1. Foundations of Physics Technologies Over Time

2. Evolution of Technology What technologies do you use that your parents didn’t have when they were kids? What technologies did your parents have that their parents didn’t have when they were kids?

3. Evolution of Technology Timeline Share your technology event card(s) with the rest of the class Speculate on the order of the technology event cards beginning with 10,000 years ago to now.

4. Evolution of Technology Timeline 10,000 Agriculture 8,000 Cloth 6,000 Beast of Burden 5,200 Latrines 5,000 Written Language 5,000 Glass 4,800 Soap 2,200 Steel 955 Printing 510 Helicopter Design 115 Automobile 111 Rayon 104 X-Rays 73 Television (1927) 49 Nuclear Power Plant

5. Types of Events That Influence Technology Antecedent Technologies - Technologies that are related to those that came before them. Technologies that serve the same human need. Example: The telegraph was developed before the radio. Both serve the same human need: communication over distance.

6. Types of Events That Influence Technology Scientific Discoveries - Finding out something previously unknown or unrecognized by using the scientific process (research and experimentation). Example: Faraday discovered electrical current.

7. Types of Events That Influence Technology Inventions - A new device or process created through one or more of the following approaches: study, experimentation, research, accident, synthesis, tinkering. Example: Marconi invents the radio in 1895.

8. Types of Events That Influence Technology Social Events - Something that has a direct effect on society. Technology directly affects society and the way people live. Example: People can listen to sports on the radio.

9. Types of Events That Influence Technology Spin-Off Technologies - These technologies use the same basic technology, but build upon it and change it in order to meet different human needs or to meet them in a different way. Example: Cellular phone technology uses radio waves.

10. Types of Events That Influence Technology Technology Advancements - Changes or improvements in a technology, affecting the way it works or the way it functions. Example – FM radio broadcast begins