Anyone who is unfamiliar with Richard Overton will not know he is currently the oldest veteran solider to still be alive. He is 107 years young and lives in Texas. In 2013 he visited the nation's capital, Washington, D. C. For the first time. As a way of paying some respect to him, the following contains four things that have happened during his lifetime that have been important for man's development.
The diet of the average American has undertaken a massive change during Overton's lifetime. The increased popularity of television meant that mealtimes for the average American family needed to take this into account. Meals needed to be convenient and easy to prepare. To this end, that was why the TV dinner, a massively popular all in one meal, was invented.
They didn't start of as being particularly popular. Created in the forties, they didn't really take off with the public until the 1950s. They were modeled on the food served by airlines on planes, which usually came in a plastic tray and often contained meat, vegetables and a starch. The airlines were able to freeze these meals and take them out for passengers. When they hit the market, the TV dinner was processed at factories and distributed to local stores. With the advent of the microwave customers could cook them from frozen. Critics suggested that they made the focus of meals more about the TV than about being with family, but sales of $4billion a year mean they are as popular as ever.
The mobile phone, commonly called the cell phone in the United States, is one of the most important inventions. In the 1980s came the world's first hand-held phone for commercial purposes, meaning it was aimed at customers. It was the DynaTAC manufactured by Motorola and it weighed in at 28 ounces, had a battery life of about 30 to 60 minutes, would take approximately 10 hours to charge and was largely stored in the briefcases of businessmen.
These days the modern cell phones are lighter and more affordable, as back in the eighties the DynaTAC would have set the buyer back around $4,000. Phones can now fit in pockets and are often carried around in the palm of the hand because they are so tiny.
The way in which we store our food has undergone fundamental changes in the last hundred years. Refrigeration, though around for hundreds of years and constantly refined, wasn't something that had been transferred to the home arena until the 1920s. It has totally changed the way people eat all over the planet.
No list of influential things would be complete without an honorable mention to the Internet. Communication has been transformed and the world has seemingly become a very small place. The way in which business is conducted has changed and so has the way we get our information. It is considered by some to be the greatest change to our society of all time.
So the eyes of Richard Overton have seen many changes throughout society over the past 100 years. Not only in the way we communicate but in the way we eat, live our lives, and even in the way we conduct warfare. Overton has attributed his longevity to living a relatively stress-free lifestyle and staying active, so perhaps this is a blueprint to a long life.
The diet of the average American has undertaken a massive change during Overton's lifetime. The increased popularity of television meant that mealtimes for the average American family needed to take this into account. Meals needed to be convenient and easy to prepare. To this end, that was why the TV dinner, a massively popular all in one meal, was invented.
They didn't start of as being particularly popular. Created in the forties, they didn't really take off with the public until the 1950s. They were modeled on the food served by airlines on planes, which usually came in a plastic tray and often contained meat, vegetables and a starch. The airlines were able to freeze these meals and take them out for passengers. When they hit the market, the TV dinner was processed at factories and distributed to local stores. With the advent of the microwave customers could cook them from frozen. Critics suggested that they made the focus of meals more about the TV than about being with family, but sales of $4billion a year mean they are as popular as ever.
The mobile phone, commonly called the cell phone in the United States, is one of the most important inventions. In the 1980s came the world's first hand-held phone for commercial purposes, meaning it was aimed at customers. It was the DynaTAC manufactured by Motorola and it weighed in at 28 ounces, had a battery life of about 30 to 60 minutes, would take approximately 10 hours to charge and was largely stored in the briefcases of businessmen.
These days the modern cell phones are lighter and more affordable, as back in the eighties the DynaTAC would have set the buyer back around $4,000. Phones can now fit in pockets and are often carried around in the palm of the hand because they are so tiny.
The way in which we store our food has undergone fundamental changes in the last hundred years. Refrigeration, though around for hundreds of years and constantly refined, wasn't something that had been transferred to the home arena until the 1920s. It has totally changed the way people eat all over the planet.
No list of influential things would be complete without an honorable mention to the Internet. Communication has been transformed and the world has seemingly become a very small place. The way in which business is conducted has changed and so has the way we get our information. It is considered by some to be the greatest change to our society of all time.
So the eyes of Richard Overton have seen many changes throughout society over the past 100 years. Not only in the way we communicate but in the way we eat, live our lives, and even in the way we conduct warfare. Overton has attributed his longevity to living a relatively stress-free lifestyle and staying active, so perhaps this is a blueprint to a long life.
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