ENGB52H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Simon Newcomb, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Dying Earth
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Feb 28: science as technology the time machine by h. g. Hebert george wells the man who invented tomorrow. One of the fathers of science fiction . Major works: the time machine, the ward of the worlds, the invisible man, the island of doctor moreau. Patents are flying in: the telephone, first moving picture, machine gun, cars with internal combustion engines, gramophone, the zipper, the roller coaster, first radio receiver, first manned flight. Science is flying too: maxwel"s theory of electromagnetism, michelson morley disprove the aether, discovery of xrays, radioactivity, electron, planck"s law of black body radiation. Society becoming split into social and economic classes like never before. Technology comes from information from the basic natural sciences. Science is getting applied and developing momentum. Story about conflict between man and et and man being observed by intelligent life. He convinced a bunch of people that they were under attack.
