ABSTRACT
Human beings are by their very nature technological creatures: they need to know, they want to find out. Since man first appeared on this planet he has used his inborn talents and abilities to continually raise his standard of life. As problems confronted him through his development so he has attempted to solve them-some solutions were good, others were bad. He developed language in order to communicate with his neighbours, he fashioned primitive tools and weapons to build better shelters and improve his hunting capability. The problems of feeding larger numbers of people resulted in simple basic farming methods. Man has also polluted areas of his environment and caused the demise and, in some cases, the extinction of other creatures. Only time, sophistication and scale separate these early problems from those of the present day. Technological activity varies from the relatively simple, such as the building of the model chassis or cube shown in the following chapter, to the complexities of the space shuttle.
