Technology
Denn er war der Mann, der das Lied der Technik vom Amboß seiner Werkstätte aus hell und laut hinausklingen ließ in die Stille des Dorffriedens. Wenn er den großen Hammer schwang, daß die Funken sprühten, dann mußte das glühende Eisen sich formen und biegen nach seinem Willen. Heute noch steht die Dorfschmiede, in der mein Großvater schon im Zeitalter Napoleons sich die Sorgen vom Herzen herunterhämmerte.
Karl Benz, Lebensfahrt eines deutschen Erfinders, 1925
Technology in business (Businesses) and art means handling a material using processes and methods of a scientific nature (Science). Technology forms the basis for organised mass production in factories (Factory). Technology is divided up into different fields (Division of labour), such as, printing technology (Printing methods), energy engineering (Energy), telecommunications (Networks), mechanical engineering and traffic engineering (Travelling).
The industrial revolution was driven to a great extent by the possibility of technical innovations: steam-driven and electrical machines, chemicals and steel production, new methods of freight and passenger transport, and ultimately the up-and-coming communications technology breathed life into new branches of the economy. The heyday of the book and newspaper market at the end of the 19th century was also down to technical innovations like printing and typesetting technologies (the Schnellpresse automatic printing machine, the rotary press, typesetting machines).