Miscellaneous Tech
Areas of Technology
Invention or Innovation?
The Design Process
Inventors and Innovators
100
The process of growing plants in nutrient-rich water.
What is hydroponics?
100
The process whereby human beings use tools, machines, materials and knowledge to solve problems in order to meet our needs and wants.
What is Technology?
100
The incandescent lightbulb
What is an invention?
100
The first step in the design process
What is Identify the problem or challenge?
100
Steve Jobs, late CEO of Apple.
What is innovator?
200
The process of building iPhones is called this.
What is Manufacturing?
200
The process whereby human beings convert raw materials into finished products or useful goods. The intention is to produce more than one product at a time which can be moved from where it is made to be sold or distributed.
What is manufacturing?
200
The fax machine
What is an invention?
200
Generating as many possible ideas or solutions as possible.
What is brainstorming?
200
Alfred Nobel
What is inventor? dynamite
300
The process of building 50 apartment buildings
What is Construction?
300
The process whereby human beings transfer information through graphic or electronic means from one place to another. sender -->message-->receiver
What is communications?
300
Fluorescent light bulb
What is an innovation?
300
Choose the best solution and decide how to build or make it.
What is a a plan or design?
300
Thomas Edison
What is an inventor and an innovator? light bulb, phonograph film projector
400
The process of shared problem-solving
What is Brainstorming?
400
The process whereby human beings convert raw materials into finished products or useful goods. The intention is to produce only one product at a time which is built on site such as a building or a shopping center?
What is construction?
400
A cassette tape or an eight-track tape
What is an innovation?
400
Taking the finished product or solution, test it and re-test it to see if changes need to be made.
What is improvement.
400
Willis Carrier
Who is an inventor? What is modern air conditioning?
500
"-ology" means this in Greek
What is "the study of?"
500
The process whereby human beings transfer people and or goods from one place to another.
What is transportation technology?
500
An iPod
What is an innovation?
500
An operating version of a solution to a problem.
What is a prototype?
500
Eli Whitney
What is an inventor? cotton gin and interchangeable parts
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