20th Century American Technology

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This century is full of exploration, but instead of using devices that get us no where to finding treasure, we have strengthened our minds and created the best technology around for things such as finding metal on a beach with a metal detector to something called a mailbox that has found hundreds of dollars worth of coins. In the passages of Florida Waters Treasure Hunters (by Scott L. Key), Weather Reconnaissance (by Harriet Jane Caldwell), and High Tech Search for Ancient Civilizations (by Juan De Los Santos) we are addressed to technology that is so advanced for researchers and explorers today, with the devices structure and efficiency.

In the 20th century, we have learned about techology for civil wars, World War 2, and more, but we have
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One end of the tube is fixed near the propeller and the other is placed in the water, aimed at the ocean bottom." In the second article, Weather Reconnaissance by Harriet Jane Caldwell, the Dropsonde Hurricane was shown and introduced, which is a small instrument attached to parachutes, used to detect and transmit weather data, and then the other invention in the passage was Weather Satellites, used to show viewers what the hurricane looks like, both of these inventions design made them withstand weather that was meant to destruct everything it was around. In the third …show more content…
In the passages, it was recognized that innovations need to have a certain structure to make them efficient for whatever difficult task that was to be acheived. In the first passage, Florida Waters Treasure Hunters by Scott L. Key, their was the water dredge, it was efficeint because it was used for the purpose to find treasure in/ on the ocean floor and it did so the way it was supposed to, and The Mailbox, which worked "when the boat engine is switched on, powerful jets of water blow sand from the floor, sometimes to the bedrock", and both creations were successful because they withstood pressure and forces of water and it found treasure. In the second passage, Weather Reconnaissance by Harriet Jane Caldwell, the Dropsonde Hurricane Sensor was described to endure powerful weather while collecting info on weather conditions, and than their was Weather Satellites that were also able to survive powerful storms that have destructed many regions, while it was able to alert the media, both of these creations withstood and successfully completed their job even in horrible enviornments. In the third passage, High Tech Search for Ancient Civilizations by Juan De Los Santos, Satellite Archeology was the invention created to find what was past/underneath the surface, that not even humans can reach, and LIDAR

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