Tecnologia

Technology and society

  • Assembly line

    Assembly line
    It is a worker fabricates parts and joins them together to construct products like aircrafts, automobiles, electronics and household appliances
  • Television

    Television
    a large box with a viewing screen which receives electrical signals and changes them into moving pictures and sound
  • Radar

    Radar
    It is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects
  • First computer

    First computer
    it was the first electronic programmable computer built in the U.S. Although the ENIAC was similar to the Colossus, it was much faster, more flexible, and it was Turing-complete.
  • First artificial satellite

    First artificial satellite
    a satellite is an object that has been intentionally placed into orbit. These objects are called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon.
  • Electronic chip

    Electronic chip
    A small piece of semiconducting material (usually silicon) on which an integrated circuit is embedded.
  • Laser

    Laser
    A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    It was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
  • Microprocessor

    Microprocessor
    It is an integrated circuit that contains all the functions of a central processing unit of a computer.
  • Mobile phone

    Mobile phone
    It is a telephone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area, without a physical connection to a network.
  • Personal computer

    Personal computer
    It is a computer designed for use by one person at a time.
  • Windows operating system

    Windows operating system
    Windows is a series of operating systems developed by Microsoft. Each version of Windows includes a graphical user interface, with a desktop that allows users to view files and folders in windows. For the past two decades, Windows has been the most widely used operating system for personal computers PCs.
  • Flash memories

    Flash memories
    Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
  • Bloetooth

    Bloetooth
    It is a standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices.
  • Wifi networks

    Wifi networks
    It is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access