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The sewing machine was invented by a French tailor named Barthélemy Thimonnier. His goal to make the use of needle and thread to sew fabrics together go much quicker.
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Ellen Richards graduated from MIT in 1870, after being accepted as a "special student." This meant people did not take her seriously as woman in the science profession. She took this degree and made a name for herself by proving science can improve health and beginning the school lunch program in 1894. -
Atwater was named the "Father of Nutrition." He studied metabolism and starting in 1892 he invented the first calorimeter that could measure energy provided to the body from food. -
Land Grant Universities were funded by the Federal Government to give every state access to a university for technology, agriculture, and science.
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The Morrill Land Grant College Act donated land so that every state could have colleges specifically for agriculture and home economics. President Lincoln believed homesteading and agriculture went hand in hand.
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Langworthy was a chemist and co-editor of the Journal of Home Economics. He studied chemical compositions of food because he understood the human diet was complex. -
Hunt graduated from Northwestern in 1888. She studied immigrant populations and wrote articles. She wrote "Cheese and its economical uses in diet," and "Preparing home-canned vegetables for the table." -
Founded in 1872, The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) was the second institution in Arkansas. This university was also known as Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College in 1927. -
Graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in home economics in 1909. Became the first president of ADA.
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The Rumford Kitchen was the kitchen that prepared all the foods for the Chicago World's Fair. Richards stated The Rumford Kitchen was to apply chemistry to cooking. -
The Lake Placid Conference was held in New York. This is when home economics was founded as a new educational subject.
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The AHEA was created in 1909 by Ellen Richards. Started to improve family life though economics education
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The Smith Lever Act created Cooperative Extension Servive. Federal funds were used to support agricultural and home economics education.
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The Smith-Lever Act established a national Cooperative Extension Service. It allowed the government to provide funds for agricultural programs. -
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Academy's first president, Lulu G. Graves. The purpose of this academy was to focus on improving nutrition during World War I.
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The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 established Family and Consumer Sciences as Vocational Education. This Act was adopted so that federal grant money could be used to support vocational programs. Agri and home economic programs would prepare people for daily challenges. -
Hammond graduated from Cornell in 1926 at the age of twenty-four. She studied home economics for three years. -
The Vocational Education Act 1963 replaced the Smith-Hughes Act to focus specifically on providing financial support to vocational programs. This change removed government impact. -
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The Vocational Amendment reenforced the Act of 1963. Funds could now be spent on a person of any age looking to be educated in a vocational trade. -
The Vocational Amendment 1976 eliminated gender discrimination. The purpose of the act was to provide resources to overcome sex bias and provide funds for single head of households. -
The National Coalition for Black Development in Family and Consumer Sciences was founded in 1980. Their mission is to strengthen the African American presence in FACS.
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Signed by President Reegan, the Carl Perkins Act was to increase the quality in education. It was made so vocational education was allowed for any person trying to secure employment. -
The American Home Economics Association, or AHEA changed its name to Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. This changed was voted on so that the subject could be more open and not only associated with females. -
Michelle Obama started a movement to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in school lunches. The bill for Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 made lunches strive for less salt and appropriate calorie portions.