Don't be alarmed! This quote does not mean that you cannot come up with new ideas, it means that everything has to have come from somewhere. Think about it, what had to happen or be invented in order for Apple to come up with an iPad? Would your smarthphone be possible without cellular communication? We can even backtrack all the way and thank Samuel Morse and his telegraph. You could even make the case that Volta's voltaic pile started it all!

 

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By now, you know exactly how the technology you chose works. Part of understanding and identifying areas of growth is knowing how something came to be. For this portion of your project, you will research and write about the history of your chosen technology. 

 

As previously stated, you do not need to backtrack all the way to the discovery of fire, but you do need to know your technology's history. This is also the time to explore how society changed because of the different innovations that brought about your chosen technology.