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George Maxson PALMER
 1884 - 1958

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   Year  Event(s)
1 1884 
  • James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
2 1885 
  • Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
3 1886 
  • John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
4 1887 
  • German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
5 1888 
  • John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
6 1889 
  • Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
  • Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
7 1891 
  • Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
8 1892 
  • Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
9 1893 
  • American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
10 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.
11 1896 
  • American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
12 1897 
  • William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
13 1898 
  • Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
14 1899 
  • J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
15 1900 
  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
16 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.
  • Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
  • Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
17 1902 
  • 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.
18 1903 
  • 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.
19 1904 
  • Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
20 1905 
  • Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
21 1906 
  • William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
22 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.
23 1908 
  • The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
  • Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
  • Model T automobile first sold.
  • J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
  • Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
24 1909 
  • William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
25 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.
  • Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
  • Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
26 1911 
  • Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
27 1912 
  • Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
28 1913 
  • Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
  • The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
  • Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
29 1914 
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
30 1915 
  • Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
31 1916 
  • Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
32 1918 
  • Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
33 1919 
  • The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • Short-wave radio invented.
  • The arc welder invented.
34 1920 
  • The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
35 1921 
  • Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
  • Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
  • Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
36 1922 
  • Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
37 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.
38 1924 
  • The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
39 1925 
  • The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
40 1926 
  • Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
41 1927 
  • 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.
42 1928 
  • Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
43 1929 
  • Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
  • American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
  • Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
44 1930 
  • Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • 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.
45 1931 
  • Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
46 1932 
  • Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
47 1933 
  • Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • Stereo records invented.
48 1934 
  • Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
49 1935 
  • Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • The first canned beer made.
50 1936 
  • Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
  • George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
  • Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
  • Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
51 1937 
  • Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
52 1938 
  • The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
  • Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
53 1939 
  • World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
54 1940 
  • Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
55 1941 
  • Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
56 1942 
  • John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
57 1943 
  • 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.
58 1944 
  • The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
59 1945 
  • World War II ends.
  • Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
  • The atomic bomb invented.
60 1946 
  • The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
61 1947 
  • 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.
62 1948 
  • The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
  • Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
  • Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
63 1949 
  • Cake mix invented.
64 1950 
  • Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
  • The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
65 1951 
  • Super glue invented.
  • Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
  • Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
66 1952 
  • Elizabeth II. Ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1956.
  • 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 called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
  • Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
67 1953 
  • Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
  • Radial tires invented.
  • The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
  • Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
68 1954 
  • Oral contraceptives invented.
  • The first nonstick pan produced.
  • The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
  • Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
69 1955 
  • Optic fiber invented.
70 1956 
  • 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.
71 1957 
  • Fortran (computer language) invented.
72 1958 
  • 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.
  
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