Scientific Advances
Inventions
- Insulin was created by Fredrick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best. With this new discovery diabetes was no longer deadly disease. This changed every ones life by people with diabetes not dying of the disease often as they did in the past.
- Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming. It was the first modern antibiotic. This later helped saved many lives from infections. Antibiotics also helped slow or stop infections.
- Iron Lung was invented by Philip Drinker. This helped people breath better; it worked as a medical ventilator. It was often used on victims of tuberculosis.
Inventions
- Television was created John Logie Baird but Charles Francis Jenkins created the first moving picture. Now people had a form of new entertainment.
- Traffic light was invented by a police officer named Williams Pot. This helped reduce the amount of car accidents and helped traffic move a bit faster.
- First liquid-fueled Rocket was invented by Robert Goddard. NASA used the method to build the rocket on other space inventions