| I900 |
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The zeppelin
invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's
escalator and invented the modern escalator.
|
| 1901 |
|
| 1902 |
|
| 1903 |
|
| 1904 |
|
| 1905 |
|
| 1906 |
|
| 1907 |
|
| 1908 |
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The gyrocompass
invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
-
Cellophane
invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
-
Model
T first sold.
-
J W Geiger and W Müller invent
the geiger counter.
-
Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process
for making artificial nitrates.
|
| 1909 |
|
| 1910 |
|
| 1911 |
-
Charles Franklin Kettering invents the
first automobile electrical ignition
system.
|
| 1912 |
-
Motorized movie cameras invented,
replaced hand-cranked cameras.
-
The first tank patented by Australian
inventor De La Mole.
-
Clarence Crane created Life
Savers candy in 1912.
|
| 1913 |
-
The crossword
puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
-
The Merck Chemical Company patented,
what is now know as, ecstasy.
-
Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
-
Gideon Sundback invented the modern
zipper.
|
| 1914 |
-
Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan
gas
mask.
|
| 1915 |
-
Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented
Pyrex
in New York City.
|
| 1916 |
-
Radios
tuners invented, that received different stations.
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Stainless steel
invented by Henry Brearly.
|
| 1917 |
-
Gideon Sundback patented the modern
zipper
(not the first zipper).
|
| 1918 |
-
The superheterodyne
radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every
radio or television set uses this invention.
-
Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
|
| 1919 |
-
The pop-up
toaster invented by Charles Strite.
-
Short-wave radio invented.
-
The flip-flop circuit invented.
-
The arc
welder invented.
|
| 1920 |
-
The tommy
gun patented by John T Thompson.
-
The Band-Aid
(pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
|
| 1921 |
-
Artificial life begins -- the first
robot
built.
-
John Larson invented the lie
detector.
|
| 1922 |
-
Insulin
invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
-
The first 3-D movie (spectacles
with one red and one green lens) is released.
|
| 1923 |
-
Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic
signal.
-
The television or iconoscope
(cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
-
John Harwood invented the self-windingwatch
in 1923.
-
Clarence Birdseye invents frozen
food.
|
| 1924 |
|
| 1925 |
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