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Pendulum Clock
The Dutch philosopher and mathmatician, named Christiaan Huygens invented the first pendulum clock, along with other sea faring clocks that allowed the most accurate time keeping for people. The newest pendulum pocket watch allowed society to advance because now we can accurately travel to far places and still keep a mental connection to modern society allowing more accurate global trading, but on the negative side, if you did not possess a clock you were not seen as educated or with society. -
Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian musical instrument maker, invented the first piano. The piano is very influential to global society, because with the creation of the piano it defined a new level of social class- drawing a distinction of high society. If you attended an event with piano music, it automatically is considered 'classy'. As a positive it created an image of high class, but on the negative side, it made a wider gap between -
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negatively by creating factories needed to make the cans, often became the jobs of the poorer people found that as a way to work instead of on farms creating food, allowing a distinct separation between profits of the newly created middle class, versus the poor serfs and farmers -
Tin Can
Peter Durand, a British merchant, was the man who invented the tin can, allowing for preservation of food. This allowed us to preserve foods and transport them further, while staying edible longer. This was positively impacting society by creating a new way to travel and live, and not having to waste food or starve from lack of food, allowing people to travel further and live far from agricultural bases. Impacting society negatively by creating factories needed to make the cans, often became -
Crayons
Edwin Binney and his cousin Harold Smith created the original "Crayola crayons" . Crayons are a wax mix that is colored and children can draw with them on paper. They impact society by creating a new way of making art, and allowing color to fill pictures. They impact society negatively because they are more of a mineral mix that if digested or left to nature will not decompose because of the oils in it. -
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Society now is a more colorful place, finding pasttimes for children, allowing something for kids to do that is cheap while parents are at work. All children use crayons, creating no class distinctions. -
Birth Control Patch
Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical created the first actual birth control patch. It is a little thing like a band aid that you stick to your skin and gives you (through your skin) the proper hormones to feel like you are taking a daily pill, to regulate and control menstrul cycles. This has positively impacted society by allowing females to try to controle unruly side effects of periods, and given confidence that females -
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no longer need to take (or forget) pills to prevent accidental pregnacy or regulating violent side effects. The negative impact on society is, that now women who use devices such as this or pills, create a stereyotype against females, blaming users as 'slutty' or considered lower class, when in reality it is a great advancement in medical technology.
