List of technologies - Definition and Overview

This is a list of technologies

Early or prehistoric advances in technology or fundamental tools

• Agriculture
• Astronomy
• Animal husbandry
• Cooking
• Clothing
• Fire
• Inclined plane
• Lever
• Mining
• Pottery
• Pulley
• Screw
• Weaponry
• Wedge
• Wheel
• Writing

Modern major fields of technology

• Life science
  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • Genetic engineering
  • Medicine
• Domestic technology Further technology items employed around the homestead.
• Education
• Energy storage
• Environmental technology
  • Waste
  • Water purification
  • Sewage treatment
  • Remediation
• Instrumentation
• Materials
  • Metallurgy
• Microwave
• Maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Measuring instrument
  • Clock
  • Compass
  • Sextant
• Microtechnology
  • Microfluidics
    • Digital Microfluidics
  • Microphotonics
• Machinery An index to further categories of machines and mechanisms.
• Molecular engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Nuclear reactor
• Space technology Introduction and index of further specific topics in this field.
• Transport
• Telemetry
• Nuclear technology
  • Nuclear power
    • Fission
    • Fusion
    • Antimatter
    • Radioisotope Thermal Electric
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Nuclear weapon
  • X-Rays
• Weapons
  • Biological weapon
  • Chemical weapon
  • Nuclear weapon
  • Small arms
    • Musket
    • Rifle
    • Handgun

Media technologies

• Visual technology
  • Photography
  • Printing
  • Video
• Audio/Sound Technology
  • Acoustics
  • Analog recording
  • Digital recording
  • Sound reproduction
  • Live Sound Reproduction
  • Music technology

Electrical Technology

• Electricity
  • Fundamental Electrical Technology
    • Resistor
    • Inductor
    • Capacitor
  • Electric power
    • Electricity generation
    • Electric power transmission
    • Electricity distribution
    • Power control
    • Electric motor
    • Electric light bulb

Information technology

• Electronics
  • Klystron tube
  • Relay
  • Vacuum tube
  • Semiconductor
    • Diode
    • Transistor
    • Integrated circuits or IC's
      • Very-large-scale integration or VLSI integration
      • System-on-a-chip
• Computing technology Index of hardware and software computing related topics.
• Cryptology
• Cryptography