Science and Technology…

Towards New Era’s Edison and

Einstein
“My Perspective”

Jeyadarsan
I have studied in Jaffna Hindu College.
What are these ?

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Are you interested in those pic’s ?

If yes! then, How?

 Come ! we will start ?
• Recall a story that was told by your grandma.
• Pretend her style of storytelling!
• Take a blank paper and lumps of clay!
• Find out a ‘Handmade art’…

That’s it !
World, Character and Story
As you know, He is good at it!

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 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Musician, Scientist,
Mathematician, Engineer, Inventor, Anatomist,
Geologist, Cartographer, botanist, and Writer.

His Engineering and inventions

His journals includes drawings of
musical instruments, hydraulic pumps,
reversible crank mechanisms, mortar shells,
steam cannon.

source: www.encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
 American Dream

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 Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor and businessman

His Engineering and inventions

telegraphs; telephones; phonographs;

generators; voltmeters; mimeographs; light
bulbs and filaments; and vacuum pumps

Source: www.encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
 Atomic ‘Guru

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 Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist, philosopher, and author

Scientific Career
Published hundreds of books and articles.
Areas of contribution

Physics, thermodynamic fluctuations, special

relativity, photons, quantized atomic vibration,
wave particle duality, principle of equivalence
and many more…

source: www.encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
 How Breakthroughs Happen ?
• Idea of innovation: Result of synthesizing, or
“bridging,” ideas from different domains.
• Exploiting the past!
• Innovation is as much social as it is technical.
• Usage of work of others(collective work).
• fundamentally new visions from entirely novel
knowledge(rare case, risky)

Book - How breakthroughs happen: the surprising truth about how companies innovate /
Andrew Hargadon, 2005.
 Unknown…Network that surrounded
the electric light bulb in 1870s

• From Moses Farmer Edison had seen bulb in

1859
• Joseph Swann’s experiments in the 1850s and
again 1870s with incandescent bulb.
• J.W.Starr, who had filed for a U.S patent on
the incandescent bulb in 1845

Edison… alone?
Book - How breakthroughs happen: the surprising truth about how companies innovate /
Andrew Hargadon, 2005.
From Steam Engine…
…to Nano technology

Where are we heading today?

What for?
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 Telecommunication
Waves and vibrations!
•Optical fiber.
•Wireless and high frequency transmission.
•Satellite communication.
3G, 3.5G…
Blue tooth, Wi fi, Broadband, Wi Max…
Smart phones…
No boundaries…
 Computing and Internet
Microsoft, Apple, …
Google, Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Amazon …
Artificial Intelligence

Photo source: Official website of NASA

Structural Design
• Burj Khalifa (2,717 ft)
• Chile-mine rescue shaft (2300 ft)
 Electric Power Generation

• Nuclear Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Bio fuels
• Thermal Energy
 Nanotechnology
Everything in atomic level
•Bio-medical Engineering
•Sensors
•Manufacturing Engineering
 Space Exploration and NASA Video _ 2

• International space station.

• Usage of Humanoid robots.
• Reusable space vehicles.
• Mars exploration.
Source: NASA
 But… What about CO2
Science and Technology have to find ways to
reduce the emission of CO2.

“ Carbon Footprint ” challenges the future !

Your time will have a prefix “Sustainable” in

every aspects.
 So, After A/L’s….
There is huge, big WORLD waiting for you away
from your School…

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Thank You
Quotation inspiration: Steve Jobs