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Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) is born
He is recognized for inventing the first range stove with temperature controls
First to label nutrition as a science
Rumford kitchen at 1893 Chicago World Fair named for him -
Catharine Beecher writes the Treatise on Domestic Economy
This text was considered to be the first textbook on family and consumer science by the department of education. -
Ellen S. Richard is born
Pioneered the early field of family and consumer science
Studied and served as faculty at MIT
Used home as laboratory where she began testing products -
W.O. Atwater is born
Known as the father of Nutrition
Invented the bomb calorimeter.
He received his PhD in chemistry at Yale -
Land Grant University
The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education. -
Martha Ressalaer is born
She served as President of AAFCS
Professor at Cornell University in New York
Attended the Lake Placid Conference in 1899
Developed cooperative extension programs at Cornell -
Clara Belle Williams
First African American to graduate from New Mexico State University
Wasn't permitted in classroom nor to walk at graduation
Her children all went on to become physicians -
Lake Placid Conference
Eleven leaders gathered in New York to begin the profession
Home economics was adopted as name for new field of study -
Smith Lever Act
created the Cooperative Extension Service including family and consumer science. -
Smith-Hughes act
Established FACS as part of Vocational (CTE) Education -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
Brought forward by congress to offer new vocational learning and job training for U.S. citizens to plant seeds fora better future. -
Carl Perkins Act
The act aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy.