Based on our survey of history of western technology

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Assignment:

For a long time, the history of technology was a history of heroic individual inventors. More recently, historians have sought to complicate this picture, emphasizing factors other than key individuals. In your view, based on our survey of the history of Western technology this term, how historically influential have individuals been? Can one person really make a significant difference in the direction or effects of technological developments? Has the ability of an individual to make a difference changed over the centuries? If so, why? And if not, why not?

In answering the question, you should examine around three to four specific cases from the course, covering material from both before and after the Industrial Revolution.

Please talk about James Watt (steam engine), Thomas Edison (light bulb), and Fred W. Wolf (refrigerator). Come up with a introduction paragraph (with a thesis), 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Include facts to support the argument.

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