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great wonder not only because it is considered to be the first true city in the world

the City of Uruk

. a Filipino biologist who led the world's first national-scale assessment of damge to coral reefs. He also pioneered giant clam breeding and other protective areas for coastal communities of the Philippines.

Edgardo Gomez

. a Filipino biologist, a leading authority of plants in the Philippines. He is the author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids including Medicinal Plants in the Philippines.

Eduardo Quisumbing

located in the Northeastern part of the African continent, a desert country thriving on an agricultural economy.

Egypt

where electric current is used to energize equipment.

Electric power

the heart of many modern technologies, is the set of physical phenomena associated with presence and motion of electric charge.

Electricity

which deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies.

Electronics

Filipino plant geneticist and agronomist who contributed in Agriculture.

Emil Q Javier

According to him nature was a mixture of four elements: earth, fire, air and water.

Empedocles

design and fabrication of tools, instruments, devices and machines.

Equipment technology

Filipina pediatrician, the founder of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.

Fe Del Mundo

Agricultural Age- comprising the pre-industrial technologies which are labor-intensive, small-scale, decentralized and based on empirical rather than scientific knowledge.

First Wave Technology

one of the architectural innovations associated with Gothic churches. This allowed buildings to have much higher ceilings and larger windows.

Flying Buttress

father of psychoanalysis

Freud

made the first steps for the advancement of the science of anatomy

Galen

assembled the first telescope which allowed him to see mountains on the moon and fiery spots on the sun.

Galileo Galilei

-" The father of Kappaphycus farming", a Filipino biologist who focus on marine phycology particularly seaweed biodiversity

Gavino C. Trono

is an interdisciplinary field of science focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping and editing of genomes- is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes.

Genomics

Filipino ophthalmologist known to some as the Father of Modern Philippine ophthalmology. He was the founder of the Philippine Eye Bank.

Germiniano T. de Ocampo

is an archipelago in the Southeastern part of Europe. - Known as the birthplace of western philosophy.

Greece

printing press

Johann Gutenberg

His calculations also showed that the planets moved in oval shaped orbits, and not perfect circles, as Ptolemy and Copernicus believed.

Johannes Kepler

is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell"form factor having typically a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell"and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.

Laptop or notebook computer

considered to be first ever public library in the world.

Library of Malatesta Novello in Cesena

these are devices, medicines, procedures and systems designed to preserve, repair, maintain, reproduce and improve living systems

Life technology

is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

Light Amplification by stimulated emission of radiation LASER

He used math to prove the existence of gravity-a force that kept planets in their orbits around the sun, and also caused objects to fall towards the earth.

Newton

Ø published "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".

Nicolas Copernicus

is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuc;ear power plant.

Nuclear power

is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions.

Nuclear weapon

The study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language

PHILOSOPHY

an alchemist and physician of the Renaissance. Medieval alchemists worked with two main elements: Sulphur and mercury

Paracelsus

is a peripheral device which makes a persistent human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper.

Printer

wrote the Almagest, wherein he presented his ideas and summarized those of the earlier Greek astronomers about the universe -postulated the geocentric theory of the universe.

Ptolemy

a gently sloping underground channel that carries water from an aquifer or water well to houses and fields. It is used for drinking water and irrigation of crops.

Qanat

deals with the distribution of various forms of energy such as solar panels, wind turbines and hydrothermal.

.Energy technology

is a powered fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.

Airplane

Penicillin- discovered by

Alexander Fleming

Telephone- invented by

Alexander Graham Bell

argued that matter was composed of countless tiny particles, each made of dominant substances such as water mixed with other random substances.

Anaxagoras

was one of the first pioneer cartographers to create a map of the world.

Anaximander

described the anatomy of the brain's function. He wrote the book "On the Fabric of the Human Body".

Andreas Vesalius

a Filipino biologist who promote biodiversity in the aquatic ecosystems of the Philippines.

Angel Alcala

is a rocky peninsula in Southwestern Asia.

Arabia

performed experiments which led him to discover the laws of lever and the pulley. - invented the science of hydrostatics- measurement and use of water-power. - made planetarium powered by water to demonstrate the movements of the sun and planets around the stationary earth. - discovered the concept of gravity

Archimedes

proved the importance of critical observation and systematic means to identify and classify organisms.

Aristotle

ancient region bordering the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Southern Iraq)

Babylonia

is the broad area of science involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products for specific use.

Biotechnology

is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices and building personal area networks.

Bluetooth

One orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled

Calculative thinking

a faster way to compute more complicated equations

Calculator

is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location or both

Camera

authored by Avicenna, an Arab physician. It contained a good summary of the period's medical knowledge and accurate descriptions of meningitis, tetanus and other diseases.

Canon of Medicine

a device that has at least the same functions of a standard wired telephone but is smaller and more mobile

Cellphone or mobile phone

an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Charles Babbage

- It is considered to be the oldest civilization in Asia. - It is also known as the middle kingdom, located on the far east of Asia.

Chinese Civilization

founded the world's first veterinary school in Lyon, France

Claude Bourgelat

also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV)

the oldest surviving law in the world. It is the earliest existing legal text

Code of Ur-NAmmu

makes use of computer-processes combinations of many X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional images of specific areas of scanned object, allowing the user to see the object without cutting.

Computed tomography (CT) scan

is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. It is also used as control systems for a wide variety of industrial and consumer devices

Computer

is a payment card issued to users to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services.

