Sir James Dewar Invents The Dewar Flask Or Vacuum Flask
Rudolf Diesel Invents The Diesel ~ Fueled Internal Combustion Engine
Homestead Massacre
Populist Party Founded
4
1893
American ~ W L Judson Invents The Zipper
Edward Goodrich Acheson Invents Carborundum
Panic Of 1893
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets
Chicago World's Fair
4 Mar 1893: President ~ Grover Cleveland ~ He Was The First President To Have A Child Born In The White House The Baby Ruth Candy Bar Was Named After Her
5
1894
President ~ Grover Cleveland
Pullman Strike
6
1895
President ~ Grover Cleveland
Lumiere Brothers Using Their Cinematographe Are The First To Present A Projected Motion Picture To An Audience Of More That One Person
Lumiere Brothers Invent A Portable Motion ~ Picture Camera ~ Film Processing Unit And Projector Called The Cinematographe
Booker T Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech
7
1896
President ~ Grover Cleveland
American ~ H O'sullivan Invents The Rubber Heel
Plessy V Ferguson
8
1897
4 Mar 1897: President ~ William Mckinley
9
1898
President ~ William Mckinley
Rudolf Diesel Receives Patent #608 ~ 845 For An "Internal Combustion Engine" The Diesel Engine
Edwin Prescott Patents The Roller Coaster
Spanish ~ American War
10
1899
President ~ William Mckinley
J S Thurman Patents The Motor ~ Driven Vacuum Cleaner
I R Johnson Patents The Bicycle Frame
Open Door Notes 1899 ~ 1900
Thorstein Veblen's The Theory Of The Leisure Class
11
1900
President ~ William Mckinley
The Zeppelin Invented By Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
Charles Seeberger Redesigned Jesse Reno's Escalator And Invented The Modern Escalator
12
1901
King Camp Gillette Invents The Double ~ Edged Safety Razor
The First Radio Receiver ~ Successfully Received A Radio Transmission
Hubert Booth Invents A Compact And Modern Vacuum Cleaner
14 Sep 1901: President ~ William Mckinley Dies In Buffalo ~ Ny
14 Sep 1901: Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt ~ Vice President Under William Mckinley ~ Sworn In As President Upon Death Of Mckinley
13
1902
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ Teddy Bears Are Named After Him
Willis Carrier Invents The Air Conditioner
French Physicist George Claude Invents Neon Light
The Lie Detector Or Polygraph Machine Is Invented By James Mackenzie
The Birth Of The Teddy Bear
14
1903
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Binney And Harold Smith Co ~ Invent Crayons
Bottle ~ Making Machinery Invented By Michael J Owens
The Wright Brothers Invent The First Gas Motored And Manned Airplane
Mary Anderson Invents Windshield Wipers
William Coolidge Invents Ductile Tungsten Used In Lightbulbs
15
1904
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Teabags Invented By Thomas Suillivan
Benjamin Holt Invents A Tractor
John A Fleming Invents A Vacuum Diode Or Fleming Valve
16
1905
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Einstein Published The Theory Of Relativity And Made Famous The Equation ~ E = Mc2
Mary Anderson Receives A Patent For Windshield Wipers
17
1906
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ He Was The First American To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
William Kellogg Invents Cornflakes
Lewis Nixon Invents The First Sonar Like Device
Lee Deforest Invents Electronic Amplifying Tube (Triode)
18
1907
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Leo Baekeland Invents The First Synthetic Plastic Called Bakelite
Color Photography Invented By Auguste And Louis Lumiere
The Very First Piloted Helicopter Was Invented By Paul Cornu
19
1908
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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
20
1909
Instant Coffee Invented By G Washington
4 Mar 1909: President ~ William Taft
21
1910
President ~ William Taft
Thomas Edison Demonstrated The First Talking Motion Picture
Georges Claude Displayed The First Neon Lamp To The Public On December 11 ~ 1910 ~ In Paris
22
1911
President ~ William Taft
Charles Franklin Kettering Invents The First Automobile Electrical Ignition System
23
1912
President ~ William Taft
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
24
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 Invents The Modern Zipper
4 Mar 1913: President ~ Woodrow Wilson ~ He Was The Only President To Date With A Ph D
25
1914
