Science and technology, 1918–1939
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Make a table of five discoveries of 1918–1939: name, year, significance.
Example: penicillin – 1928 – treating infections; insulin – 1921–1922 – diabetes; reactor – 1942; sound film – 1927; uranium fission – 1938.
2
Why are antibiotics called a “revolution”? Write 3–4 sentences.
They made it possible to treat many bacterial diseases that had often been fatal.
3
Compare the effects of television and sound film on society.
Free answer: both became mass media and entertainment; cinema was collective, television came into the home.
4
Raise one ethical question connected with nuclear physics and justify your view.
Free answer: for example, scientists’ responsibility for the consequences of their discoveries.
5
Name four household items that spread in the 1930s.
For example: refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, telephone, gramophone.