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WWII was over!
• Advancements were made in the areas of
• Space
• Medicine
• Nucleur energy
• Television
• Computers
Problems with Jets…
• The Jet plane could not fly into outer space
• It needed air to work
• No air in outer space
Early Rockets
• Robert Goddard experimented with rockets in 1926
• The US Army used his ideas
• Rockets would work outside the earth’s atmosphere
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
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.
Satellites…
• Have many uses…
• Give information about weather
• Send television signals
• For spying
• Take pictures of earth
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.
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.
Line up for the Polio vaccine!
• Polio was a crippling epidemic
• John Salk discovered
• the concept of a vaccine
• Cows & milk
ladies
Atomic Power
• Atomic Power comes from splititng an atom
• IN the late 50’s the US began using nucleur energy to produce electrical power
• In 1957 the US had it’s first nuclear-power plant
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)
The First Computers
• The early computers were slow
• They were as big as a room
• They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Change in the 1950’s
• Americans quickly got aquainted with…
• Television,
• Jet planes, wonder drugs
• Spaceships