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Garrett A Morgan Invents The Morgan Gas Mask
26
1915
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Eugene Sullivan And William Taylor Co ~ Invented Pyrex In New York City
27
1916
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Radios Tuners Invented ~ That Received Different Stations
Stainless Steel Invented By Henry Brearly
28
1917
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Gideon Sundback Patented The Modern Zipper (Not The First Zipper)
29
1918
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
The Superheterodyne Radio Circuit Invented By Edwin Howard Armstrong
Charles Jung Invented Fortune Cookies
30
1919
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
The Pop ~ Up Toaster Invented By Charles Strite
Short ~ Wave Radio Invented
The Flip ~ Flop Circuit Invented
The Arc Welder Invented
31
1920
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
The Tommy Gun Patented By John T Thompson
The Band ~ Aid (Pronounced 'Ban ~ 'Dade) Invented By Earle Dickson
32
1921
President ~ Warren Harding
Artificial Life Begins ~ ~ The First Robot Built
John Larson Invented The Lie Detector
4 Mar 1921: President ~ Warren Harding
33
1922
Insulin Invented By Sir Frederick Grant Banting
The First 3 ~ D Movie (Spectacles With One Red And One Green Lens) Is Released
34
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 ~ Winding Watch
Clarence Birdseye Invents Frozen Food
2 Aug 1923: President ~ Warren Harding Dies Of An Embolism In San Francisco He Had Taken Ill On 31 Jul 1921
3 Aug 1923: Calvin Coolidge ~ Vice President Under Warren Harding ~ Sworn In As President The Day After Harding Dies
35
1924
President ~ Calvin Coolidge
The Dynamic Loudspeaker Invented By Rice And Kellogg
Notebooks With Spiral Bindings Invented
36
1925
President ~ Calvin Coolidge
The Mechanical Television A Precursor To The Modern Television ~ Invented By John Logie Baird
37
1926
President ~ Calvin Coolidge
Robert H Goddard Invents Liquid ~ Fueled Rockets
38
1927
President ~ Calvin Coolidge
Eduard Haas Iii Invents Pez Candy
Jwa Morrison Invents The First Quartz Crystal Watch
Philo Taylor Farnsworth Invents A Complete Electronic Tv System
Technicolor Invented
Erik Rotheim Patents An Aerosol Can
Warren Marrison Developed The First Quartz Clock
Philip Drinker Invents The Iron Lung
39
1928
President ~ Calvin Coolidge
Scottish Biologist Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
Bubble Gum Invented By Walter E Diemer
Jacob Schick Patented The Electric Shaver
40
1929
American ~ Paul Galvin Invents The Car Radio
Yo ~ Yo Re ~ Invented As An American Fad
4 Mar 1929: President ~ Herbert Hoover ~ He Was The First President To Have A Telephone On His Desk R B Hayes Was The First One To Have A Telephone Installed
41
1930
President ~ Herbert Hoover
Scotch Tape Patented By 3M Engineer ~ Richard G Drew
The Frozen Food Process Patented By Clarence Birdseye
Wallace Carothers And Dupont Labs Invents Neoprene
The "Differential Analyzer" ~ Or Analog Computer Invented By Vannevar Bush At Mit In Boston
Frank Whittle And Dr Hans Von Ohain Both Invent A Jet Engine
42
1931
President ~ Herbert Hoover
Harold Edgerton Invented Stop ~ Action Photography
Germans Max Knott And Ernst Ruska Co ~ Invent The Electron Microscope
43
1932
President ~ Herbert Hoover
Polaroid Photography Invented By Edwin Herbert Land
The Zoom Lens And The Light Meter Invented
Carl C Magee Invents The First Parking Meter
Karl Jansky Invents The Radio Telescope
44
1933
Frequency Modulation (Fm Radio) Invented By Edwin Howard Armstrong
Stereo Records Invented
Richard M Hollingshead Builds A Prototype Drive ~ In Movie Theater In His Driveway
4 Mar 1933: President ~ Franklin Roosevelt ~ Distantly Related To 12 Previous Presidents
45
1934
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
Englishmen ~ Percy Shaw Invents Cat Eyes Or Roads Reflectors
Charles Darrow Claims He Invented The Game Monopoly
Joseph Begun Invents The First Tape Recorder For Broadcasting ~ First Magnetic Recording
Roy J Plunkett Invented Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers Or Teflon
Nescafe Or Freeze ~ Dried Coffee Invented
The First Working Turboprop Engine
50
1939
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
Igor Sikorsky Invents The First Successful Helicopter
The Electron Microscope Invented
51
1940
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
