Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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DRILL PRESS PHONUGRA PH 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 survivw 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 tcalled the nation's most valuable citie zenl visualized machines that would light the country and open up communication with those in the far core 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 200 years the American mind has been unleashed to take whatever paths necessary to fule Fill the needst 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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THEY MADE THEIR MARK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankiuul Quaker cuneirnaket. some- iime teacher, preacher and grocer wrote the maxi blil' Iiani pamphlet ni iha American Revuiuiinn. His holds In Common Sense ieilecled tongings and asniraiions ihai have mnained pan oi American culiure iothis dayi Cruel Juslice JOHN MIRSHALL established lundamenlal mincipls ni American cunsliluliunal law. He is nuied for his precedenial declaraiion oi a CUIIgrBsinnal act as uncanstituiional. He served illmugh five admxnlsila- hulls. imm lKDi-IESEL ABRAHMI LINCCILN :pulorrnzad lhe American dream oi a humble young man ascending io Ihe hizhai oihte ni Ihe land. Ha was superbly skilled at anaiyma complex i5' sues and lianslalmg thlm inln meaningiul wards iur lhe pu hhc. He was devoied in the nmarvalian of the Uninn. DINIEL WEBSTER chose law as a career and went on In became weIl-hnown in lhe courts and in politics. He was iwice Secretary ui Siaie with an eye always 10 lhe Prai- dency which eluded him. DORDIHEI DIX honed nei enur: adult life for refoim oi ih: exisiing penal and menial inslilulions in ihe midV 18003.1heiirststaie hospital in In: nahon at Trenton, Nawiersey was a direct resuilal' hei eHnrts. Ham a slave in Matyland. FREDERICK DOUGLASS iaughl himseli to md and wriie secreuy and,aI 21. Escauad to freedom. He was an ardent abuliiinmsi camuaigning succmiully ior Nam suiiiagc and civil rights. The New Colossus, a sonnei commscd by EMMA uz. anus in 1833 is insclihed on a bronze tablet alihe base oi the Sialue nl Laherlyi Sh: nigamzed Ieiiei ior Jaws aha helpzd iugilivs irom ihe Cmi's ghetins iu niabhsh hnma In America. The creaiur n! the Cherokee alphabet SEQUOYAH. was an anisi. write! and siiveismiih. He used asimple IEZI English nnmer in compose Ihe characlers. The iamnus redwood ires oi lha Faciii: :uasl bani his name. AHElIA JENKS BLOWER, ml known lot a mud: oi dies: she adopted during Mr campaign ion equal riahis ini wumen. Though ridiculed unlil she gave up in: cash Iume, lhe leim bloomei came to symbolize women's hid in! individual Ireedom. HAIIIEI BEECHER STONE moi: Uncl: Tom's Cabin in an aim in make the whole nalinn reaiize lha inhuman:- ty oislaveiy. Her hank suited in one of the mast annu- lar and :un1roulsiai plays on His Ameiican stage, The Civil War was kindled hy this work HORACE EREELEY'S admonition to Ga Wes! young man was a rallying cry oi the pioneers oi AmericaV He was launder and editor ni iha Hm Vurk Inhune. He was hes! known for his philosophy ni social icinim and his unsuccessiul bid lnr the Piaidency in 1872. iOSEFH rumm was Iha 1irsl journalisl in reach 3 im- ly massive audienca His New York lurid nuispzner ms lh: symbol ni ycllow iournalism with its sansatiunal- ism aimed at line common man.