Essay On 1920s Technology

Technology of the 1920s Today, technology is being improved every year, every month, every day, every minute, meaning that the phones and computers and websites and anything technology we use today may be obsolete tomorrow. That is why technology is fascinating yet also mysterious, but it hasn’t always been this way. A long time ago in the b.c. age, technology was not anything like it is now. Back then it took years, sometimes decades, for new technology to pop into a scientist or artist or anybodies head so they could make it. Since then, each decade has given people something, but the 1920s is an interesting decade, as it is the decade that set the stage for modern technology.
The 1920s was a somewhat great, peaceful, and difficult time. …show more content…
With the discovery of insulin, Frederick Banting and accomplices started testing it on dogs with hope to find a treatment for diabetes. Penicillin wasn’t used until the 1940s where Howard Florey and Ernst Chain further developed it and it is later learned how to manufacture it in quantity. When scientists invented liquid-fueled rockets, they had no idea that the invention would lead to those rockets being used for planes and space flight. If it weren’t for Robert Goddard, we may have never been able to make jets and achieve space flight. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, the first t.v’s were quite fascinating to most americans, but it wasn’t very popular. One reason was the radio, the radio was one of the most used devices back then because americans could tune in to get the local news and sometimes just for music. Another reason was for the cost of a t.v, one t.v could cost around $55 which was a lot of money back then. But it wasn’t until 1923 that television popularity kicked off. In the year 1923 the first talking movie was invented, which made americans storm the shelves of local stores to get a television set so the can watch the new and fascinating invention, the first talking