Eric Schouest Taylor Dossett Jason Hanner

1800: Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. 1814: Joseph Nicephore was the first to take a photograph. It took 8 hours for the camera to take the picture. 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England. 1812: Peter Durand invents the tin can.

In the 19 th century Thomas Jefferson believed voters could be divided into two “Natural” parties known as the Democrats and Republicans. Federalist Party: Is considered the first American political party in this time. Whig Party: Was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson’s policies and came together in They remained a major party throughout the 1840’s.

Christian Scientist : Founded by Mary Baker in the late 1860’s and 1870’s, Christian service vies creation as spiritual. The churches held the bible as authoritive yet interprets it in a distinct way focusing on Jesus. Jehovah's Witness no longer set specific dates but believed that Gods kingdom will follow Armageddon, the great war described in the bible.

In the 1930’s the Great Depression took place causing a lot of people to go into chaos. Crop failures, drop in cotton prices, and sudden drops in stock markets were examples. There were changes in the methods of production as steam and eventually electricity became widely used, replacing workers, wind and water in most large scale manufacturing processes.

Born April 5, 1827 and died February 10,1912. He supported Pasteur's beliefs that infection due to oxidation or spontaneous generation of pathogens. He was known as the father of modern surgery. He increased the cleanliness in the operating room and decreased the amount of deaths and infections after surgery.

Born March 27, 1845 and died February 10,1923. He saw a glowing fluorescent screen on a table at the University of Wurzburg and determined that the fluorescence was caused by invisible rays coming from the partially evacuated glass that was being used to study cathode rays. For his discovery he detected and produced x-rays which we use today to view the inside of the human body.

Born January 21, 1868 and died February 8,1946. He synthesized aspirin by replicating salicylic acid, a substance found in willow bark. Aspirin was the first mass produced drug, for consumers used it as a pain killer but latter found that it prevents strokes and heart attacks.