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Year |
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1 | 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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2 | 1904 | - Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
- Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
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3 | 1905 | - Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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4 | 1906 | - William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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5 | 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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6 | 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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7 | 1909 | - Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
- William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
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8 | 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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9 | 1911 | - Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
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10 | 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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11 | 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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12 | 1914 | - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
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13 | 1915 | - Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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14 | 1916 | - Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
- Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
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15 | 1918 | - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
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16 | 1919 | - Short-wave radio invented.
- The arc welder invented.
- The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
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17 | 1920 | - The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
- The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
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18 | 1921 | - Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
- Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
- John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
- Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
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19 | 1922 | - Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
- The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
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20 | 1923 | - Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
- Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
- John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
- The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
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21 | 1924 | - Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
- The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
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22 | 1925 | - The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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23 | 1926 | - Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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24 | 1927 | - Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
- JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
- Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
- Technicolor invented.
- Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
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25 | 1928 | - Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
- Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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