Eindhoven University Of TechnologyEindhoven University Of Technology
Technology is usually thought-about too narrowly; according to Hughes, “Technology is a inventive process involving human ingenuity”. The earliest recognized use of wind energy is the crusing ship; the earliest document of a ship underneath sail is that of a Nile boat courting to the 8th-millennium BCE. From prehistoric times, Egyptians in all probability used the facility of the annual flooding of the Nile to irrigate their lands, steadily learning to regulate much of it by way of purposely constructed irrigation channels and “catch” basins. The historical Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a fancy system of canals and levees to divert… [...]