Instead of specific inventions, …………….decided that the measure by which to judge the evolution of culture was energy.

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• ………….differentiates between five stages of human development: In the first, people use energy of their own muscles.In the second, they use energy of domesticated animals’.In the third; they use the energy of plants (agricultural revolution). In the fourth, they learn to use the energy of natural resources: coal, oil, gas. In the fifth, they harness nuclear energy.
• …………… introduced a formula P=E*T, where E is a measure of energy consumed, and T is the measure of efficiency of technical factors utilizing the energy.
• In ……………words, "culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased or as the efficiency of the instrumental means of putting the energy to work is increased".
• For ……………"the primary functions of culture" is to "harness and control energy”.
• ………….concept of three major stages of social evolution (savagery, barbarism, and civilization) can be divided by technological milestones, such as fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
• Russian astronomer, ………………., extrapolated his theory creating the Kardashev scale, which categorizes the energy use of advanced civilizations.
• …………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally named the IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence.
• In the early 1970s, ………………published a corpus and concordance of Indus writing listing about 3700 seals and about 417 distinct signs in specific patterns.
• ………….credited the spinning wheel with increasing the supply of rags, which led to cheap paper, which was a factor in the development of printing.
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