Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Science-the Civilization Builder by MARVIN WOLF, C52 Illustrated by Robert Vogel, D61 Over the air waves comes a frantic appeal for help. An epidemic has broken out in a small settlement far from any hospital, far from the serum that would save many lives. Finally the message is picked up and an answer is flashed back, Keep your courage up. Food and serum are on their way. And from the city air- port a lone pilot takes off bearing the life-saving food and serum. Such an occurrence is not uncommon in these days. It dramatizes the advances our civilization has made. Only a short time ago the saving of that settlement would have been impossible. To whom do we attribute this advance, to whom are the people of that stricken settlement in- debted? Of course, you will say that the pilot of the plane was the hero, and, of course, you will be correct. However, with- out the work that a number of men did before him, some in the factories, some in the machine shops, some in the laboratory and astronomical observatory, our hero would not have been needed. No call for help could have been flashed through the air if the physicist Hertz had not discovered the properties of the waves that are named after him, and if Marconi had not developed the means of using those waves which brought forth the wire- less and radio in all their glory. Then our hero could not have flown his plane to the rescue had it not been for two bicycle me- chanics named Wilbur and Orville Wright. But the Wright brothers could never have perfected their flying machine if Gottlieb-Daimler had not produced the gasoline engine. Our pilot could never have navigated his ship to his far-away destination without the contributions of Galileo, the father of astronomy. Finally, there would have been no serum to stop the epidemic if Edward Jenner had not introduced vaccination. And so we can go on and on naming the men who basically helped save that stricken settlement. These men formed the arrowhead of our advancing civilization. These men who made civilization what it is today were not famous statesmen, con- querors, or philosophers. They were and are the men engaged in the mechanical sciences. 9

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