A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic middle school health textbook from 1929
“This is a remarkable age. It is an age of skyscrapers, submarines, airplanes, dirigibles, phonographs, safety razors, radios, electric lights, steam and hot-water heat, gas stoves, vacuum cleaners, and other wonderful inventions. Many diseases have been conquered, and life has been lengthened. Life has been made more comfortable and in most ways safer. Such progress has been made that today the ordinary American workman enjoys more comforts and opportunities that were denied kings and queens a ...
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