For example, from document 1 was all for technology, because it’s concerning flood prevention, which ruins crops, homes, and people. They ordered inspection of wells, and walls, in the cities and suburbs, which are all examples of technology. More examples of for technology include Huan Guan’s, “Discourses on Salt and Iron”. Workers were allowed to do foundry work and salt-boiling. Tools manufactured by individual families were well-made. Today we have brittle tools made by prison workers, this still influences technology in previous civilizations. An upper-class philosopher named Huan Tan wrote that …show more content…
He also payed attention to beauty, and grace, and utility. Roads which are still around today were built throughout the country. They were paved with quarried stone and made solid with tightly packed sand. Since the roads didn’t really have curves, they would be either put at ninety-degree angles, or a hole would be cut into a mountain, which still is a matter of technology. He also measured the whole road mile by mile, and set up stone columns as distance indicators, which is something we still do today.
Seneca, believed that tools for crafts were invented by wise men, but he still believed that both the hammer and tongs were invented by someone with a mind that was strong, but not great, He was all for technology, and that is had great uses, but he wasn't for the people that made the technology, in fact, he called them simple-minded, and not willing to do their work in order to shorten his statement. What came first, just that it was incredibly useful and made things easier. Frontinus found aqueducts fascinating really, they brought water from places that were quite far away and yet they still had a source of clean water that they could do whatever with after it was filtered. Filtration is an example of technology, they had used filtration where the waters were put into containers, where they lose their sediment. The water volume is measured by scales as