The Role Of Inventions In The 1940's

Imagine a world today, where instead of watching the news, a person would have listened to it. Instead of playing with LEGOs, a child just read a book. Or instead of heating food up in a microwave, a man just heated it up on a stove. Or even life without a computer. It sure would be hard to imagine living like that, wouldn’t it? Well that’s what life would be like today without inventions from the 1940’s. Color TV, LEGOs, Microwaves and many other things that mankind uses today were invented in the 1940’s. Some of these things had great effects on mankind, some of them not.

There were a lot of things that were invented in the 1940’s, the Jeep, Duct Tape, and Silly Putty are a few examples. These things have changed the world in many ways.
First, the positive effects.

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There were many positive effects from the technological advances that came about in the 1940’s. The first US jet plane, the Bell XP-59A Airacomet, was first flown in 1942. While this plane was never used in combat during World War II, it gave the United States Air Force and the United
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States Navy valuable experience with jet aircraft technology and helped pave the way to more advanced designs. Radar was later developed to help guide planes and was first used in the 40’s. Another positive effect came from Penicillin. Penicillin is an antibiotic that was invented in the 40’s and helped many soldiers that were injured in WWII live. It changed the medical community and advanced it much like the blood bank (mentioned previously) and the X-Ray did. Penicillin is still widely used today, but there are better options. Duct Tape was invented in the 40’s and was used for sealing ammunition boxes. It has since been used for many other things to date, but it was

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It provided a watertight seal, and could only be cut open.

Among the positive effects, there were many negative effects to go along with the ride. The Atomic Bomb, for instance, caused death and destruction in Japan in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Hundreds were killed with the initial blast, but the radiation poisoning was what killed so many of them. Besides the atomic bomb, there was also the experiments the Germans did on the Jews. Not only did they gas them, and shoot them, but they performed horrible experiments on them. Most of the experiments resulted in death, trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability. These experiments include: Experiments on twins, Bone, muscle, and nerve transplantation experiments, Head injury experiments, Freezing experiments, Malaria experiments, Immunization experiments, Mustard gas experiments, Sulfonamide experiments, Seawater experiments, Sterilization and Fertility experiments, Experiments with poison, Incendiary bomb experiments, High altitude experiments, and Blood coagulation experiments. These experiments are too scary to explain.
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