10 Electronic Technologies That Changed Construction
Trace the roots of just about any useful device or capability derived from electronic technology and you will find yourself wading in research and development dipping back generations, even centuries.
But in construction offices and on job sites, the electronic devices that really started to shake things up began to proliferate in the early 1970s. Most were enabled by the invention of microprocessor chips and by the creation of data-handling products that brought the big-time computing capabilities previously available only to the biggest corporations and institutions down to a scale that let even small businesses create, reuse, manipulate and store digital data.