In this essay, I examined the idea of ‘technological revolution’ to confirm whether it connotes a sort of incorporation of existing technologies as new ones emerges or whether it portrays a ‘sharp discontinuity’ from the prior technologies. I began by exploring the dictionary definitions of ‘revolution’ in order to appropriate its usage in relation to technological advancement, progress, evolution or change. Then, I proceeded to investigate the historical accounts of technological revolutions with an attempt to narrate what happened. Juxtaposing scientific and technological revolutions, I discovered the influences they both had on each other as the concept of ‘revolution’ could be said to be applied in the same sense to both fields of human inquiry. I concluded by displaying my own understanding of the concept of ‘revolution’ as applicable to technological revolutions in Africa.