Modern Science

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, edited by James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, "Technology"
Events and people in modern science from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, which contains definitive and comprehensive information on all the fields of essential human knowledge from ancient to cutting-edge.
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Title Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W

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secondary recovery (Technology)
semiconductor (in electronics, electricity)
short circuit (in electricity)
silicon (element)
silicon chip (Technology)
Silicon Valley (region, United States)
solar cells (in electricity)
sonic boom (in physics, acoustics)
space shuttle (vehicle)
space station (vehicle)
SST (abbreviation)
stealth technology (in the military, technology)
Steven Jobs (Business Personality / Computer Scientist)
streamline (in physics)
superconductivity (in electricity)
superconductor (Technology)
synfuels (Technology)
synthetic polymers (Technology)