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1787 E. A. W. von Zimmermann Polit. Surv. Europe Pref. iii A new branch of scientific knowledge, viz. technology, or the theory and accurate description of useful arts and manufactures, was much cultivated in Germany.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 228 (Germany) Academical sciences..under the name of Technology, Economy, Science of Finances, and Statistic.

1825 T. H. Horne Outl. Classif. Libr. 5 Abbé Girard..divides human knowledge into six classes, viz. Theology, Nomology..and Technology.

1881 P. Geddes in Nature 29 Sept. 524/2 Of economic physics, geology, botany, and zoology, of technology and the fine arts.

1930 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 16 539 To her, and to her son,..chief of the technology department of the Detroit Public Library, the Editor is indebted.

1998 Textile Horizons June 5/2 He obtained his..MSC Tech and PhD in Textile Technology from the University of Manchester.

1829 J. Bigelow Elem. of Technol. p. iv The importance of the subject, and the prevailing interest, which exists in regard to the arts and their practical influences, appear to me to have created a want..in our courses of elementary edication... To embody, as far as possible, the various topics which belong to such an undertaking, I have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries, and is beginning to be revived in the literature of practical men at the present day.

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 437 Little valued in European technology it [sc. the chakazi, or ‘jackass’ copal] is exported to Bombay, where it is converted into an inferior varnish.

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele II. 202 His technology consists of weaving, cutting canoes, making rude weapons, and in some places practising a rude metallurgy.

1949 in W. A. Visser t' Hooft First Assembly World Council of Churches 75 There is no inescapable necessity for society to succumb to undirected developments of technology.

1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society ix. 99 Improvements in technology..are the result of investment in highly organized scientific and engineering knowledge and skills.

2007 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 4 Mar. (Herald-Times ed.) e10/1 The growing field of bio-art, a broad term for the blend of art, technology and science that is attracting artists, scientists and controversy.

1898 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 37 119 A number of patents were granted for improvements in this technology.

1935 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 39 166/2 No European language possesses a technical vocabulary completely adequate to a facile description of the advanced technologies displayed in these fabrics.

1971 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 18/2 In the production of millions of children a year, it is not surprising that occasionally nature's complex technology should break down to produce an imbalance of hormones with masculinisation of the female foetus or feminisation of the male.

1985 Marxism Today May 34/1 People with the technology use it to avoid commercial breaks, either by zapping through other channels or by fast-forwarding material recorded off-air.

1993 Beaver June 3/2 Whatever course is charted—back to old traditions of parliamentary initiative or toward new technologies of inclusion—the razzmatazz, balloon-blowing, cheerleader-led leadership convention appears to be on its way out.

1994 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 7 Feb. 4 Dongfang was rebuffed when it tried to import Japanese technology to make refrigerator compressors, forcing the company to develop its own design.

2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Oct. b4/5 They both plan to..exploit a technology called ‘multi-threading’, in which chips execute parallel strings of instructions known as threads.