HIST391 Lecture 17: Lecture 17.docx
6 Apr 2014
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Why germany: technoscience big science" integration of science technology, government, universities, private companies, always used to kill people in great numbers, technoscience at work within a period of only 5 years most of modern technologies were created, the fundamental shift: people changed from using technology to cope with the environment to warfare and money, atomic energy the germans were the first to split the atom, first to invent atomic bomb (first big technoscience in us was manhattan project, modern turbojet engines and jet planes (the 262, modern computers, 1943 z3 first modern computer (memory of 60 words, 1944 z4 first commercial computer, modern radio controlled devices, modern voice recorders, 1935 magnetophon k1, television, world"s first guided missiles (autopilot adjusted the speed and altitude) v1 (powered by pulse jet engine, high speed flight (almost 4 times the speed of sound, modern design, modern rockets and ballistic missiles, space travel (a4 rocket) first man made object in space.