Dr William Reich Invents The Orgone Accumulator
Peter Goldmark Invents Modern Color Television System
Karl Pabst Invents The Jeep
52
1941
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
Konrad Zuse's Z3 ~ The First Computer Controlled By Software
Aerosol Spray Cans Invented By American Inventors ~ Lyle David Goodloe And W N Sullivan
Enrico Fermi Invents The Neutronic Reactor
7 Dec 1941: Japanese Attack Peral Harbor
53
1942
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
John Atanasoff And Clifford Berry Built The First Electronic Digital Computer
Max Mueller Designs A Turboprop Engine
54
1943
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
Synthetic Rubber Invented
Richard James Invents The Slinky
James Wright Invent Silly Putty
Swiss Chemist ~ Albert Hofmann Discovered The Hallucinogenic Properties Of Lsd
Emile Gagnan And Jacques Cousteau Invent The Aqualung
55
1944
President ~ Franklin Roosevelt
The Kidney Dialysis Machine Invented By Willem Kolff
Synthetic Cortisone Invented By Percy Lavon Julian
56
1945
Vannevar Bush Proposes Hypertext
The Atomic Bomb Invented
12 Apr 1945: President ~ Harry Truman
57
1946
President ~ Harry Truman
The Microwave Oven Invented By Percy Spencer
58
1947
President ~ Harry Truman
British/Hungarian Scientist ~ Dennis Gabor ~ Developed The Theory Of Holography
Mobile Phones First Invented
Bardeen ~ Brattain ~ And Shockley Invent The Transistor
Earl Silas Tupper Patented The Tupperware Seal
59
1948
President ~ Harry Truman
The Frisbee® Invented By Walter Frederick Morrison And Warren Franscioni
Velcro ® Invented By George De Mestral
Robert Hope ~ Jones Invented The Wurlitzer Jukebox
60
1949
President ~ Harry Truman
Cake Mix Invented
61
1950
President ~ Harry Truman
The First Credit Card (Diners) Invented By Ralph Schneider
62
1951
President ~ Harry Truman
Super Glue Invented
Power Steering Invented By Francis W Davis
Charles Ginsburg Invented The First Videotape Recorder (Vtr)
63
1952
President ~ Harry Truman
Mr Potato Head Patented
The First Patent For Bar Code (Us Patent #2 ~ 612 ~ 994) Issued To Inventors Joseph Woodland And Bernard Silver
The First Diet Soft Drink Sold
Edward Teller And Team Build The Hydrogen Bomb
Alan Sullivan Proctor was born kicking and screaming on a hot July afternoon
19 Jul 1952: Washington D.C. "buzzed" by several UFOs tracked on multiple radars. Jets scrambled on several occasions and objects took evasive action only to return after the jets left the area
25 Jul 1952: Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
26 Jul 1952: Military coup in Egypt ousts King Farouk.
27 Aug 1952: Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg - Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
64
1953
Radial Tires Invented
The First Musical Synthesizer Invented By Rca
David Warren Invented The Black Box ~ Flight Recorder
Transistor Radio Invented By Texas Instruments
20 Jan 1953: President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
65
1954
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
Oral Contraceptives Invented
The First Nonstick Pan Produced
The Solar Cell Invented By Chaplin ~ Fuller And Pearson
Ray Kroc Started Mcdonalds
66
1955
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
Tetracycline Invented
Optic Fiber Invented
67
1956
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
The First Computer Hard Disk Used
The Hovercraft Invented By Christopher Cockerell
Bette Nesmith Graham Invented "Mistake Out ~ " Later Renamed Liquid Paper ~ To Paint Over Mistakes Made With A Typewriter
68
1957
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
Fortran (Computer Language) Invented
69
1958
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
The Modem Invented
Gordon Gould Invents The Laser
The Hula Hoop Invented By Richard Knerr And Arthur "Spud" Melin
The Integrated Circuit Invented By Jack Kilby And Robert Noyce
70
1959
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
The Internal Pacemaker Invented By Wilson Greatbatch
Barbie Doll Invented
Jack Kilby And Robert Noyce Both Invent The Microchip
71
1960
President ~ Dwight Eisenhower
The Halogen Lamp Invented
72
1961
Valium Invented
The Nondairy Creamer Invented
20 Jan 1961: President ~ John F Kennedy ~ Youngest President To Take Office
73
1962
President ~ John F Kennedy
The Audio Cassette Invented
The Fiber ~ Tip Pen Invented By Yukio Horie
