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Air conditioning
-Many of the central changes in our society after after ww2 wouldn't have been possible if ac was not keeping homes and work places cool.
-Everyone wanted ac down at the sun belt, (including theater) in Hollywood golden age. where ac its self was an attraction so when it was exploding around 1950's cars,homes,and businesses had people migrating down south were its hot as hell. -
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Polio Vaccine by Dr Jonas Salk
- Jonas Salk developed the 1st effective polio vaccine in 1952. His vaccine was tested in the Francis field trail when it begin it involved approximately 4.000 children,but would grow to eventually involved around 1.8 ,million children across 44 states it was the largest medical experiment at the time.
- Jonas Salk developed the 1st effective polio vaccine in 1952. His vaccine was tested in the Francis field trail when it begin it involved approximately 4.000 children,but would grow to eventually involved around 1.8 ,million children across 44 states it was the largest medical experiment at the time.
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friendships 7
the friendship 7 is a capsule that John Glenn went to space in and he was the first american to orbit the earth . it lead to mercury into earth orbit and enable Glenn to circle earth 3 times -
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pres. Kennedy's "Moon speech"
we choose to go to the moon ," was delivered by JFK it was one of Kennedy's earlier speech meant to persuade the American people to support the national effort to land a man on the moon -
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g.I bill
-It gave serviceman changes to go to colleges and trade schools, or buy houses of business. Because serviceman re going to trade schools