Part I. Short answer. Write a paragraph (at least 100 words) for EACH of the following topics.Make sure to 1) describe/define the item by giving an example from the course, and 2) discuss its importance to the history of technology.
1) Prince Practitioner
2) Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge is kind of knowledge that cannot transfer to others by using the single words. In other wor
3) Technology Transfer
Part II. Choose TWO items from the list below andwrite a paragraph (at least 100 words) for each of the following topics.Make sure to 1) describe/define the item by giving an example from the course, and 2) discuss its importance to the history of technology.
1) Porter Beer
2) Ancillary products
3) Imperial supplies
4) Quinine
5) Whipstaff
Part II. Essay. ChooseTWO of the following and write an essay of about 350 words for each.
1. Choose TWO of the four applications of technology that the Courts were interested in during the renaissance period. Make sure to provide an example for each and discuss how it related to patronage.
2. Industrialization dramatically changed the lives of the English people. Choose one of the English cities we covered in class and discuss how they changed (for example, Health, Gender, Labor relations, Anti-technology sentiments, Prosperity) with the rise and expansion of industrialization.
3. Of the many ways the invention of the printing press in 15th century changed Europe society, choose TWO and discuss them.
4. Why was the Herring Buss an important innovation during the Dutch Golden Age, and how did it compare to Tulip Mania?
5. Why did the Americans succeed in building the Panama Canal, where the French had failed?
Part III. Personal opinion. Discuss the following in a paragraph (at least 150 words). Use examples from the course.
A. Choose one of the periods we have covered so far in the course, and discuss how a specific technology was on the one hand a positive change on society, and on the other a negative one.