Spacewar ~ The First Computer Video Game Invented
Dow Corp Invents Silicone Breast Implants
74
1963
The First Videodisc Invented
22 Nov 1963: President ~ John F Kennedy Assassinated By Lee Harvey Oswald In Dallas ~ Texas
22 Nov 1963: Lyndon B Johnson ~ Vice President Under John F Kennedy ~ Sworn In As President Aboard Air Force One Upon Death Of Kennedy
75
1964
President ~ Lyndon B Johnson
Acrylic Paint Invented
Permanent ~ Press Fabric Invented
Basic (An Early Computer Language) Is Invented By John George Kemeny And Tom Kurtz
76
1965
President ~ Lyndon B Johnson
Astroturf Invented
Soft Contact Lenses Invented
Nutrasweet Invented
The Compact Disk Invented By James Russell
Kevlar Invented By Stephanie Louise Kwolek
77
1966
President ~ Lyndon B Johnson
Electronic Fuel Injection For Cars Invented
78
1967
President ~ Lyndon B Johnson
The First Handheld Calculator Invented
79
1968
President ~ Lyndon B Johnson
The Computer Mouse Invented By Douglas Engelbart
The First Computer With Integrated Circuits Made
Robert Dennard Invented Ram (Random Access Memory)
80
1969
The Arpanet (First Internet) Invented
The Artificial Heart Invented
The Atm Invented
The Bar ~ Code Scanner Is Invented
20 Jan 1969: President ~ Richard M Nixon
81
1970
President ~ Richard M Nixon
The Daisy ~ Wheel Printer Invented
The Floppy Disk Invented By Alan Shugart
82
1971
President ~ Richard M Nixon
The Dot ~ Matrix Printer Invented
The Food Processor Invented
The Liquid ~ Crystal Display (Lcd) Invented By James Fergason
The Microprocessor Invented By Faggin ~ Hoff And Mazor
Vcr Or Videocassette Recorder Invented
83
1972
President ~ Richard M Nixon
The Word Processor Invented
Pong (First Video Game) Invented By Nolan Bushnell
Hacky Sack® Invented By John Stalberger And Mike Marshall
84
1973
President ~ Richard M Nixon
Gene Splicing Invented
The Ethernet (Local Computer Network) Invented By Robert Metcalfe And Xerox
Bic Invents The Disposable Lighter
85
1974
The Post ~ It Note Invented By Arthur Fry
Giorgio Fischer ~ A Gynecologist From Rome ~ Italy ~ Invents Liposuction
9 Aug 1974: President ~ Gerald Ford
9 Aug 1974: President ~ Richard M Nixon First President To Resign From Office
86
1975
President ~ Gerald Ford
The Laser Printer Invented
The Push ~ Through Tab On A Drink Can Invented
87
1976
President ~ Gerald Ford
The Ink ~ Jet Printer Invented
88
1977
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Invented By Raymond V Damadian
20 Jan 1977: President ~ Jimmy Carter
89
1978
President ~ Jimmy Carter
Dan Bricklin And Bob Frankston Invented The Visicalc Spreadsheet
The Artificial Heart Jarvik ~ 7 Invented By Robert K Jarvik
90
1979
President ~ Jimmy Carter
Cellular Phones Invented
Cray Supercomputer Invented By Seymour Cray
Walkman Invented
Scott Olson Invents Roller Blades
91
1980
President ~ Jimmy Carter
The Hepatitis ~ B Vaccine Invented
92
1981
Ms ~ Dos Invented
The First Ibm ~ Pc Invented
The Scanning Tunneling Microscope Invented By Gerd Karl Binnig And Heinrich Rohrer
20 Jan 1981: President ~ Ronald Reagan ~ Oldest Person Elected President ~ He Was 73
93
1982
President ~ Ronald Reagan
Human Growth Hormone Genetically Engineered
94
1983
President ~ Ronald Reagan
The Apple Lisa Invented
Soft Bifocal Contact Lens Invented
First Cabbage Patch Kids Sold
Programmer Jaron Lanier First Coins The Term "Virtual Reality"
95
1984
President ~ Ronald Reagan
The Cd ~ Rom Invented
The Apple Macintosh Invented
96
1985
President ~ Ronald Reagan
Windows Program Invented By Microsoft
97
1986
President ~ Ronald Reagan
A High ~ Temperature Super ~ Conductor Invented By J Georg Bednorz And Karl A Muller
Synthetic Skin Invented By G Gregory Gallico ~ Iii
Fuji Introduced The Disposable Camera
98
1987
President ~ Ronald Reagan
The First 3 ~ D Video Game Invented
Disposable Contact Lenses Invented
99
1988
President ~ Ronald Reagan
Digital Cellular Phones Invented
The Ru ~ 486 (Abortion Pill) Invented
Doppler Radar Invented By Christian Andreas Doppler
Prozac® Invented At The Eli Lilly Company By Inventor Ray Fuller
The First Patent For A Genetically Engineered Animal Is Issued To Harvard University Researchers Philip Leder And Timothy Stewart
Ralph Alessio And Fredrik Olsen Received A Patent For The Indiglo ® Nightlight
100
1989
High ~ Definition Television Invented
20 Jan 1989: President ~ Ronald Reagan
101
1990
President ~ George H W Bush
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