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Rumford Kitchen
Count von Rumford (Benjamin Thompson) invented the kitchen range, using fire to cook in the safest and most fuel-efficient way possible in restaurants. Fewer types of food started being made in restaurants, but the food was higher quality. -
Catharine Beecher
Catharine Beecher wrote A Treatise on Domestic Economy in 1841. She founded multiple colleges for women and was related to Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Morrill Act of 1862
This act gave property to the western United States to build universities. This made college possible for many more people to attend. -
Land Grant Universities
Land grant universities are colleges that are given funding by the government to teach agriculture and mechanics (A&M). These schools taught skills needed to be in the military. Some schools were already there, and some new schools were built to become land grant universities. -
University of Arkansas Land Grant
The University of Arkansas's flagship occurred in 1871. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the land grant college that was created in 1873. The system that includes the University of Arkansas land grant math and science school, community colleges, law schools, and more was established in 1890. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
Richards was the first woman allowed to attend MIT. In 1876, she opened a women's chemistry laboratory at MIT. Richards taught sanitary chemistry at MIT from 1884 to 1911. -
Mary Beaumont Welch
Welch created the first college-level home economics class that people could get credit for taking. She also wrote the first home economics cookbook, Mrs. Welch's Cookbook, in 1884. -
Carolyn Hunt
Hunt got her undergraduate degree from Northwestern in 1888. She studied multiple races and groups of people, learning about their diets and their living conditions. -
Margaret Murray Washington
In 1889, Washington became the Lady Principal and Director of the Department of Domestic Service at Tuskegee University. She was the third wife of Booker T. Washington and used family and consumer science as a way to help other women of color. -
Invention of the Metabolic Cart
The metabolic cart is a way to physically measure how many calories one burns during exercise in order to determine how many calories they need to maintain their weight. The cart does this by measuring how much oxygen one breathes in and comparing it to the amount of carbon dioxide one breathes out. -
W.O. Atwater
Atwater was one of the first people to combine the concepts of chemistry and nutrition. In 1896, he invented the Atwater-Rosa calorimeter, which could determine the caloric content of foods. -
Martha Rensselaer
Rensselaer taught at Cornell University and made cooperative extension programs there. She was at the Lake Placid conference in 1899 and was the president of AAFCS. -
Headquarters of Family and Consumer Science
Ellen S. Richards met with other women in Lake Placid, New York in 1909 and established the American Home Economics Association. AHEA's name was changed to the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. -
Smith Lever Act
The Smith Lever Act created a national-level service for cooperative extension to teach people about technological advances in agriculture that they would have otherwise not learned about. The act is still in use today serving the same purpose, teaching modern agricultural practices. -
Smith Hughes Act
The United States was given aid federally to teach trades and FACS. These classes were beneficial, but people had higher hopes for them than how they ended up happening. -
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Name Change
The Academy changed their name from the American Dietetics Association in 1917. A group of 58 individuals founded this organization. -
Lulu C. Graves
Lulu C. Graves was the first president of AND in 1917. She rationed food for soldiers during the first world war and was a dietitian at multiple hospitals. She planned diets for people who were ill and for people who were healthy and customized each diet accordingly. -
C.F. Langworthy
Langworthy edited the Journal of Home Economics in 1929. He also was a food chemist and studied chemical pathways in the body. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
Educational grants were provided at the state level in order to keep technical and vocational schools running. They also wanted to use this money to build more of these schools and create more programs for workplaces. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968
This amendment furthered the progress of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, but the individual was more focused on rather than the system overall. States must also make five-year plans and plans for their administrations under this amendment. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
This amendment was a follow-up to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963 and disallowed sexism, racism, and other types of unfair treatment. This amendment also gave money to single mothers, people wanting jobs different than what was common for their gender, and people wanting to work more hours. -
Carl Perkins Act
This act originated in 1984 to help CTE (career and technical education) improve, boosting the economy. It was updated in 1998, 2000, 2006, and 2018. -
UCA Name Change to FACS
The University of Central Arkansas changed the name of its FACS program from home economics to family and consumer science. This change happened in 1994.