NATS 1840 Lecture 10: lecture 10 nats
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Nats 1840 lecture 10 science changes the game: industrial expansion magnified. 18th century, craft production, manufacturing, science, engineers. Talks about science and technology and industry (important because we haven"t mentioned science which made a big impact on the production of stuff and taking it to the next level) 188 th century shift from craft to manufacture factoring. Over the 17/18 century science becomes professionalized ( science wasn"t just a hobby or something you did on a side informal activity ) now became a full time profession. Gonna focus on chemical and electrical industry and how science impacted it. Late 19th / early 20th century, science, new products, production methods, efficiencies (science gave us new science based products, things that were never there before like plastic which is not a raw resources we made it) Its not ike we need to but its because of capitalism that makes you buy stuff (forces of supply and demand)