Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by a Scottish Physician, Alexander Fleming. Before this time people new little about germs and bacteria, they would never wash out their wounds or use what we consider proper cleanliness. But, Fleming noticed the connection between a dirty wound and it later becoming infected. So, he started doing some work of his own. He placed bacteria and a substance from which it could grow off of into a petri dish and covered it. He accidentally left the lid off of one of the dishes and discovered some unusual fungus growing in it. Fleming observed that where this fungus grew the bacteria had ceased to exist. He then correctly reasoned that this fungus must kill the bacteria and he identified it as Penicillin.

Penicillin did have more of an impact on the economy. People lived long and the population grew rapidly. Along with the influx of people came the economy. This also helped industries that employed a large number of people. Now that people knew more about cleanliness and infections they were able to treat and prevent illnesses and work longer.

Penicillin is not something that you would necessarily connect with having an impact on Technology. But, it had such a positive effect on society that the benefits eventually trickled down to the technological world. People now lived longer, healthier lives. This means that maybe the guy who invented computers lived merely because after getting a bad infection he took penicillin. Therefore we would not necessarily have computers if it weren¡¦t for the discovery of this natural antibiotic.

gh Fleming's discovery of penicillin was exciting he could not find a way to make it useful to the public and he quit doing research. Then Howard Florey comes along and starts doing some testing with it. Finally in 1940 he had found a way to make the drug useful for humans and just in time for World War 2. Florey's work with penicillin ended up saving millions of lives and earning him the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945. Producing enough Penicillin was stil

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