Invention Summary

Overview: Technology and Invention 2000 B.c. to A.d. 699 Technology in the ancient and classical worlds reached impressive levels of achievement. The use of simple tools, skilled management of large n... Read more

Overview: Technology and Invention 1450-1699 Background The age of humanism that followed the Medieval era built upon a revolution in science that celebrated human curiosity and its use of rational in... Read more

Inventions for Daily Life Overview Inventors in the eighteenth century worked to make life easier. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) introduced bifocal eyeglasses and a stove that warmed a whole room. The... Read more

Overview: Technology and Invention 1900-1949 Overview The industrial revolution, which transformed technology in the nineteenth century, entered a second or mature phase by the beginning of the twenti... Read more

Inventions Timeline 1500–1799 ∼ The Roots of Modern Science Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician, develops new theories of a sun-centered universe (c. 1500) / Johannes Kepler (15... Read more

During Britain's Industrial Revolution, many inventions were created to produce more products and lessen the amount of labor to produce them, for example the spinning jenny and the spinning mule. In a... Read more

You probably ride in a car every day. Maybe you use a computer to do your homework, or surf the Internet. And you probably talk to your friends on the phone- a lot! But can you imagine life without ca... Read more

Invention is the division of rhetoric that rhetors use to find arguments. The three approaches to invention are kairos, stasis theory, and the topic method. I am going to apply them here to suppor... Read more