Hazleton Area Vocational Technical School - Vocari Yearbook (Hazleton, PA)

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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 Ccalled the nation's most valuable citi- zeni 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 ways to defy nature. Throughout the past 2.00 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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NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OP X jf 1515.

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THEY MADE THEIR M RK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankrupt Quaker corsetmaker. some- time teacher. preacher and grocer wrote the most brrls tuant pamphlet ot the American Revolution. Hrs words rn Common Sense reltlecterflongings- and asplraluonsllhat have remained Dart ol American culture to this day. DAHlEL WEBSTER chose law as a career and went on to hecomemellsknuwn rn the courts and in polrtics. He was twice Secretary ol Slate with an eye always to the Presi- dency whrch eluded hrm. Chiel luslrce IUHN MARSHALL established lundamenlat principles ol Amerrcan constitutional law. Hers noted lor tus precedenlal dectaralron ot a Congressional act as unconslrlulronal. He served through lrve admimstraf tions, lrom l8Dt-lB3S. l l l , l I l ABRAHAM LINCOLN eprtomrzed the American dream ot a humble young man ascending lo the highest uflrce ol the land. He was superbly skilled at analyzing complex ls- sues and translatrng them into meaningful words lor the public. He was devoted to the preservalron ol the Union. Born a stave rn Maryland. FREDERICK DOUGLASS taught himself to read and write secretly and, at Zl. escaped to lreedom. He was an ardent abotlhonist campaigning successlully lor Negro sultrage and civil rights. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE wrote Uncle Tnm's Cabin In an eltorl to make the whole nation realize the rnhumani- ly ot slavery Her book resulted in one ol the most popue lar and controversial plays on the American stage The Civil War was kindled by' this work. l l DOROTHEA DIA worked her entire adult tile tor relorrn oi the existing penal and mental institutions In the mrd- l8ti0's, The larsl stale hospital rn the nalron at Trenton, New lersey was a direct result ol her ellorts The New Dolossusl' a sonnet composed by EMMA LAZ- ARUS rn IBB3 rs rnscrrbed on a bronze tablet at the base ol the Statue ol Liberty, She organized relrel lor lews and helped tugrluves lrom the C1ar's ghetlos to establish homes rn America. p t The creator ol the Cherokee alphabet, SIQUOVAH, was an artist. writer and sllversmtth. He used asrmple 1821 English primer to compose the characters, The lamous redwood trees ol the Paciluc coast hear his name. AMEIJA liNKS BLOUMER, best known tor a mode ot dress she adopted during her campaign tor equal rrghts lor women Though rrdrculed untrl she gave up the cos- tume, the term hloomer came to symbolize womans ind lor rndrvidual lreedom. HORACE GHEELEYS admonrlron to Go West young man was a rallying cry ol the ornneers ot America He was lounder and editor nl the New York Trrhune, He was best known lor hrs phrlosophy ot socral relorm and hrs unsuccessful had tor the Presidency in t87Z. IDSEPH FULIYZER was the lrrst lournattsl to reach a tru- ly massive audience. Hrs New York World newspaper was the symbol ol yellow ynurnallsm wrlh rts sensatronal- rsm aimed at the common man.