Danube High School - Falcon Yearbook (Danube, MN)

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Without realizing it, England instilled in the colonists the individual purpose and ingenuity that necessity breeds. With trade goods cut to a minimum, determined young leaders of the time set out to find ways of surviv- ing without support from the Mother Country. Agricultural methods and machines and labor saving devices were designed by our forefathers. As frontiers opened, Yankee genius had to conquer natural barriers in the wild new country, so suspension bridges were invented and methods of transportation were perfected for the purpose of opening the untamed areas. Later, they sought to section off the land with the revolution- ary and controversial invention — barbed wire. Cooper s 1-horsepower Tom Thumb train in 1830 and later, automobiles like the first Model T, and the 4-horsepower airplane ; became American modes of travel from city to city and coast to coast. Americans knew that the fertile lands of this nation would produce unequalled harvests if machines were designed to take over for man. They knew also that trade routes were difficult to travel and manufacturing would have to be done close to home. The cotton gin, textile looms, drill presses and a reaper which could cut six times as much grain as a hand scythe were some of the tools invented. Protection for themselves and for their young country prodded inventors like Eli Whitney to perfect firearms and others to work on plans for the first submarine. Young inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison (called the nation's most valuable citi- zen) visualized machines that would light the country and open up communication with those in the far cor- ners of the nation. The telephone, telegraph, phono- graph and the first light bulb were discovered in the late 1800's and early twentieth century. This American way of doing for oneself inspired many to become inventors in their own right. Some sought to save labor and mass- produce for profit while others envisioned not only riches, but excitement and adventure as they discovered w ys to defy nature. Throughout the past 200 years the American mind has been unleashed to take whatever paths necessary to ful- fill the needs. In the last half-century, the pace of dis- covery has been overwhelming and inventions for the taming of the universe lie in the grasp of America while the habit of finding a way' is ingrained in its people. The seeds of industrial America were sown by these inventors resulting in today's mechanized society.

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ANOftf M) CARNEGIE «KipjAlMllK railroad and Stf industries He behoved tftat it ms the dut» ot a rich nun to dotnbute tin •e»'!h during tin lifetime To that end. he established 2800 libraries and men, cultural hats throughout Serving to unprecedented loot terms as President of the United SUtes FRANKLIN DUANO ROOSEVEl! ms a popuUr feeder « 0 mede ««tensive use of fireside red o chats to etpUin hrs plans and generate enthusiasm to push them throufh Congress A IrUtune pass on for machinery led HENRY FOB) to Detroit where in 1896 he completed ha first motor ve h«lc The ford Kotor Company manufactured the first Modet f in 1909 ROBERT FROST s poetry ns dear understated well metered a«d laid the stories of rural America He was a loaf time winner ot the Pulit er Prut and has been called America s poet laureate One of the most elementary symbols ot the American ny of Me was established when i EDGAR HOOVER and ha federal Bureau of investigation G men set out to clean up the country Hrs career spanned over 40 years A plam. homely woman with tremendous appeal to the masses, who ms always m the thick of things de- scribes ELEANOR ROOSEVELT a»d her l.tetime ot pofa ticking beside her husband durmg ha four terms The crippler poliomyelitis was conquered by OR JONAS SALR m 1953 afler more than 25 years of research Potio was reduced by 96 m less than ten years SAUs re search continues m California at the Salk Institute KARTIN LUTHER RING ms a leader m the cause of enrd rights He had been a pastor before turning to the cause of segregation Ha leadership earned him the Nobel Peace Pure m 1964 He was assassinated by lames Earl Ray m 1968 Lieutenant Colonel JOHN 61ENN started America's tm ets to outer space when he became the first American to orbit the earth He had been an aviator m World War II and a test pilot m peacetime The motion picture industry was revolutmnued m Ameri ca and DAVIO WARN GRIFFITH became Mown as the Father of the film art and ' king of directors for ha part hi ttws revolution His camera techniques were the pioneering steps ot the industry THURGOOO KARS HALL a the first Negro I serve as a notice of the Supreme Court Ha law career was aimed primarily at civd rights cases GERALD R FORO. the first President to achieve the of- fice without an election in 1974 through a series of scandalous events the Niton administration toppled and FORD reached the position through approval by Congress