Technology and society students

  • Vacuum tube

    Vacuum tube
    A vacuum tube, an electron tube,valve or tube is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
  • assembly ford

    assembly ford
    The Ford Model T assembly line was a manufacturing process in which machines, equipment, and workers were positioned in a logical order so that work passed from one operation to the next, in a direct line, until the final product, the Ford Model T automobile, was assembled
  • Television

    Television
    Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television, sometimes shortened to tele or telly, is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
  • First computer

    First computer
    A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern computers have the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs.
  • Fibre optics

    The use of thin flexible fibres of glass or other transparent solids to transmit light signals, chiefly for telecommunications or for internal inspection of the body.
  • FIRST NUCLEAR POWER STATION

    FIRST NUCLEAR POWER STATION
    On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, started operations in Obninsk of the Soviet Union. The world's first full scale power station, Calder Hall in England, opened on October 17, 1956.
  • Electronic chip

    computer chip, also called chip, integrated circuit or small wafer of semiconductor material embedded with integrated circuitry. Chips comprise the processing and memory units of the modern digital computer (see microprocessor; RAM)
  • LED diode

    Light emitting diodes, commonly called LEDs, are real unsung heroes in the electronics world. They do many different jobs in all kinds of devices. They form numbers on digital clocks
  • Email

    Email
    Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of networked email; in 1971, he developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts across the ARPANET, using the @ sign to link the user name with a destination server. By the mid-1970s, this was the form recognized as email.
  • Mobile phone

    Mobile phone
    The first handheld cellular mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing 2 kilograms. The first commercial automated cellular network (1G) analog was launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in 1979.
  • Personal computer

    The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s , were sold often in electronic kit form and in limited numbers
  • windows operating system

    windows operating system
    The original Windows 1 was released in November 1985 and was Microsoft's first true attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit.
  • Bluethoot standard

    Bluethoot standard
    Bluetooth was invented back in 1994, but the first Bluetooth phone didn't hit shelves until 2001. In 1988 the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) was formed, which to this day publishes and promotes the standard and its subsequent revisions.
  • DVD

    DVD
    The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format invented and developed in 1995 and released in late 1996. ... DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions.
  • New horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto

    New horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto
    New Horizons reached Pluto on July 14, 2015, becoming the first spacecraft to barnstorm the dwarf planet. Less than four years later, on Jan. 1, 2019, it passed the peanut-shaped, 36-km long Kuiper Belt object known as Arrokoth, a rocky, icy body in the river of similar comet-like objects that circles the solar system.