HIS 2129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Clarence Chant, Technoscience, Oliver Lodge
30 Oct 2016
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Chapter 9: mass consumption and technology in daily life. New means of transportation that allowed for better commercial trading. Consumer increasingly dictated the behavior of farmers and workers. Domestic technologies affect our daily lives in more subtle fashions that constrain our everyday behavior. This leads to the debate of technological determinism, whether we are influenced by the technology around us or we influence technological designs. 1913 scientific american: greatest invention in the last 25 years was wireless telegraphy. Compared to other inventions such as x-rays, scientific laws and formal expertise played a supporting role in the science of the day. Existence of radio waves was predicted by maxwell"s equations for electro magnetism and german physicist heinrich hertz. British physicist oliver lodge and french physicist edouard branly made a more sensitive detector of radio waves than the simple wire loop used by hertz.
