Technology
This article is about the use and knowledge of techniques and processes for producing goods and services. For other uses, see Technology (disambiguation). A steam turbine with the case opened. Such turbines produce most of the electricity used today. Electricity consumption and living standards are highly correlated. [1] Electrification is believed to be the most important engineering achievement of the 20th century. Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη , techne , "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία , -logia [2] ) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "... principles , processes , and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science , and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument [compensation [3] ] of those who pursue them" [4] . Principle is a term defined current-day by Merriam-Webster [5] as: "a compreh...