Science And Technology In The 1940’s Have you ever wondered how technology and science got so advanced? Many different items that we use today started from something that may seem small, such as, medicine, cell phones, and even irregular things like guns and bombs. Linus Pauling once said, “Science is the search for truth. It is not a game in which one tries to beat others.”
While not a game, it is fought like one. Scientists have developed weapons and strategies to progress their performance on the battlefield. While in the process of using their advanced knowledge about nuclear substances to begin one of the biggest technological breakthroughs throughout the 1940’s. Said invention made the United States the world’s first nuclear power.
“Perhaps the most important and controversial of these projects was the research on the Atomic Bomb” When a famous scientist escaped from Nazi, Germany in 1933, he wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him of the danger soon to come if the U.S. did not start research on nuclear fission immediately. That famous scientist was a man named Albert Einstein. In 1942, President Roosevelt approved the “Manhattan Project” to start looking into nuclear weapons. …show more content…
Heatly brought up the idea of Penicillin all the way back in March of 1940. “Laboratory and clinical studies have shown the Penicillin is highly effective against the Hemolytic Streptococcus.” (Scarlet Fever Defeated wit Penicillin, Page 1) Howard Florey studied chemotherapeutic effects of Penicillin by infecting four of eight mice with streptomyces Pyogenes. Howard Florey stated that, “The mice treated with Penicillin survived, whereas the other four died within fifteen hours.” Another scientist named Henry Dawson and his co-workers accepted the antibiotic grounds of Penicillin in September when he “took a bold step and injected Penicillin into a patient at Columbia Presbyterian
While not a game, it is fought like one. Scientists have developed weapons and strategies to progress their performance on the battlefield. While in the process of using their advanced knowledge about nuclear substances to begin one of the biggest technological breakthroughs throughout the 1940’s. Said invention made the United States the world’s first nuclear power.
“Perhaps the most important and controversial of these projects was the research on the Atomic Bomb” When a famous scientist escaped from Nazi, Germany in 1933, he wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him of the danger soon to come if the U.S. did not start research on nuclear fission immediately. That famous scientist was a man named Albert Einstein. In 1942, President Roosevelt approved the “Manhattan Project” to start looking into nuclear weapons. …show more content…
Heatly brought up the idea of Penicillin all the way back in March of 1940. “Laboratory and clinical studies have shown the Penicillin is highly effective against the Hemolytic Streptococcus.” (Scarlet Fever Defeated wit Penicillin, Page 1) Howard Florey studied chemotherapeutic effects of Penicillin by infecting four of eight mice with streptomyces Pyogenes. Howard Florey stated that, “The mice treated with Penicillin survived, whereas the other four died within fifteen hours.” Another scientist named Henry Dawson and his co-workers accepted the antibiotic grounds of Penicillin in September when he “took a bold step and injected Penicillin into a patient at Columbia Presbyterian