Designing for the Life Span Segment 2
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Transition and Change in America's Way of Life and Work.
America involved in World War I 1917 - 1918 & WWII 1941 - 1945.
Consequent growth in American industrial capacity with each war with industrial production Remaining unscathed during each conflagration.
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World War I has been referred to as the "Great War." World War II has had the "Good War" bestowed upon its historical significance. It began with upgrades to older technologies and ended with an atomic bomb exploding over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan - ushering in the Atomic age - as it was briefly called. Electronic surveillance and detection technologies made their debut, such as radar and sonar. Human factors also became important as an issue in the control and operation of complex war machinery. Anthropometric information was collected on army - mostly male - populations that became the content of Henry Dreyfuss' "Measure of Man." 400,000 Americans lost their lives, but the American homeland and industry survived both wars unscathed... giving American industry an immense advantage in world markets by 1945.
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