Summary of Tech Readings

          In the article, How Science and Life Interacted During the American Revolution compiled by Danny Blas we learned that cities spread outwards and upwards because a lot of people started to move into the cities and elevators were introduced.
           
             Technology helped changed how people moved around cities because we created transportation above the surface, on the surface, and below the surface during the Industrial Revolution. Above the surface transportation refers to airplanes. On the surface refers to street cars and below the surface refers to subways.
            
             Technology also changed the way we read and learn because back then it was hard to get news until printing became cheaper and newspapers were cheaper so people were able to get there information that way.

 

        In the article The Passive House: Sealed for Freshness by Sandy Keenan we learned that a passive house is an environmentally responsible house without traditional heating and air conditioning systems.
      
        To be certified you have to meet 3 requirements. The first requirement is if there has to be a certain level of  air tightness. The other two requirements are the measures of energy use. All of this requirements are tested during the construction phase so the walls don't break down.

        The people that live in expensive neighborhoods close to the passive houses are jealous and didn't want other social classes with mixed with them.
       
          Technology has changed Americans lives drastically because of the  Industrial Revolution in 2014. Now houses are in high apartment building because we have the material to spread buildings upwards. Also people can live a little bit far from work but still get in time because of all the transportation options they have.