Transcript Short History of Design & Technology

Short History of Design &
Technology
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Early Humans
• Created tools out of need.
• Tools for hunting, making shelter, clothing and jewelry
• They used material that was available to them
• The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age
• These were nomadic people who traveled where food was
found.
• Shelters were temporary and portable
Stone Age
Stone Age: is a broad prehistoric time period during which
humans widely used stone for tool making.
Bronze Age
Bronze Age: refers to a period in human cultural development
when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic
and widespread use) included techniques for smelting copper
and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin
ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together,
and cast them into bronze artifacts.
Iron Age
Iron Age: was the stage in the development of any people in
which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were
important.
The Agricultural
Revolution
• People started to farm. Planting and grow from seed and
staying around to harvest.
• Larger communities stated to come about.
• With the start of agriculture people created better shelters,
potter was developed for food storage.
• New tools were developed like the plow and the wheel
The Industrial
Revolution
• The steam engine
• Factories grew and were able to create textile product at
lower costs
• Luddites
• Manufactured product had little attenion to detail
The 1800's
• Communication was as fast as the mail would travel (by
walking or riding on a horse).
• 1850's the telegraph was invented
• May 1869 the transcontinental railroad was completed
across the US.
• Invention in this time frame were electric motor, the car, the
telephone and innovations in the chemical industry.
• The Wright brothers flew in 1903
• Henry Ford "mass producted" the automobile.
The Rise of Industrial Design
Arts and Crafts Movement
William Morris produced furniture, jewelry, metalwork and
textiles.
Morris returned the craft tradition of hand-made products.
Art Nouveau
• New Art
• Used curving lines and intertwining patterns based on
flowers, trees, vines and long flowing hair
Art Deco
• Art Deco is characterized by straight lines and curves and
geometric shaped.
• Streamlined look was applied to aircrafts, trains, cars, ocean
liners, radios, clocks and furniture.
• The expression, "Form Follows Function" was introduced.
The Technological Age
Computer
Transistors
Penicillin
Cell phones
Internet