\[ **BT: [[home]]** ] --- # technology ## elements of technology - see: - [[measurement, observation, and control]] --- ## major fields of technology - see: - [[food production]] - [[textile production]] ### major industries #### manufacturing ##### furniture ###### beds - [[standard sizes for Australian beds.]] - [[standard sizes for Chinese beds.]] #### information processing and communication systems - see: - [[measurement, observation, and control]] - [[information technology]] - [[knowledge#knowledge preservation and management]] - [[ink]] ##### communication and information theory [[In early imperial China, there was a belief that sound was distributed in certain ways throughout the year; calculating and measuring this was as critical as calculating the seasons.]][^1] ### military technology #### weapons - see: [[weaponry, historical|historical weaponry]] [^1]: Noa Hegesh, ‘[[Hegesh, ‘Mind the Gap’, 2021|Mind the Gap: Acoustical Answers to Cosmological Concerns in First-Century B.C.E. China]]’, *Isis*, vol. 112, no. 4 (2021), p. 649. <https://doi.org/10.1086/717069>.