STS part2

the main features involved in the Industrial Revolution

the use of new basic materials, chiefly iron and steel,

the use of new energy sources, including both fuels and motive power, such as coal, the steam engine, electricity, petroleum, and the internal-­combustion engine,

the invention of new machines, such as the spinning jenny and the power loom that permitted increased production with a smaller expenditure of human energy,

a new organization of work known as the factory system,

• Technological Changes

• Cultural Changes

• Socioeconomic

important developments   in    transportation    and    communication,    including    the steam locomotive, steamship, automobile, airplane, telegraph, and radio,

• Technological Changes

• SocioEconomic Changes

• Cultural Changes

the increasing application of science to industry.

made possible a tremendously increased use of natural resources and the mass production of manufactured goods.

important century in the history of the sciences.

in particular, physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, neurosciences and earth and environmental sciences – and how they contributed to these changes.

• Rennaissance Period

• Industrial Revolution

• 20th Century

• Enlightenment Period