economic impact?
200
Introducing newideas/methods to an established process, tool, machine, etc..
What is innovation?
200
This is what a hammer is when used to pull a nail out of a piece of wood
What is Lever?
200
Force created by pulling something tight or a strain
What is Tension?
300
Combining Copper and Tin
What is the Bronze Age?
300
Impact on policy and laws
What is political impact?
300
A property right granted by the government that allows the inventor to prohibit others from making, using, or selling their idea.
What is a Patent?
300
A knife or a fork
What is Wedge?
300
The act or state of being squished down or made smaller or pressed together.
What is Compression?
400
Telescope, Microscope and the Thermometer
What is the Renaissance/Enlightenment Age?
400
Impact on human achievement
What is Cultural impact?
400
The application of knowledge, tools, and skills to solve problems and extend human capabilities.
What is Technology?
400
A flat surface that is higher on one end
What is an Incline Plane?
400
Two weights on a bridge, one moves or changes the other does not move.
What is Live Load and Dead Load?
500
First use of complex machinery, factories and urbanization
What is the Industrial Age?
500
The five steps in the Engineering Design Process
What is Define the Problem, Brainstorming, Make a Model, Test and Evaluate, and Communicate the Results
500
It is not information until it is organized in some way and made meaningful.
What is Data?
500
A jar lid, a stool, or a clamp
What is Screw?
500
The strongest truss but the most expensive truss
What is a Long Truss?
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