U TAH IN THE 20 TH C ENTURY : G LOBAL I MPACT Technology, Medicine, & Transportation.
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UTAH IN THE 20 TH CENTURY: GLOBAL IMPACT Technology, Medicine, & Transportation
Transcript of U TAH IN THE 20 TH C ENTURY : G LOBAL I MPACT Technology, Medicine, & Transportation.
UTAH IN THE 20TH CENTURY: GLOBAL IMPACTTechnology, Medicine, & Transportation
WHAT IS THIS? Philo Taylor Farnsworth,
inventor Born near Beaver Utah Many inventions/patents The American public
continues to purchase television sets for their homes. In the year 1945, there were fewer than 10,000 sets in the country. By 1960, there were 52 million sets in American homes, which is one in almost nine out of ten households. This figure soared to 219 million in 1997.
Television and pop culture1. New Heroes/American Royalty
2. Shape world view/ politics.
3. Define & change cultural Norms
4. Pop Culture= America’s new religion
MOST RECENT TELEVISION STATISTICS BY NATION
Rank: Countries: Amount: # 1 China:400,000,000 (1,344,130,000 pop in
2012)
# 2 United States:219,000,000 (313,914,040 pop in 2012/ 114,761,359 households)
# 3 Japan:86,500,000 # 4 India:63,000,000 # 5 Russia:60,500,000 # 6 Germany:51,400,000 # 7 Brazil:36,500,000 # 8 France:34,800,000 # 9 United Kingdom:30,500,000# 10 Italy:30,300,000
WHAT IS THIS?
“Utah Arm,” artificial arm
Dr. Stephen C. Jacobsen at the U of U Medical School
1981 Since come out with
Utah Arm 2 & 3- simultaneous hand & elbow control
Revolutionized medical aid for elbow amputees
Utah Arm: Artificial Limb
WHAT IS THIS? Transportation in Utah
Interstate Highway I-15 Created along Utah’s old US
Route 91 in 1974 Runs north–south through
Intermountain West 10th longest freeway in U.S. 2nd
longest North South by-way Runs through Montana, Idaho,
Arizona, Nevada, & California Modern Mass- Transit
systems. Gateway hub for air/rail/
transit
Transportation
WHAT IS THIS? First successful artificial heart
implanted Dr. Willem Kolff began Utah
artificial organs program & Dr. Robert Jarvick refined the model
Patient lived for 112 more days University of Utah 1982 Artificial hearts are typically
used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in case transplantation is impossible
Influence in world of medicine
What is this?
Morton Thiokol Specializes in
Space & Aeronautics
Develops and builds rocket and missile propulsion systems
Employs over 15,000 people worldwide
Annual sales of around $840 million.
WHAT IS THIS? 2nd Half
The program was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young University for use in 1979
Alan Ashton & Bruce Bastain
Word processing program for PCs
Still used today for homes & businesses across the world
Art in Utah
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