Technology facts for kids

Depending on when the word technology is used, technology is:

• The tools and machines that help to solve problems or do new things;
• The techniques (knowledge) that includes methods, materials, tools, and ways for solving a problem (such as building technology or medical technology);
• A culture-forming activity (such as manufacturing technology, or space-travel technology).
• Using resources to solve a problem (such as knowledge, skills, processes, techniques, tools and raw materials).
• A term to describe the level of achievement in science, mathematics and engineering of a group or culture.
• In economics, technology is the current state of our knowledge of how to put resources together to produce wanted products (and our knowledge of what can be produced).

Information technology

Main page: Information technology

• A set of tools that help you work with information and perform tasks related to the informal processing.
• Information technology is not limited to computer technology (hardware and software) used for processing and storing information, but also include sending communications technology recycle information.
• Technology that combines computing with the lines of communication that brings high speed data, voice and video.

Genetic engineering

Main page: Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering (GE), also called genetic modification, is a branch of applied biology. It is the changing of an organism's genome using biotechnology.

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Images for kids

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  An abatement technology, known as a thermal oxidizer, destroys contaminants in airstreams from industrial processes before reentry into the atmosphere. Air pollution control technologies provide an energy efficient solution for the reduction of outdoor air pollution, whereby air pollution kills 3.3 million people a year worldwide.

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  A steam turbine with the case opened. Such turbines produce most of the electricity that people use. Electricity consumption and living standards are highly correlated. Electrification is believed to be the most important engineering achievement of the 20th century.

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  The spread of paper and printing to the West, as in this printing press, helped scientists and politicians communicate their ideas easily, leading to the Age of Enlightenment; an example of technology as cultural force.

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  The invention of integrated circuits and the microprocessor (here, an Intel 4004 chip from 1971) led to the modern computer revolution.

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  Antoine Lavoisier conducting an experiment with combustion generated by amplified sun light

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  A primitive chopper

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  Hand axes from the Acheulian period

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  A Clovis point, made via pressure flaking

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  An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools

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  The wheel was invented circa 4000 BCE.

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  The automobile revolutionized personal transportation.

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  F-15 and F-16 flying over Kuwaiti oil fires during the Gulf War in 1991.

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  Luddites smashing a power loom in 1812

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  This adult gorilla uses a branch as a walking stick to gauge the water's depth, an example of technology usage by non-human primates.