By: Kayla Hinds Lynn White Jr., in his article “Medieval Uses of Air”, examines past technologies. White began the article by explaining the relationship between science and technology. They weren’t always studied together. White says that science was mainly used to understand nature, while technology “was an exclusively practical attempt to use nature for human…
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Transition to Medieval Tech
Jean Gimpel’s Chapter 4: Environment and Pollution in “The Medieval Machine”
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In this chapter the historian, Jean Gimpel, discusses the effects of the industrial revolution of the Middle Ages on the environment in Western Europe. Gimpel makes it quite clear that there were very great adverse impacts as a result of this increase in industry mostly on the forests because of heavy deforestation, whether it be …
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“The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages”~by Jean Gimpel | Chapter 1 Sumary
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During the Middle Ages, there was a revolution in the use of machines in Europe. Their applications in industries were expanded. This expansion of technology was one of the main factors which led to the dominance of the Western hemisphere over the rest of the world. Most common was the Mill, which converted the force …
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Summary of Reynolds’ “Medieval Roots of the Industrial Revolution”
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In this reading, Reynolds talks about Water power and its role in the industrial revolution, starting in medieval times. He starts out by describing different rudimentary water wheels, for example vertical undershot wheels, vertical overshot wheels, and horizontal wheels. Although these wheels were developed far before medieval times; they didn’t become widely used until the …
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Summary of Reynolds’ “Medieval Roots of the Industrial Revolution”
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The common consensus is that the Industrial Revolution began when steam power suddenly began to replace manual labor at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century. However, in Reynolds’ article titled Medieval Roots of the Industrial … Continue reading →
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Landels: Power and Energy Sources in the Ancient World
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Jared Cochran In this article, Landels goes into detail about the limited types of energy sources that the people of the ancient world used and had at their disposal. The first one that Landels goes into is the trivial one which is man power. However, as we know, there are only so many things that…
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Landels “Power and Energy Sources in Ancient World” by Aaron George
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With the advent of the first steam engine in the early 1800s, followed by the harnessing of electric power a few decades shy of the 20th century, modern man began to rely heavily on machines as a source of power. Run by steam, electricity, or combustion, one modern machine can do the job of many men…