In this week in history I learned about some really cool stuff like the morphine, jacquard loom, inventions and worldview, inventions and patterns.
Friendrick Serturner invented morphine from opium in 1804 after spending years of learning and practicing chemistry. Morphine is the most potent painkiller. Morphine comes from purifying opium. Companies were producing the drug regularly by the 1820s. Morphine is very addictive, and replaced opium in the civil war.
The rich nobilitys has always preferred to wear fancy clothes with intricate woven designs. They used cams to make the pipes sing. Bouchon applied the cam patterns to the loom in 1725. Vaucanson improved the design by adding a cylinder. Jacquard loom automatically produces complex woven patterns. Programmable cards create the thread patterns. The loom reduced labor costs and made expensive clothes cheaper.
Most cultures have always believed in a cyclical view of time and history except those based on the bible. Inventions have helped so many cultures. The world view has 5 parts: God, man, ethics, judgment, and time. Inventions have made huge impacts on the world and made so many more things possible. Inventions have also made things more efficient and life easier.
A lot of inventions were made after the inventor noticed something that seemed odd. John Napier developed a critical mental image. Vesalius taught human anatomy differently than all other professors. Dr.Mary Schweitzer discovered blood vessels in fossilized dinosaur bones, all the other scientists simply assumed that was impossible. The worldview prevented them from making this major discovery, sne discovered what others said couldn’t be possible.
That is what I learned in my last week of history. It was really cool.