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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday Trivia
The answer to yesterday's question is: Tim Curry.
Today's question is: Fill in the blank to complete Lewis Mumford's 1934 quote: “The _____, not the steam engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
The clock so rules teachers - we devote extra ticks and tocks to making sure our lessons conform to it. The steam engine had a more comfortable synergy in its pounding.
I've never heard of this person, or this quote. I'm gonna guess... Telephone. Maybe typewriter? He would have been way ahead of his time if he said Computer.
Peter Drucker wrote a piece about past technological revolutions and he put the printing press and the loom above the steam engine asserting that they both so hugely reduced the cost publication and, oddly, clothing, that they were the dominoes that had to fall to set the stage for dependent technologies like the steam engine.
The clock so rules teachers - we devote extra ticks and tocks to making sure our lessons conform to it. The steam engine had a more comfortable synergy in its pounding.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this person, or this quote.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna guess...
Telephone.
Maybe typewriter?
He would have been way ahead of his time if he said Computer.
The clock.
ReplyDeleteI was going to guess the telegraph but I see that isn't the answer from a Google search.
ReplyDeleteI'll guess "loom".
ReplyDeletePeter Drucker wrote a piece about past technological revolutions and he put the printing press and the loom above the steam engine asserting that they both so hugely reduced the cost publication and, oddly, clothing, that they were the dominoes that had to fall to set the stage for dependent technologies like the steam engine.