Worksheet for "Time Racing in the 1920s"

 

Household Technological Advancements

 

1. What rivaled the excitement of the Sacco & Vanzetti trial and execution?

 

2. What inventions were made more available to the public in the 1920s?

 

3. Who opened the first radio broadcasting station in 1920?

 

Medical Technological Advancements

 

4. Who made advancements in brain surgery?

 

5. Who discovered Penicillin and what was it made it from?

 

6. Which two people created the vaccine for B-C-G Tuberculosis?

 

Weapon Technological Advancements

 

7. What were the three names for the Thompson Machine Gun?

 

8. When was the Thompson Machine Gun most used?

 

    1. Who invented the sleek torpedo boats? When? What type of engines did it use?

 

10. Who made the first helicopter flight? When?

 

 

 

 

 

Entertainment Technological Advancements

 

11. At the end of the 20s what happened to the movie industry?

 

 

12. During the 1920s what past invention became very popular?

 

 

 

13.What 1920s artist was the first to use a method of photography without a camera? What was this method called?