STS - Intro to STS, Scientific Revolution, Philosophy of Science

Thomas Kuhn

Coined the term “paradigm“

Famously published The Structures of Scientific Revolutions

Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton

Proponents of Structural Functionalism

Karl Marx

Proponent of Conflict Theory

Eli Whitney

Invented cotton gin

James Watt

Created the first truly reliable steam engine in 1775

John Roebuck

Pioneered the production of sulphuric acid

Joseph Aspdin

Patented a chemical process for making Portland cement

Joseph Foljambe

Made the Rotherham plough of 1730 which was the first commercially successful iron plough

Andrew Meikle

Invented the threshing machine which displaced hand threshing with a flail, a laborious job that took about one-quarter of agricultural labor.

Peter Durand

Patented the tin can

John Hall, Bryan Dorkin

Opened the first commercial canning factory in England in 1813

Jean Lenoir

Invented the internal combustion engine in 1858

Benjamin Franklin, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday

Developed electricity as a source of power

Michael Faraday

Father of electricity/electromagnetism

Henry Ford

One of the most imperative inventors of the Industrial Revolution due to the automobile.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

First person to ever take a photograph

Alexander Graham Bell

Created the telephone

Thomas Edison

Created the phonograph

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Created the first airplane

Paul J. Crutzen

Popularized the term “Anthropocene“ which refers to the Quaternary, the most recent geological period

Michio Kaku

Referred to technology as wildcards