Coverage of Technical Progress at the beginning of the XX century on the Pages of the Journal “Vestnik Znaniya” (1903–1917)

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the number of new technical inventions that transformed the life of mankind in the 20th century was rapidly growing -electricity, cars, airplanes, reinforced concrete structures, etc.Today, technological progress continues and proceeds at an equally rapid pace.The relevance of this study is related to the need for philosophical and cultural understanding of issues of technical progress.The study of the history of the issue of how society related to technical changes in culture at the beginning of the 20th century was carried out on the basis of content analysis of articles in the journal "Vestnik znaniya" (1902)(1903)(1904)(1905)(1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914)(1915)(1916)(1917)(1918), publisher V.V. Bitner).The journal was educational in nature and set itself the goal of familiarizing a wide audience of readers in the Russian Empire with the phenomena of modern life.Based on the results of studying the magazine, the cultural-philosophical position of the magazine's publishers in relation to technical progress was revealed, and a list of the main technical inventions was presented, which were described on the pages of the magazine as the most significant technical discoveries of the early 20th century.Content analysis of journal articles was carried out on the basis of a study of a selection of issues for 4 years -1903, 1908, 1913 and 1917, which made it possible to trace the evolution of the educational activities of the journal publishers in relation to issues of technical progress.