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    Unit I: General Concepts in Science, Technology and Society

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    This document provides an overview of science and technology throughout history from ancient to modern times. It discusses key inventions and developments in Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese, and European civilizations. Some highlights include the development of irrigation systems, sailing boats, wheels, plows, roads, hieroglyphics, water clocks, water mills, bound books, gunpowder, printing press, microscope, telescope, and pasteurization. The document also outlines learning objectives for students to understand how science and technology have impacted society and identify inventions that changed the world at different points in history.

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    UNIT I: GENERAL CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE,

    TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY


    Historical Antecedents in the
    Course of Sci. and Tech.

    1. Ancient Times
    2. Medieval/Middle Ages
    3. Modern Times
    4. Philippine Inventions
    AT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER, THE
    STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

    1. Explain how science and technology


    affected the society and environment
    and vice versa;

    2. Identify inventions and discoveries that


    changed the world over the course of
    history; and

    3. Discuss the scientific and technological


    developments in the Philippines.
    Science and technology play major roles in the
    everyday life.
    ANCIENT TIMES
    Transportation, Communication, Weapons and Armor
    ( Engineering and Architecture)
    ANCIENT TIMES: SUMERIAN
    CIVILIZATION
    Southern
    Iraq
    Cuneiform
    m

    City of
    URUK
    The Great Ziggurat
    of UR

    “Mountain of God”
    Irrigation and
    Dikes
    Sailboat
    Wheel
    The
    PLOW

    From food gatherers to food


    cultivators ROADS
    Ancient Times: Babylonian
    Civilization
    Hanging Gardens of
    Babylon
    ANCIENT TIMES: EGYPTIAN
    CIVILIZATION
    PAPYRUS
    INK
    hieroglyphics
    Cosmetics and
    Wigs
    Clepsydra/
    Water clock
    ANCIENT TIMES: GREEK
    CIVILIZATION
    Plato’s
    alarm
    clock
    Water Mill
    ANCIENT TIMES: ROMAN
    CIVILIZATION
    NEWSPAPER
    Bound Books or
    Codex
    Architecture
    ROMAN
    NUMERALS
    ANCIENT TIMES: CHINESE
    CIVILIZATION
    SILK
    TEA
    PRODUCTION
    GUNPOWDER
    MEDIEVAL TIMES: 5TH – 15TH CENTURY

    Printing Press
    Johann Gutenberg
    MICROSCOPE

    • Dutch maker of spectacles,


    Hans
    Janssen and his son, put glass
    lenses
    together in 1590 to make a
    primitive
    microscope.
    • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    (1632 – 1723) took this invention a
    step
    further in 1676 with a
    magnification
    of 270 times and discovered tiny
    single-celled creatures in pond
    water.
    The telescope
    • invented by Dutchman Hans Lippershey (1570 – 1619)
    • 1610, using his improved design, Galileo Galilei (1564 -
    1642) was able to prove that the Earth revolved around
    the Sun
    • confirmed the ideas of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus
    Copernicus (1473 – 1543)
    War
    WEAPONS
    MODERN TIMES 19TH CENTURY

    Pasteurization
    •Louis Pasteur
    • Thomas Edison’s (1847 – 1931) electric light bulbs
    were the best

    • Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)


    was the first in the race to patent a
    machine in 1876
    END
    #1 OUTPUT FOR
    PRELIM
    Make a pamphlete on major Philippine
    S & T inventions of the different
    periods in human history.
    a.Ancient Ages (60,000 BC- 650AD)
    b. Medieval Ages (650 – 1500)
    c. Modern Ages (1500- 1945)
    d. Contemporary Ages
    (1945-present)

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