Inventions Of The Great Depression

When the railway had not yet existed the majority of transportation took place by wagon. It is said that traveling by wagon actually costs approximately twenty times more than traveling by rail (Doc E). As stated in Document E, traveling by rail cost less than a tenth… than it would by wagon. Therefore, a more efficient transportation route was created; this meaning that the railway was less costly, much more agile, and also safer than the traditional, inconvenient

From 1929 to the early 1940s, America was hit hard by the Great Depression. The economy plummeted to rock bottom. It affected millions of lives throughout the country, even the rich. It caused families to use shabby clothes again and again, instead of buying new apparel and wasting money. People cut back on spending and where they spent it. Then, WWII affected the economy by putting it back on track. Along with it, was the Manhattan Project, which greatly affected the U.S. The Manhattan Project (America’s nuclear bomb,) was used in Hiroshima, Japan, during WWII. The US was greatly feared by Japan and other countries then. The Manhattan Project also created the Hydrogen bomb, which was never used but alarmed the American and Soviet Union public. These were not the only events that greatly affected America. Throughout the years 1945 to 1980, many events affected US society, such as John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration Address in 1961, Elvis Presley, and color television.

In the document by, American Association of Railroad it states that even today we use railroads to transport our goods. “ In 2014 US freight rail moved 329 million tons of exports and products and 171 million tons of import products.” This shows that using the railroad we can transport goods in and out of our country in great numbers. Not only did the US benefit greatly from the railroad in the 19th century we also continue to benefit from it today in a variety of ways. We still use it to import and export products, and we still use it to transport

Before railroads were ever implemented into American society, there was another form of primary transportation. In the early 1800s, goods and passengers were carried by ships. For some time, boats on rivers, lakes, and the ocean proved to be adequate enough to convey freight and people where it needed to go. However, these methods of transportation often posed problems of being too slow and too inconvenient. First appearing in the 1830s, the railroad business grew and in 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed, allowing people to think about more efficient settlement across the country. Railroads were the fountainhead of American expansion because they provided for town and city creation and development across the entire United States.

Though there is now a vaccine for yellow fever, it was not yet developed in 1793. Doctors were at a bit of a loss regarding how to calm the blazing flames of yellow fever epidemics around the world. Some doctors began to use bloodletting as a treatment for yellow fever, which was a very therapy common in early medicine. Bloodletting involves the removal of “bad” or infected blood from the body to rid it

During the early 1800’s America needed a type of transportation that was faster, cheaper, and more reliable. So when in 1811 the British made the first successful railroad it did not take long for Americans to start building the first common railroad the Baltimore and Ohio in 1828. After the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built America felt railroad fever and hundreds of railroads were built. The Railroad changed the American economy and culture in just a few years.

Railroads became extremely popular in America in the 1800’s. The railroad industry itself began to boom; it was supported by its reputation for speed and efficiency. But, along with the booming industry of railroads came the strong debate that

Yellow fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever, was one of the deadliest diseases to hit North America. It is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. When a person is infected with the disease, the symptoms of high fever, nausea, vomiting, yellowing of the skin (also known as jaundice) and muscle aches occur. The cause of Yellow Fever was not known to colonial doctors. It would not be known until 1900. Until then, eighteenth century doctors used the only knowledge they had to fight the

In the year 1790, the United States had begun to make a name for itself. The United States was ending its own revolution and the world was evolving around it. The country’s new found freedom created a need for self-reliance. The United States was out to prove its worth, that its institutions, democracy, and military were worth the efforts of so many. During this time the number of inventions created throughout the world was astonishing. Inventions like: the cotton gin, batteries, cupcakes, crackers, gas turbine, and bicycles are just a few inventions that were created during this time period. Donalad W. Banner, U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, wrote The Book of Knowledge where he explained that before the patent was created

Mandatory vaccination continues to be a contentious subject in the United States, even though extensive evidence proves inoculation prevents certain diseases. According to A. Plotkin & L. Plotkin (2011), the evolution of the first vaccine commenced in the 1700’s when a physician named Edwards Jenner discovered that cowpox protected individuals from one of the deadliest diseases termed smallpox. The precise virus Jenner used is unclear; however, it was espoused in the extermination of smallpox worldwide. The researchers further explained, the unearthing of the subsequent vaccine known as chicken cholera occurred approximately 80 years later by Louise Pasteur. Ever since, copious vaccines such as rabies, yellow fever, varicella, pneumococcal, mumps and recently HPV have been introduced.

A number of “immigrants with advanced knowledge of English technology arrived in the United States eager to introduce new machines”(From Revolution to Reconstruction), and among them, the development of the steam engine. During the beginning stages of the nineteenth century, railroads only played a minor role in America’s transportation systems. At this time, the more common sources of transporation pertained to turnpike road networks, and canal and waterwat networks which were built depending on the terrain and structure of the land. But the railway network that was created in the preceding years and allowed better efficiency in accordance to time. Raw materials and products could be moved more quickly and cheaper than before (Barnett). It allowed ideas to spread more quicly, from previously what was by horse and by man to communicate among others. The work of railroad pioneers eventually led the nation to be linked together, and eventually became the number one transportation system, and remained for almost another half a century until met by the construction of the interstate highway during the twentieth century. It basically played a huge role in stimulating economic expansion, and was eventually pervasive all throughout the American society.

Yellow Fever, an epidemic that broke out in 1793. The people treating this disease was the doctors from Philadelphia and France. And what was happening is that this yellow fever was being treated. Now you this all started in 1793 when yellow fever started breaking out worse than ever. Now where this is happening was in Philadelphia. This happened is because of those pesky infected mosquito. This happened because with the infected mosquito came infected refuges. The worst part is trying to figure out how many people died because no one really knows exactly how many people died. We know it’s somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 and it’s so sad what happened and that back then we didn’t know enough about this to really help

Railroads changed the way people traveled and allowed people that worked in the cities to live further away from the city. As an example, San Francisco was the first city that used cable cars to allow citizens an easy was to travel around the city. Another popular means of transportation were the trolleys. Eventually subways became more popular than cable cars and trolleys because they allowed a way to travel around the city without interfering with regular traffic and pedestrians. All of these means of transportation gave people the opportunity to live outside the city where it was less crowded, but they could work in the

First, in 1796, a doctor named Edward Jenner performed the very first vaccination. “Taking pus from a cowpox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand, Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps. Six weeks later Jenner variolated two sites on Phipps ' arm with smallpox, yet the boy was unaffected by this as well as subsequent exposures” (Minna & Markel, 2005)& (Cave, 2008). The first vaccination allowed people to recognize that it was beneficial for their health. It provided the base for the rest of the variations of vaccinations to come. Vaccinations began with the notion that it is rooted in the science of immunology. Throughout history, there have been many variations of this first vaccine for things such as small pox, mumps, malaria and guinea worm. (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, n.d.)

According to my research, in 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox disease however during this time only cows were infected. This vaccine came from the cowpox virus. In 1809, the state of Massachusetts became the first to mandate the smallpox vaccinations then in 1879 a group of Anti-Vaccination of America was formed and their belief is that no one should be forced to vaccination. They believed that the vaccine was spreading the disease instead of preventing it. In 1986