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A 5 page discussion of a few of the scientific and technological breakthroughs which occurred in the 1940s. Details are provided on the development of our understanding of disease epidemiology and treatment, the invention of streptomycin and the first human anthrax vaccination, and various inventions which would prove of phenomenal impact to the world as a whole. The inventions noted include plastics, the fax machine, and the atomic bomb. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and technological developments would occur in the 1940s. These would include such diverse arenas as the development of radiocarbon dating, an application which has proven invaluable in a number
of scientific pursuits, and the development of plastics, a material which now is a component of a tremendously high percentage of consumer goods, medical instruments, and even our cars and
houses. Even seemingly mundane discoveries of the 1940s often proved to have tremendous societal application. The scientific developments of the
1940s were not limited, of course, to inventions. There were also many medical discoveries of this time period. Serious research began on the effects of steroids, for example,
in the early part of this decade. Much of this research was based on speculative impact of steroids on human performance. European researcher Ove Boje reported as early
as 1939 that "administration of sex hormones" might result in improved athletic performance (Wright and Cowart, 1990). Athletes first began using testosterone as early as the late 1940s (Wright
and Cowart, 1990). There were other breakthroughs in this decade as well. The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are
attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), for example, would be one of the initial breakthroughs in our understanding of pheromones
and disease etiology. Although one might consider tick behavior a relatively unimportant arena of study, ticks are external parasites which attach themselves to the exteriors of their hosts in
order to gorge themselves with blood. To do so they must remain attached for a variable period of time, most often lasting several days. Unlike most parasites, ticks
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