Necessity Is The Mother of Invention or From Quest For Fire to Great Balls of Fire or from Mary Had A Little Lamb to Nothing Like the Smell of Napalm In The Morning

An Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Thematic Unit Teaching the Impact of Technology on U. S. History (1877 to 1997) The impact that technology has had on human development has been tremendous. From the introduction of the simple wheel to the sophistication of the space shuttle, man's progress along the technical developmental highway hs been filled with challenges and consequences. This unit will examine the impact of technology on economic, political, and social systems in the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States