using the development of reflecting telescopes as an example, explain how scientific inquiry leads to advances in technology

A scientific inquiry can be described as the different ways in which scientists tend to study about the phenomenons occurring in the natural world.

To make advances in scientific inquiries, scientists have to come forward with better technologies than the past to get a better understanding of the events occurring in the natural world.

For example, the telescope was the technology designed by Galileo in 1609 for astronomical observations. The reflecting telescope was designed by Newton in 1668 which was far better than Galileo's telescope and could make better observations.