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

2. 1850—gas lighting
1855—raising of the city street grades
1858—steam engine

3. 1863: able to pack 9000 hogs in… 3 months

4. 1866: Cook County Hospital

5. 1867: Water Tower and tunnels

6. 1873
Palmer says his hotel is fireproof and challenges competitors to set fire to it

7. 1878—Bell phone
1884—technology
of the skyscraper
1892—el train

8. 1893: Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st open heart surgery

9. ALSO 1893: World’s Columbian Exposition showcases technology

10. 1894: first free public baths in Chicago

11. 1900: Sanitary and Ship Canal
This building technology was used to reverse the river, and in the construction of the Panama Canal

12. 1905: Ford automobile

13. 1906: The Jungle –meatpacking and sanitation issues

14. 1927—municipal airport
1933—Century of Progress Fair

15. 1937 First blood bank in the world opens at Cook County Hospital
Reattachment of severed fingers

16. 1942: first self-sustaining nuclear reaction

17. 1943
At University of Chicago, first bone marrow transplant and first successful chemotherapy treatment
First public subway (red line)

18. 1949—work begins on 1st interstate highway
1953—Sara Lee frozen foods

19. 1955: McDonald’s and the fast food revolution

20. 1973: Sears Tower is the world’s tallest building

21. 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