STS Flashcards
Paleolithic Age - Stone axes, bone needles, hunting strategies based on animal observation.
Mesolithic Age - Leatherwork, basketry, fishing tackle, stone axes, wooden objects, domesticated animals.
Neolithic Age - Pottery, polished stone tools, spinning and weaving tools, wooden plows, sickles.
Bronze Age - Bronze jewelry, tools, weapons, rise of early civilizations.
Iron Age - Iron-bladed plows, iron weapons, military dominance, increased food production.
Mesopotamian Civilization - Wheel, cuneiform writing, first constellations, 12-month lunar calendar.
Babylonian Civilization - Algebra, asphalt-covered roadways, astronomical tables.
Ancient Egyptian Civilization - Hieroglyphics, papyrus, ink, bronze plows, sundials (obelisks), 365-day calendar, toothpaste, medical surgery tools.
Ancient Greek Civilization - Geocentric model, astrolabe, Earth's circumference calculation, separation of religion from science.
Claudius Ptolemy - Geocentric model, epicycles, retrograde motion of planets.
Galen - Gladiator wounds, study of human anatomy, influential medical figure.
Ancient Romans - Aqueducts, sanitary systems, roads, steam engine, crossbow, catapults.
Renaissance - Printing press, heliocentric model, anatomy, architecture, art innovations.
Nicholas Copernicus - Heliocentric model, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.
Tycho Brahe - Tychonic model, refined astronomical instruments, large body of precise data.
Johannes Kepler - Three laws of planetary motion, elliptical orbits, speed of planets.
Galileo Galilei - Telescope improvements, Jupiter’s moons, moon craters, heliocentric supporter.
Isaac Newton - Laws of motion, universal gravitation, light composition, calculus.
Thomas Savery - First crude steam engine, based on pressure cooker.
James Watt - Steam engine efficiency improvements.
George Stephenson - Stephenson’s Rocket, first steam locomotive, father of railways.
Karl Benz - Motorwagen, throttle system, gear shifter, modern automobile.
Thomas Edison - Incandescent light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures, power station.
Nikola Tesla - Alternating current (AC), Tesla coil, radio technology.
Wright Brothers - 1903 Wright Flyer, first successful airplane, aviation pioneers.
Hans Christian Oersted - Electric current causes magnetic field.
Michael Faraday - Electric motor, generator, electromagnetic induction.
Samuel Morse - Telegraph, Morse code, long-distance communication.
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone, voice communication over distances.
Alessandro Volta - First battery, Voltaic pile.
Lee De Forest - Vacuum tube, radio signal amplification.
Guglielmo Marconi - Wireless telegraph, Titanic rescue communication.
Charles Babbage - First mechanical computer, father of the computer.
Henry Ford - Assembly line production, affordable automobiles.
Wernher von Braun - V-2 rocket, space exploration.
Paleolithic Age - Stone axes, bone needles, hunting strategies based on animal observation.
Mesolithic Age - Leatherwork, basketry, fishing tackle, stone axes, wooden objects, domesticated animals.
Neolithic Age - Pottery, polished stone tools, spinning and weaving tools, wooden plows, sickles.
Bronze Age - Bronze jewelry, tools, weapons, rise of early civilizations.
Iron Age - Iron-bladed plows, iron weapons, military dominance, increased food production.
Mesopotamian Civilization - Wheel, cuneiform writing, first constellations, 12-month lunar calendar.
Babylonian Civilization - Algebra, asphalt-covered roadways, astronomical tables.
Ancient Egyptian Civilization - Hieroglyphics, papyrus, ink, bronze plows, sundials (obelisks), 365-day calendar, toothpaste, medical surgery tools.
Ancient Greek Civilization - Geocentric model, astrolabe, Earth's circumference calculation, separation of religion from science.
Claudius Ptolemy - Geocentric model, epicycles, retrograde motion of planets.
Galen - Gladiator wounds, study of human anatomy, influential medical figure.
Ancient Romans - Aqueducts, sanitary systems, roads, steam engine, crossbow, catapults.
Renaissance - Printing press, heliocentric model, anatomy, architecture, art innovations.
Nicholas Copernicus - Heliocentric model, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.
Tycho Brahe - Tychonic model, refined astronomical instruments, large body of precise data.
Johannes Kepler - Three laws of planetary motion, elliptical orbits, speed of planets.
Galileo Galilei - Telescope improvements, Jupiter’s moons, moon craters, heliocentric supporter.
Isaac Newton - Laws of motion, universal gravitation, light composition, calculus.
Thomas Savery - First crude steam engine, based on pressure cooker.
James Watt - Steam engine efficiency improvements.
George Stephenson - Stephenson’s Rocket, first steam locomotive, father of railways.
Karl Benz - Motorwagen, throttle system, gear shifter, modern automobile.
Thomas Edison - Incandescent light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures, power station.
Nikola Tesla - Alternating current (AC), Tesla coil, radio technology.
Wright Brothers - 1903 Wright Flyer, first successful airplane, aviation pioneers.
Hans Christian Oersted - Electric current causes magnetic field.
Michael Faraday - Electric motor, generator, electromagnetic induction.
Samuel Morse - Telegraph, Morse code, long-distance communication.
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone, voice communication over distances.
Alessandro Volta - First battery, Voltaic pile.
Lee De Forest - Vacuum tube, radio signal amplification.
Guglielmo Marconi - Wireless telegraph, Titanic rescue communication.
Charles Babbage - First mechanical computer, father of the computer.
Henry Ford - Assembly line production, affordable automobiles.
Wernher von Braun - V-2 rocket, space exploration.