Help us raise funds for a new film! In 2012, Columbus Landmarks Trustee Conrade C. Hinds authored a book entitled The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908 – Waterworks that Changed the World. It’s an interesting and exciting story and Columbus Landmarks asks for your support to bring it to life through film! Donate to this project on GCAC’s crowd-funding platform called Power2Give. The minimum donation on power2give.org is just $1. We have a little over two months to fund this project with a Power2Give goal of $8,500.
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What is The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908 Film Project?
The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908 tells the story of how Senator Marcus Hanna, a presidential hopeful, contracted typhoid from Columbus tap water and died soon after. Our city was embarrassed and rushed to action – the result being a water-treatment system that virtually eliminated the scourge of typhoid, cholera and many other waterborne diseases from the civilized world, saving millions of lives. It’s an interesting and exciting story and Columbus Landmarks asks for your support to bring it to life through film!
We seek funds to begin work on The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908, a 53-minute broadcast quality video documentary about America’s historic engineering contributions to water purification and watershed protection. Central to the story is a century old case study in Columbus, Ohio in 1908 about the elimination of waterborne disease by advanced water treatment methods. The final product will appeal to a national audience while being quite useful as a classroom teaching tool.
Five generations ago waterborne diseases like typhoid fever were fearsome and widespread. The same professions, both public and private, that mobilized to solve this problem are still at work one hundred years later. Columbus, Ohio, has been in the forefront of the movement to halt the spread of waterborne disease.
It is a story often overlooked as we often have come to take clean, safe drinking water for granted. But the price of success in this field – as in many others was quite high – in time, treasure and human lives. It is a story well worth retelling.
This work will be the foundation for developing a subsequent database of materials and events related to the 1908 Experiment.
