Questions tagged [technology]
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How did people make things perfectly straight?
Constructing houses, telescopes, and most other important projects requires shaping pieces to precise size, at perfect right angles, or to have flat surfaces. People today have all kinds of ways of accomplishing similar precision, but only because…
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How were sailing warships maneuvered in battle -- who coordinated the actions of all the sailors?
I have wondered if the apparently complex arrangement of the sails of early 19th century vessels was reflective of a lack of understanding of the optimal arrangement of such sails (since modern sailing yachts lack so many sails) or if indeed for…
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When did the disciplinary distinction between art, science, and technology occur?
Often people talk of Leonardo da Vinci as an example of multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary successful approach towards the three fields - art, science and technology. This seems an uninformed habit because after all I think we drew lines…
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Study of path from science to technology
Much of the advertised reason for scientific research is that there is a trickle-down effect from science to technology. For instance, here is a quote by Enrico Fermi that I grabbed from Wikipedia.
Some of you may ask, what is the good of working…
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Are there historical origins of "robotic" voices seen in earlier sci fi movies?
While today text to speech technology gets so advanced that synthetic voices come quite close to human ones, during my childhood I got quite inspired by "robotic" mechanical voices in Hollywood sci fi movies of that time.
Now, my question is - was…
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Why was there so much technological advancement in the 1980s?
I was born after the 1980s so I don't really know what it was like then. However, whenever I hear older folks reminisce about all the new and innovative technology that came out back then I have to wonder why there was such a boom in the industry.…
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