NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Electron Microscope, Technoscience, Thomas Edison
2 Nov 2011
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This theory claims that science and technology are interrelated, and that basic scientific research can find new technologies. This theory can be applied to the modern world, however it cannot be applied to most of history. This was because technology and science were believed to be completely different fields. In the past history of technology was usually subsumed under histories of science or economics. Technology as applied science refers to idea that technology is driven by scientific discoveries. While this might be true to some extent in the modern era, prior to the 20th century science and technology done by different sets of people with different norms and values within their established communities. Scientists and people practicing the technical arts were working in completely different domains, and they did not collaborate in their ideas until the 20th century. Industrial revolution inventions such as textile machines, steam engines, railways had little scientific knowledge behind them.
