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Year |
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1 | 1928 | - Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
- Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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2 | 1929 | - American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
- Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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3 | 1930 | - Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
- Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
- The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
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4 | 1931 | - Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
- Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
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5 | 1932 | - Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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6 | 1933 | - Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
- Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- Stereo records invented.
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7 | 1934 | - Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
- Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
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8 | 1935 | - The first canned beer made.
- Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
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