WHAT DID THE AMERICAN FUTURE SEE IN 1900

Ladies Home magazine in 1900 made some interesting predictions about the future of the United States for the next hundred years.

1. The population of the United States will be at least 350 million people, and the maximum number will be 500 million people.
   After the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal, Nicaragua will want to become a state of America. Also later in the United States will enter Mexico, as well as all the other Central American countries.

2. The growth of the average American will also increase by 1-2 inches (by the way, in fact, it has increased by three). Such a dynamic increase in growth could be achieved thanks to an improvement in the general health of the population. This improvement is particularly associated with good nutrition, the development of medicine, regular exercise, and sanitary and hygienic measures. As for the life expectancy of an American, it will reach 50 years. Now people will live more outside the city, but there will be no apartments in the city itself. The city will only jobs.

3. People will play sports since childhood. Sports themselves in any school will become mandatory. People who do not support such a lifestyle will be considered as nothing more than outcasts.

4. There will be no cars on the streets of large cities. Machines will now move either underground or several tiers above the ground. In larger cities will be everywhere subway. Buses will be electric in the future. And in the cities there will be a complete silence, no loud sounds of technology.

1. The average speed of the train will be about 200 kilometers per hour, and in addition to them there will be also superhigh-speeds of 240 km / h. From San Francisco to New York will be possible to get a day. The shape of the locomotive will be streamlined, in the form of cigars. They will be on an electric burden.

2. Car prices will be lower than on a horse today. The car's engine will weigh half a kilo. In winter, children will not just ride in a sled, but in a car sled.

3. Aircraft can be seen in the sky, but they still will not be widely spread among the passenger traffic due to the greater danger and congestion. Their main function will be the military branch.

4. Forts and aircraft will be at war and on wheels. Huge guns will be created that will be able to shoot for a great distance - 40 km or even more, and the power of the shells will be so strong that it will be able to level a small city with the ground. The direction of the projectile itself is corrected by special telescopes located at high altitude. There will be air fleets of bomb-proof ships that can hide behind artificially created clouds. As such, the infantry will not be. Large tanks can reach the speed of an average train. The sea will be conquered by submarines with a large supply of autonomous course.

1. Photos will be possible to transfer to any distance. For example, if there is a war in China, you can see photos from the scene in an hour in an hour.

2. Insects that are harmful, will no longer be. Mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches completely exterminated.

3. Beans and peas will be the size of a good beet. A whole family can eat one melon, because many vegetables will become much larger. Many fruits can be bought without pits.

4. On Earth there will be all the colors of a flower like a rose - from black to green, and its size will be approximately from a head of cabbage. The flower can be grown absolutely any, regardless of climate and with any smell.

5. Sellers of counterfeit and stale goods will be arrested, and products will no longer simply lie on the street. They will be in refrigerators that maintain not only the right temperature, but also humidity.

The English alphabet will no longer have the letters X, Q and C. They simply will no longer be necessary. Newspapers will become the electronic version, and English itself will become the most popular language on the planet. The second place will be taken by Russian.

1. The university will be able to study both women and men. Students who will be poor will be given clothes, food, books, glasses and housing.

1. Phones will be without wires, and the connection will be automatic. You can talk all over the world.

2. Opera can be listened to at home thanks to a special phone. Musical instruments will be electronic in the future, and it will be possible to play by simply pressing a button.

3. In the farm, hydropower will replace coal. To cool or heat the house will create a special system. The energy of the ocean waves can be converted into electrical energy.

Will create whole shops for the production of ready-made food. The food can be cooked in electric ovens, and you can wash the dishes after using it thanks to a special tool that can destroy germs.

1. For farmers in the future will not matter whether winter or summer is outside the window. For growing products all this can be done artificially, as well as changing the time of day. The day may become night and vice versa. When it is cold, there will be special wires under the soil that will warm it.

Oranges can be grown even in Finland. And any fruit can be stored all year round.

1. Medicines will be taken more inside, and organs will become transparent for doctors. Thanks to special devices, people will be able to look at their organs in a photo, which will help them recover from a disease faster. All this will be possible thanks to invisible rays.
   
2. There will be almost no horses left. They will contain only rich people for hunting or racing.