Advancements in Technology

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Advancements in Technology

• In the 1950s
• By, Deborah J. Ragone

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WWII was over!

• Advancements were made in the areas of
• Space
• Medicine
• Nucleur energy
• Television
• Computers

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The Early Space Age

• WWII Jet planes replaced propeller planes

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Problems with Jets

• The Jet plane could not fly into outer space
• It needed air to work
• No air in outer space

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Early Rockets

• Robert Goddard experimented with rockets in 1926
• The US Army used his ideas
• Rockets would work outside the earths atmosphere

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The Soviets Beat US!!!!!!

• The Soviets made the first journey into space
• They put a satellite in space.
• The satellite (Sputnik I) orbited the earth

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The US sends a Satellite

• In January of 1958, the US sent up Explorer I
• Since then, both the soviets and the US have put
  many satellites in orbit.

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Satellites

• Have many uses
• Give information about weather
• Send television signals
• For spying
• Take pictures of earth

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Humans in Space!

• Soviet, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space

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The US goes up!

• The US sent up astronaut Alan Shepard. He
  traveled 116 miles into space

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And UP!!!!!

• In 1962 the US sent John Glenn into space.
• He orbited the earth three times!

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New Medicines!

• Imagine a world without antibiotics

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Before antibiotics

• Simple infections became killers.

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Antibiotics

• Were known as wonder drugs or miracle drugs.
• The 1st was Penicillin, discovered by Alexander
  Fleming in 1928
• In the fifties, we learned how to mass produce
  antibiotics.

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Vaccines

• A vaccine is a dead or weakened form of a virus
• If exposed to the dead or weakened form, the body
  builds immunities to the virus.

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Line up for the Polio vaccine!

• Polio was a crippling epidemic
• John Salk discovered
• the concept of a vaccine
• Cows milk
• ladies

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Atomic Power

• Atomic Power comes from splititng an atom
• IN the late 50s the US began using nucleur
  energy to produce electrical power
• In 1957 the US had its first nuclear-power plant

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Television

• Were at first small with greenish screens

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By 1953.

• 20 million TV sets had been sold in America!

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Television Entertainment

• I Love Lucy, most popular TV show.
• Sports became more popular as the games were
  televised
• The 1952 Presidential election campaign was
  televised (Eisenhower)

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The First Computers

• The early computers were slow
• They were as big as a room
• They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!

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Change in the 1950s

• Americans quickly got aquainted with
• Television,
• Jet planes, wonder drugs
• Spaceships

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What changes are happening in our society today?