Technology Past and Present Vocabulary

A person who creates something that has never before been created

• inventor

• patent

• invention

Application of science to help people; the science of problem solving

• pasteurization

• technology

• communication

A display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen

• monitor

• robot

• technology

The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it

• patent

• communication

• productivity

A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically

• monitor

• inventor

• robot

just beginning, not well developed

• transmit

• primitive

• productivity

to send something across places; to pass along

• communication

• transmit

• patent

A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

• civilization

• invention

• engineer

• inventor

(n.) exclusive rights over an invention; copyright; (v.) to arrange or obtain such rights; (adj.) plain, open to view; copyrighted

• patent

• pasteurization

• productivity

A process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food

• communication

• pasteurization

• invention