TOPIC 4: TECHNOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL ADVANCES 1847—McCormick Reaper factory

1850—gas lighting 1855—raising of the city street grades 1858—steam engine

1863: able to pack 9000 hogs in… 3 months

1866: Cook County Hospital

1867: Water Tower and tunnels

1873 Palmer says his hotel is fireproof and challenges competitors to set fire to it

1878—Bell phone 1884—technology of the skyscraper 1892—el train

1893: Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st open heart surgery

ALSO 1893: World’s Columbian Exposition showcases technology

1894: first free public baths in Chicago

1900: Sanitary and Ship Canal This building technology was used to reverse the river, and in the construction of the Panama Canal

1905: Ford automobile

1906: The Jungle –meatpacking and sanitation issues

1927—municipal airport 1933—Century of Progress Fair

1937 First blood bank in the world opens at Cook County Hospital Reattachment of severed fingers

1942: first self-sustaining nuclear reaction

1943 At University of Chicago, first bone marrow transplant and first successful chemotherapy treatment First public subway (red line)

1949—work begins on 1st interstate highway 1953—Sara Lee frozen foods

1955: McDonald’s and the fast food revolution

1973: Sears Tower is the world’s tallest building

And finally… 1983—cell phone test site 1985—opening of Deep Tunnel to limit flooding 1995—death row probe using DNA 1999—trying to prevent Y2K problems