STS Historical Antecedent

Scientific Revolution

Period refers to the great scientific intellectual achievements

Universe Model

sun is the center of the Universe

Law of Planetary Motion

All planets revolve around the sun in ELLIPTICAL not circular orbits.

Work of Motion

Discovery of the relations among distance, velocity, acceleration and the law of inertia

Laws of Motion

3 Laws by Isaac Newton

Laws of Universal Gravitation

A particle in the universe attract every other universal particle

Charles-Augustine de Coloumb

Law on electrostatic interaction and frictional electrostatic instrumentation

Alessandro Volta

Cell or battery

Hans Christian Oersted

Electricity generated magnetism

Andre-Marie Ampere

How electric current produces magnetism

Paul Erman

First measurement of earth’s magnetism

Michael Faraday

Magnetism generates electricity

James Maxwell

Unification theory of electricity and magnetism

Heinrich Hertz

Radio waves

Wilhelm Roentgen

Discovery of X-rays

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

First mercury thermometer

Benjamin Franklin

Distinguish negative and positive charges

Antoine- Laurent de Lavoisier

- Chemistry as science -

Combustion experiments

Henry Cavendish

Oxygen combustion produces water

John Dalton

Atomic Theory

John Joseph Thomson

Electron

Humphry Davy, Jons Jacob Berzeliu and others-

Discovery of new elements

Auguste Laurent and Charles Gerhardt

organic chemistry

Robert Hooke

Cell

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

microorganisms

Carolus Linnaeus

binomial nomenclature of classifying species

Mary Anning

first Itchthyosaur fossils

Georges Cuvier-

comparative anatomy

Robert Brown

cell’s nucleus

Martinus Beijerinck

- first known virus

Crawford Long

- used ether in surgical operations

Wilhelm Wundt

- experimental psychology

Charles Darwin

theory of evolution

Louis Pasteur

- Vaccine against rabies

Daniel Hale Williams

- first open heart surgery

20th Century

Formal advancement of communication, transportation, agricultural matter, and different fields of science.

Information Age

Birth of personal computers and an era of easy access on any information.

Johannes Gutenberg

invented the movable type printing

Media

can pass information through and to people from all walks of life.

Incunabula

(cradle or birthplace)

Pre-Gutenberg World

Books were written and produced by hand.

• Clay, wax, papyrus, parchment

• Only elites can afford

• Information – Word-of-mouth channels.

Gutenberg Revolution

Introduction of printing

• Books printed using presses in the beginning of the Gutenberg era

Post-Gutenberg Revolution

Emergence of the internet and world wide web.

• Uploading and downloading

• Passing of information is much faster.

Computer

Designed for mathematical calculation and simple decision making

The Internet

Fiber-optic- allowed billions of bits of info to be received every minute

World Wide Web

Basically for commercial purposes

Online transactions

Electronic Mail or Email

Avenue in which messages are passed/exchanged between people at faster rate.

Facebook

People could contact one another and meet on-line to share each other’s thoughts, ideas, experiences, photos, videos

• Build relationships, business transactions, source of games

Twitter

People post and interact with messages or “tweets” for just 140 characters

• One of the most visited websites

• SMS of the Internet

Messenger

Instant messaging service and software application

• Written messages, voice calls, video calls

• One-to-one interaction or group conversations

Youtube

Largest online destination and the third most visited website

• Best way to share videos

Google

Most used search engine

• Yahoo is one of its competitor

Instagram

Fun photography app that is gaining fame all over the globe