ST112: Science, Technology and Society

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ST112: Science, Technology and Society

Syllabus http://www.colby.edu/sts http://www.colby.edu/sts/st112_2010 Introductions Top news stories What is STS?

Top news stories #1 Bombing of Hiroshima

Top news stories #2 Lunar Landing

Top news stories #4 Wright Brothers’ airplane

NEWSEUM TOP STORIES OF THE 20th CENTURY (US only) http://www.newseum.org/century/ Radio signal spans Atlantic 1901 Wrights fly first airplane 1903 #4 Einstein conceives relativity 1905 U.S. radio broadcasts begin 1909 Plastic revolutionizes products 1909 “Unsinkable” Titanic sinks 1912 Ford creates assembly line 1913 Panama Canal opens 1914 World War I begins 1914 U.S. enters World War I 1917 Lindbergh flies Atlantic alone 1927 Penicillin discovered 1928 Official U.S. debut of TV 1939 U.S. drops atomic bomb 1945 #1 ENIAC accelerates computing 1946 Scientists invent transistor 1948 Birth control pill OK'd by FDA 1960 Shepard first American in space 1961 'Silent Spring' warns of eco-danger 1962 Men first walk on the moon 1969 #2 New polio vaccine works 1953 DNA's structure discovered 1953 First computer chip patented 1959 Deadly AIDS disease identified 1981 Shuttle Challenger explodes 1986 World Wide Web invented 1989

How about in your lifetime? 1990-2010?