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Year |
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| 1 | 1888 | - John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
- Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
- Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
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| 2 | 1889 | - Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
- Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
- Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
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| 3 | 1891 | - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 4 | 1892 | - Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
- Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
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| 5 | 1893 | - American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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| 6 | 1895 | - Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
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| 7 | 1896 | - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 8 | 1897 | - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 9 | 1898 | - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 10 | 1899 | - I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
- J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
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| 11 | 1900 | - Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
- The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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| 12 | 1901 | - Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
- Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
- King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
- Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
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| 13 | 1902 | - French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
- The birth of the Teddy Bear.
- The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
- Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
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| 14 | 1903 | - Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
- Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
- Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
- The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
- William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
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| 15 | 1904 | - Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
- Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
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| 16 | 1905 | - Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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| 17 | 1906 | - William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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| 18 | 1907 | - Austin Powder Co building explodes at its site at the Five Mile Lock on the Cuyahoga River. That location is presently under the Harvard-Denison Bridge.
- Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
- The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
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| 19 | 1908 | - Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
- Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
- J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
- Model T automobile first sold.
- The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
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| 20 | 1909 | - Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
- William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
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| 21 | 1910 | - George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
- Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
- Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
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| 22 | 1911 | - Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
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| 23 | 1912 | - Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
- Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
- The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
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| 24 | 1913 | - Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
- Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
- The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
- The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
- Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
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| 25 | 1914 | - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
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| 26 | 1915 | - Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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