Credit card

a set of word pictures depicted in symbols made of triangular marks.

Cuneiform

which involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices and processes

Development

reality principle tries to satisfy ID impulses while minimizing punishment and guilt

EGO

appeared around the 9th century A.D, followed by vigorous development of explosive weapons from 1040 A.D about three centuries before it appeared in Europe. From fire-lance using a rocket combination and bamboo tube as close combat weapon, all barrier guns and cannon were constructed at the beginning of the 12th century A.D.

Gunpowder and Canon

"Father of Greek Medicine" First to regard medicine as a science apart from religion. He taught that diseases have natural causes and that somehow the human body is capable of healing or repairing itself.

Hippocrates

pleasure principle unconscious impulses that want to be gratified without regard to potential punishment

ID

The first 365-day calendar was possibly devised by

IMHOTEP

is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence). It is widely used in household and commercial lighting, for portable lighting such as table lamps, car headlamps and flashlights and for decorative and advertising lighting.

Incandescent light bulb

based on machines that collect, store, process, retrieve, transmit and utilize data or information.

Information technology

which involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes.

Innovation

is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the internet protocol suite ( TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It carries a vast range of information resources and services such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW). Electronic mail, telephony and file sharing.

Internet

is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface.

Liquid-crystal display (LCD projector)

a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist, the process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria that allow them to spoil faster. pasteurization

Louis Pasteur

German philosopher whose work is associated with phenomologyand existentialism.He begins "The Question Concerning Technology".

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body in both health and disease.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner

Planning, organization, coordination and control of social activities

Management technology

extraction, fabrication, processing, combination and synthesis of materials

Material technology

tells time using gears driven by weights that pull the gears at the right pace.

Mechanical clock

• The period from 450A.D to 1450 A.D • is generally known as the period of history between Ancient Times and Modern Times.

Medieval Times

One lets nature reveal itself to him/ her without forcing it.

Meditative thinking

ordered the construction of the famous "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" and the Isthar Gate.

Nebuchadnezzar

. a Filipino inventor and horticulturist, best known for inventing a way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate.

Ramon C. Barba

The period of rebirth Beginning of the cultural movement

Renaissance

- is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science and others. It deals with the design, construction, operation and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback and information processing.

Robotics

- was perceived to be the strongest political and social entity in the west. Considered to be the cradle of politics and governance

Roman Empire

the moral principle of our personality which tells us right from wrong our conscience

SUPEREGO

Petroleum Refinery- is widely used in powering automobiles, factories, and power plants. Kerosene was referred to as the "illuminating oil" because it was used at first to provide lighting homes. It was invented by

Samuel M. Kier.

is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. They are used for many purposes such as military and civilian Earth observation, telecommunication, navigation, weather forecast and space telescopes.

Satellites

System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.

Science

is used to refer to the great intellectual achievements of science from sixteenth to seventeenth century marking a radical change in the assumptions attitudes and methods in scientific inquiry.

Scientific Revolution

comprising the industrial technologies which were developed since the time of industrial revolution until the end of World War II. These are usually capital-intensive technologies and are essentially based on the classical principles of classical physics, chemistry and biology.

Second Wave technology

using the number 60 as base, system of counting and a form of place notation.

Sexagesimal

a variation of regular watches but coming with a whole bunch of features as your smartphone.

Smartwatches

an organized group of people associated as members of a community.

Society

is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

Steam engine

is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an animal or human body.

Stethoscope

is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It is used in military, marine science, search-and-rescue and tourism

Submarine

A complex system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools, organization, facilities, materials, physical resources devoted and directed to the research, development, production as well operation of a new or improved product, process or services in a reproducible way.

Technology

is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white) or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. It is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.

Television

Father of Philosophy, taught that nature was composed of or convertible into water.

Thales of Miletus

- perfected geometry, as a single logical system.

Thales,Phythagoras,Euclid

Mountain of god, served as the sacred place of their chief god

Ziggurats

comprising the post-industrial or the high technologies which are called science-intensive since they are based on the modern scientific knowledge of the structures, properties and interaction of molecules, atoms and nuclei.

Third-Wave technology

provided evidence that supported Copernicus'heliocentric theory.

Tycho Brahe

also known as thumb drive pen, pen drive, gig stick, flash stick, jump drive, disk key, disk on key- is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive

is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease.

Vaccine

first described the odometer as being used for measuring distance around 27BC, but evidence points towards Archimedes of Syracuse as its inventor.

Vitruvius

it was an integral part of the feudal economy. By using suitable mechanism, its rotary motion could be converted to reciprocal motion making it a source of general power.

Water mill

is a technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices.

Wi-Fi

was used primarily for blowing bellows, filling cloth, forging iron, sawing, weaving and threshing.

Windmill

invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight. It is used to transport parcels as well as people to other side of the world in less than a day or weeks.

Wright brothers

began a 5 year voyage on the HMS beagle that would change his life

charles darwin

top of the iceberg only a small portion of our mind is accessible to us

conscious mind

The Egyptian writing was in the form of pictorial symbols known as

hieroglyphics

made up of assorted botanical, zoological and mineralogical ingredients.

materia medica

material that is unconscious but can be easily brought into awareness

preconscious mind

is the long distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

telegraphy

completely outside of our awareness could produce anxiety if made conscious

unconscious mind


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