Technology
Technology
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Technology QUIZZES
Here are some quizzes to test your knowledge about technology. You'll improve your score if you read the pages in this section of Q-files before you start the quizzes.
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Technology and engineering
Tools and machines are devices that we use to make our lives easier in some way. Using knowledge to create these tools and machines is called technology. Simple technology, dating...
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Aircraft
All flying machines are types of aircraft. Balloons and airships stay airborne because they are filled with lighter-than-air gas. Aeroplanes (known as airplanes in the US) and...
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Canals
Canals are artificial waterways, built for boats or ships to travel across land, or simply to transfer water from one place to another. In most cases, a navigable canal has a...
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Construction
People have constructed buildings from ancient times as homes to provide shelter, monuments or places of worship. Earth, wood and stone have always been used as building materials...
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Electrical power
Electricity is a type of energy that gives us heat and light and drives machines. To be useful, electricity must be made to flow in a current. In 1831 the British scientist Michael...
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Electronics
Electrons are tiny particles that are parts of atoms. An electric current is a flow of electrons. Electronics is the study of how electrons behave and how they can be controlled so...
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LET'S EXPLORE Electronics
Electronics is the study of how electrons behave and how they can be controlled so that they can do useful jobs. Electrons are tiny particles that whizz around the centre (nucleus)...
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Famous inventors
Clément Ader (1841–1925) was a French inventor. Ader improved on the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, then established the telephone network in Paris in 1880. The...
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Media and communications
Telecommunications is the sending and receiving of information using electricity, radio waves or light. The information can be data, sound or TV pictures. Data can represent text...
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Microscopes
A microscope is an instrument that magnifies very small objects, allowing the viewer to see detail in the object that is invisible to the naked eye. Microscopes are used...
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Photography
A camera is a device that records an image of a scene, either electronically as a digital photograph or on photographic film. The main features of a camera are a lens and a...
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Road transport
Motor vehicles of all kinds, including cars, buses, lorries and motorcycles, all have the same basic features. Wheels and suspension allow the vehicle to roll smoothly along the...
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Robotics and AI
Robotics is a branch of engineering that involves the design, manufacture and operation of robots. The aim of robotics is to create intelligent machines that can assist humans in a...
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Satellites
Satellites are objects that have been launched into orbit around Earth. Strictly, they are called artificial satellites (or Earth satellites) to distinguish them from natural...
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Ships and boats
In the middle of the twentieth century, steam power began to give way to diesel power. Diesel engines are smaller, cleaner, far more efficient, and need fewer crew to operate them...
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Space transport
People dreamed of travelling in outer space long before rockets were invented. In 1865 the French science-fiction writer Jules Verne wrote a story about travellers to the Moon. The...
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Telescopes
A telescope is an instrument that makes distant objects appear closer, allowing the viewer to see details that are not visible with the naked eye. Terrestrial telescopes are used...
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Trains
There are three types of modern locomotive—electric, diesel-electric and diesel. High-speed trains, such as the French Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) or the China Railways...
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LET'S EXPLORE How things work
We use tools and machines to make our lives easier in some way. Using knowledge to create these tools and machines is called technology. Simple technology, dating back many...
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