What Importance Does a Historical Understanding of Technology Have

What importance does a historical understanding of technology have?   Use an example of a specific technology that will support the answer.
The steam engine is the icore technologyn in the eighteenth century Industrial Revolution at England, which for the first time to solve large-scale manufacturing and use of human power problems. Originator of the steam engine era is that main of reason is   British textile machine was inventioned and improvement, it need some new power; And British coal mining industry also need a new power machinery, the invention of the steam engine was inventioned by this thing.②
The invention of the steam engine, steam power instead of human, conduce the first technological revolution in the modern world.
The late 19th century, with the rise of electric power, the steam engine as a power station was once the main power machinery. In 1900, New York had single steam engine power up to five megawatts of power machinery.
In 1784, steam engine as a power machine, not only has been widely used in the textile, mining industry, but also promote the use to transportation, metallurgy, machinery, chemicals and a series of industrial sectors, that is make the social productive forces has an unprecedented high-speed development. It makes textile production increased by 5 time in within 20 years (from 1766 to 1789) at the United Kingdom , provide a large number of consumer goods for market , accelerated the accumulation of capital, and for transport made an urgent request.
Invention of the steamboat opened up a new era in the history of world shipping, which the shuttle sides of the river tides make ocean navigation possible. Britain Steven Sun ③was continue to improve motorcycle, created the "Rocket" steam locomotive in 1829, the train towing a coach which have 30 passengers, speed of 46 km / h, causing many country's attention, creating a railway era. Steam power for road transport of main indicator is the emergence of the train, to make the world...