2. Higher Provincialism California has long been a supporter of the arts. 1851 - San Francisco Art Union opened 1870’s Two art academies San Francisco Art Association California School of Design San Francisco Art Association circa 1880
3. Higher Provincialism Many famous authors wrote about early California adding to its mystique Bayard Taylor – El Dorado Frank Marryat – Mountains and Molehills Alonzo Delano – On the Trail to the California Gold Rush George Horatio Derby - Squibob “Dame Shirley” Hinton Rowan Helper – The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction John Rollin Ridge – Life and Adventures of JoaquínMurieta A series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855
4. Higher Provincialism Reformation Political Landscape Female Emancipation Golden Gate Kindergarten Association Jan Stanford - wife of Governor Stanford helped establish college for women Graft Lobbyist Abe Ruef finally arrested Only true change in political reform until 1910 Jan Stanford with husband Leland
5. O Brave New World California capitalizes on its scientific knowhow Early Pioneers Mainly from mining LestorPelton – Pelton turbine Geology & Geography Jospeh Le Conte John Muir – first President of the Sierra Club Oceanography George Davidson An example of the Pelton Wheel, which revolutionized hydralics
6. O Brave New World Aviation John Montgomery – First flight of a heavier than air glider – Aug 28, 1883 – Otay Mesa Glenn Curtis Allan and MalcomLougheed (changed to Lockheed) John Northrop Glenn Martin Donald Douglas T. Claude Ryan – Creator of Spirit of St Louis John Montgomery 1905 Tex Rankin (standing, left) and T. Claude Ryan, ca. 1937
7. O Brave New World Electronics (Silicon Valley) Vacuum tubes and semiconductors Lee de Forest – Father of radio? Philo T. Farnsworth – Television Frederick Terman Ernest Lawrence – cyclotron David Packard and William Hewlett J. Robert Oppenheimer Russell and Sigurd Varian Robert Noyce & Godone E. Moore (Intel) Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak (Apple) These pioneers, along with others led California to be a state of science. The audion tube patent by Lee De Forest in 1907 was basis of all electronics. Philo T. Farnsworth
8. Sources California – Kevin Starr http://janestanford.stanford.edu/values.html http://www.alex-haley.com/alex_haley_dame_shirley_and_the_gold_rush.htm http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelton_wheel_turbine_in_Barcelona.jpg http://www.dmairfield.org/Collections/Cooper%20Collection/index.html http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/montgomery.html http://www.telephoneteca.com/History.htm http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/a-short-history-of-television/
