Science,

Technology, and
Society:

World History
13.8 billion years ago
4.5 billion years ago
3.8 - 4.3 billion years ago – life started

Archaebacteria
Charles Darwin had vaguely imagined the primordial soup as
a "warm little pond" in 1871
Alexander Oparin in 1924 theorized that in the primitive
Earth's surface, carbon, hydrogen, water vapour, and
ammonia reacted to form the first organic compounds.
 "primordial soup theory"
• John Burdon Sanderson Haldane independently arrived at
similar conclusion in 1929 and gave the name "soup" to the
theory.
Stanley Miller and Harold Urey used a highly reduced mixture of gases—methane,
ammonia and hydrogen—to form basic organic monomers, such as amino acids.
 Human evolution
This process involved the gradual development of traits such
as human bipedalism and language.
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Europe
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Europe
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Europe Minoan palaces

iron works
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• The Americas

stone arrowheads
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• The Americas

flint tools raft/boats from weeds

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• The Americas

giant human head sculpture canals for irrigation

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)

wines-Iran plow- China

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)

clay pipes- Pakistan Hindu calendar

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)

astronomy acupuncture
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Africa and Middle East

African bone harpoons sun-dried bricks

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Africa and Middle East

antler tools clay tokens

Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)
• Africa and Middle East

Phoenician alphabet

Egyptian medicine
wheel
Medieval Period ( ca 500-1500)

spectacles
Medieval Period ( ca 500-1500)

mechanical clock Gothic buildings

Medieval Period ( ca 500-1500)

crop rotation
Guttenberg printing press
Renaissance Period (14th to 17th Century)

Metal press Copernican theory

Renaissance Period (14th to 17th Century)

wood printing paper-making in China

Renaissance Period (14th to 17th Century)

Galileo’s motion experiments on pendulum and falling bodies

Industrial Revolution (18th Century)

iron foundry steamboat

Industrial Revolution (18th Century)

Watt steam engine textile (spinning mule)

Industrial Revolution (18th Century)
Industrial Revolution (18th Century)

steam-powered locomotive
19 Century
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Electricity petroleum

steel
19 Century
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• Alessandro Volta - • first battery

• Michael Faraday – • electric generators and motors
• Charles Goodyear – • vulcanized rubber
• Louis Pasteur – • pasteurization
• James Clerk Maxwell- • light as electromagnetic
• Karl Benz – • gasoline-engined car
• Rudolf Diesel - • diesel engine
• Wilhelm Röntgen - • X rays
• Samuel Morse – • electric telegraph
20th Century
20th Century
• Guglielmo Marconi – • radio
• Wilbur and Orville Wright – • engine-powered airplane
• Willis Carrier - • air conditioner
• Henry Ford – • affordable car
• Hans Geiger - • Geiger counter
• Enrico Fermi – • nuclear chain reactor
• Stephanie Kwolek - • super-strong plastic called Kevlar
• Soviet Union (Russia and her allies) • launch the Sputnik space satellite
• Electronics companies • agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide
standard for wireless Internet
Ancient Period (ca 3000 BC – 500 AD)

• modern humans evolved from its hominid

ancestor
• accumulation of knowledge and passing it
from generation to generation
Medieval Period ( ca 500-1500)
• Dark Ages
• one of the creative periods in the history of
humans
• start of the first industrial revolution
• advancements in the philosophy of science
• refinement of the scientific method
Renaissance Period (14th to 17th Century)

• period of rebirth
• rapid spread of knowledge and information
• preservation of culture
• intellectual and cultural movement
Industrial Revolution (18th Century)

• use of machines
• scientific and technological advancement
• setback: skilled workers replaced by
machines
19 Century
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• rise of modern industry

• stream of new products
• second industrial revolution (electricity, steel,
petroleum)
• age of machine tools (machines for other
machines)
• revolutionized travelling
20th Century

• incomparable technological advances and

scientific discoveries
• use of scientific method and funding for
research
• communication and transportation is
enhanced
• science and technology has become more
TASK:
• Filipino Invention
• Inventor
• Description
• Time of invention/discovery
• Source/Reference
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