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Paper
Inventor: Cai cun.
What is it?: Material manufactures in thin sheets from the pulpo fue the wood or other fibrous substances.
How affected society?: It is used for writting, drawing, printing on or as wapping material. -
Electricity
Inventor: Robert Symmer
What is it?: A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles , either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
How affected society?: Electricity is central to the ability of almost all modern societies to function, like hospitals, air traffic control systems, street lights, modern sewage systems and most forms of communication, etc. -
ICE (Internal Combustion Engine)
Inventor: Nicolaus Otto and Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir
What is it?: Its an engine that generates motive power by the burning of gasoline, oil, or other fuel with air inside the engine, the hot gases produced being used to drive a piston or do other work as they expand.
How affected society?: The internal combustion engine boosts our travel, and therefore changes our perspective of time and space. Cars, trucks, and other such machines that use internal combustión, engine speed up our travel. -
Vaccination
Inventor: Edward Jenner.
What is it?: Is the administration of antigenic material to simulate an individuals immune system to develope adaptive immunity to a pathogen.
How affected society?: Its an enourmous contribution to global health. -
Homme appliance
Inventor: Joel Houghton
What is it?: Home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions.
How affected society?: Facilitated the house work. -
Telephone
Inventor: Alexander Graham and Antonio Meucci.
What is it?: Is a communication system that transmit the voice and sound in a large distance by electronic medias.
How affected society?: Its a quickly communication between 2 or more peple in a large distance. -
Radio
Inventor: Guillermo Marconi
What is it?: Is the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages.
How affected society?: Multiplying the efficiency of oral communication and effectiveness of the written word. -
Airplanes
Inventor: Wright brothers
What is it?: Is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.
How affected society?: Gives so much benefit to local communities, from air ambulance helicopters, to corporate aircraft moving people swiftly and efficiently to locations. -
Theory of Relativity
Inventor: Albert Einstein
What is it?: General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to other forces of nature. -
T.V
Inventor: Philo Farns Worth, John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jekins.
What is it?: Is a machine with a screeen, that receive broadcasting signals and turn them into pictures and sound.
How affected society?: Is the main device that entertains people in a positive or negative way -
Antibiotics
Inventor: Sir Alexander Fleming.
What is it?: Medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
How affected society?: The effect on society is to save lives as well as disabling or disfiguring infections. -
Computer
Inventor: Konrad Zuse
What is it?: Its an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
How affected society?: Allow people to have access to their social media accounts which has decreased the amount of physical communication. -
Color T.V
Inventor:John Logie Baird
What is it?: Color television is a television transmission technology that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.
How affected society?: It changed the way we watch tv. -
Internet
Inventor:Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
What is it?: Its a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
How affected society?: Billions of people use the Internet in their daily lives, so our actions, thoughts and communication skills on the Internet impact society positively or negatively. -
Social Media
Inventor:Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
What is it?: They are websites and applications that allow users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
How affected society?: They have revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on the Web.
