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...evelopment of the [[steam engine]] propelled the [[Industrial Revolution]] in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and the world. The ...ide the political sphere, such as changes in mores, culture, philosophy or technology. Many have been global, while others have been limited to single countries. ...

{{short description|Period of human history from the mid 18th to late 20th centuries}} ...0, by [[William Bell Scott]] illustrates the rise of coal and iron working in the Industrial Revolution and the heavy engineering projects they made poss ...

...gy & Alienation. Palgrave Macmillan</ref> were for a long time unknown but in the past they were read and discussed by [[Marxist]] researchers. ...Marx's collection of material on technology as one of Marx's "specialisms" in correspondence outlining their mutual division of intellectual labour.<ref ...

...mputer]], the [[Internet]], [[medicine]], and [[artificial intelligence]], in particular [[generative pre-trained transformer]]s. ...an |date=2019 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-13-3714-7 |series=Advances in Japanese business and economics |location=Singapore |author-link=Hiroshi Sh ...

...-Drehmaschine.jpg|thumb|420px|Presentation of machinery industry on a fair in Dresden, 1982.]] ...intains [[machine]]s for consumers, the industry, and most other companies in the economy. ...

{{more citations needed|date=September 2022}}{{History of technology sidebar}} ...d]], [[Sweden]]: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics.]] ...

...n needed|date=December 2022}} In some cases, polytechnics or institutes of technology are engineering schools or technical. ...echnology, engineering, and mathematics]]. The level of [[academic rigor]] in these schools may vary from regional state universities to elite schools. ...

{{short description|Technology museum in Mannheim, Germany}} ...erman: ''Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit'') is a [[technology museum]] in [[Mannheim]], Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with displays covering the indust ...

...as in [[Railway semaphore signal|railway systems]], or [[traffic light]]s in cities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Semaphore - Traffic Signals - Road Signs and T ...ant. Flames were lit on one tower, then the next tower would light a flame in succession. ...

...l Gauguin]] and [[Vincent van Gogh]] exhibited in the Carrières de Lumière in [[Les Baux-de-Provence]], [[Bouches-du-Rhône]] through digital projection ( ...]], or [[World's fair]]s. Exhibitions can include many things such as art in both major museums and smaller galleries, interpretive exhibitions, natural ...

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...duction. It is related to, yet separate from, the [[history of science and technology|history of science]], the [[history of scholarship]] and the [[history of p ...wledge]] in the recorded [[past]].<ref name=":2" /> The discipline emerged in the 2000 as a response to the digital age and was formally recognised with ...

...licating machines''' were the predecessors of modern document-reproduction technology. They have now been replaced by digital duplicators, [[image scanner|scanne ...se of the [[Industrial Revolution]] which started near the end of the 19th century (also called the [[Second Industrial Revolution]]).<ref>{{cite web |first1= ...

...tics of Time: Zeitgeist in Early Nineteenth-Century Political Discourse"], in: Contributions to the History of Concepts 9, Nr. 1 (2014), 24-49.</ref> The ...itgeist'' "spirit of the epoch" and ''Nationalgeist'' "spirit of a nation" in L. Meister, ''Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschenrechte'' (1789). ...

...le Columbia launching.jpg|thumb|320px|Control systems play a critical role in [[space flight]].]] ...[[control theory]] to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments.<ref name="Case Western Reserve University">{{cite web ...

...ormer World|Basin and Range]]'' (1981), parts of which originally appeared in the ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' magazine.{{sfn|McPhee|1998|p=77}} The philosophical concept of geological time was developed in the 18th century by [[Scottish people|Scottish]] geologist [[James Hutton]];{{sfn|Palmer|Zen ...

{{Short description|1=Overview of and topical guide to technology}} ...utline (list)|outline]] is provided as an overview of and topical guide to technology: ...

...ar in a liquid, or an alcoholometer for measuring higher levels of alcohol in [[Distilled beverage|spirits]]. The hydrometer makes use of [[Archimedes' principle]]: a solid suspended in a fluid is buoyed by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by ...

...alism|anti-intellectual]] practices of deliberately presenting information in an [[wikt:abstruse|abstruse]] and imprecise manner that limits further inqu ...al skepticism]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] said that: "The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual und ...

...which turned on an axis via a [[crank (mechanism)|crank]], a [[cloth]] pad in contact with the spinning globe, a set of [[metal]] needles to conduct away ...entists developed machines to generate static electricity decades earlier. In 1663, [[Otto von Guericke]] generated static electricity with a device that ...