History of Engineering

Domestication of animals that allowed the substitution of animal power for human power occurred in what Age?

• Stone Age

• Middle Age

• Iron Age

• Information Age

____________ involves the extraction of different metal ores to create a combination of metals called an alloy.

• Domestication

• Casting

• Smelting

• Alloy

The printing press, clocks, eyeglasses, and flush toilets were all invented during which Age?

• The Information Age

• The Renaissance

• The Bronze Age

• The Iron Age

The steam engine is arguably the most important engineering achievement of the Renaissance.

• True

• False

The 20th century occurred in the late 1970s to early Present, had digital take over analog, and had a shift from industrialization to an economy based on information.

• True

• False

Religion, ceremony, and governments became better organized and more widespread in which time period?

• Iron Age

• Stone Age

• Information Age

• Bronze Age

___________ is an object produced or shaped by human craft. (can use the engineering dictionary)

• Innovation

• Invention

• Artifact

• Technology

___________ means repeating, cyclical. (can use the engineering dictionary)

• Invention

• Constraint

• Innovation

• Iterative

__________ is a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously.(can use the engineering dictionary)

• Invention

• Technology

• Innovation

• Artifact

__________ is the practical application of science to commerce or industry. (can use the engineering dictionary)

• Invention

• Innovation

• Iterative

• Technology