Explain with reasons: It is essential to study the history of technology.

Reason: the history of technology explains how human progress and mechanisation took place.

• Technology is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
• Man's progress from making stone tools to agricultural production was a big step in the evolution of mankind and was based on technology.
• Later the advancement of science led to the mechanisation of production.
• To understand how mechanisation developed and how science and technology depend on each other, we must know the history of technology.
• This knowledge also helps in planning new technology and in industry and management.

Hence it is essential to study the history of technology.