Science and Technology

Beginnings of science: Science and technology is as old as the mankind. Science has started to develop as people had begun somehow to try to improve their lives. The first inventions and discoveries were very simple. As the first important discovery we consider the discovery of fire and the invention of wheel. Later many important inventions like writing, reading, counting, astronomy, medicine and chemistry began to develop. Man’s effort to survive and to improve his way of life made him invent new and better tools, get deeper knowledge and control of the forces of nature. As man’s knowledge grew people found it useful to classify it. It was separated into various branches, such as physics – the study of natural forces, biology – the study of living beings, chemistry – the study of materials...