Wednesday, September 23, 2009

National Histoy Day!!!!



  • What was the innovation called?
  • Penicillin
  • When was it adopted or developed?
  • Antibiotics are a relatively recent discovery and the first practical one, penicillin, was not available until the early 1940s.
  • Who was involved, or, in other words, who were the innovators who created, designed, or implemented the innovation?
  • Sir Alexander Fleming was a british scientist who discovered it in 1928.
  • What benefits did it provide, and to whom?
  • It benefited Martie and it allowed her not to feel any pain during her surgery.
  • How was it received?
  • doctor he or she is called the anesthetist their face with a cloth and tell them to start counting. Then the doctor would give them a couple of drops onto the cloth and ask them to start counting.a

  • What is “in History”? What else was happening in that time and place that allowed the innovation?
  • Fleming discovered penecillin in 1928 when he noticed mold growing in a lab dish a common bacteria.
  • How has the innovation changed over time? How have our thoughts about it changed?
  • The innovation of penecillin has changed over time because now we get penecillin from a needle or pills. It also ha changed the way we think because about it because now we can just go to the doctors and get it from him but back in the day people where dyeing because they did not have the penecillin.

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