Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Technology

Technology , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} an art + -logy; compare Greek {not transcribed} systematic treatment: compare French technologie.]

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Technology is not an independent science, having a set of doctrines of its own, but consists of applications of the principles established in the various physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc.) to manufacturing processes. Internat. Cyc.