CCF Impact of Penicillin Transforming Society & Shaping Modern Medicine Essay

With the rapidity of scientific advancement in the 1800’s in the fields of thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism, the large-scale implications of many discoveries were not completely understood or even examined. For this essay, pick a discovery/invention from the 19th century or earlier (no nuclear weapons or computers) and discuss how it has changed society in an unintended or unforeseen manner.