Change    1920-2000  Class of 41

1920

Human population estimated as  2 billion

1923 Class of 41 were home delivered and entered a world lit by fire

  

Horses powered our world, we grew up in cattle & wheat country

   

Fords 1923 Model-T, 1927 Model-T,1928 Model-A, 1936 V-8

   

1930’s dust storms drought & depression

 

Model-T Ford introduces electricity to horse power

     

All homes included radios by 1928.

1939 tractor pulled combine.

1920-30’s Live stock sale pavilion.

 

Prior and 1939 PWA build High School  Class of 41 started in old, graduated in new. WW2 began in 1939.

 

1934 B-10 1939 B-18, 1941 B-17

  

1941 P-38, P-39, P40

1942  P-47 & P-51

  

 

1945 B-29

A-bomb 1945

 

1950

Human population estimated as  2.9 billion

1951 Oldsmobile & F-84F

 

Lemaitre confirms Hubble Expansion

1948 Gamow proposed Big Bang, 1978 background radiation confirmed

  

Cosmos is expanding    Molten Earth mantel    Continents Drift.

1953 Watson & Crick solve DNA puzzle.

 

TV & Air conditioning entered the home.

                                

1955 X-10, 1960 Hound Dog

 

1958 XM-64 ICM, 1960 B-70 1960 MM I

  

Minuteman III & Man on Moon

    

B-36 bomber

B-52 bomber

C-141 Airlift

KC135 Tanker,

B-1B Bomber

 

  

Microprocessors,& memory devices make high speed processing and data storage possible

  

Internet signals via optic fibers and satellites

 

 

C-130H Gun Ship

C-17 Cargo

 

Predator Remotely controlled aircraft flown in Iraq and Afghanistan from Florida.

Alternate energy sources: Converting Wind to electricity and algae to fuel

 

2000

Human population estimated as  6 billion

 

2050

Human population estimated as  9 billion