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Year |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1931 | - Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
- Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
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| 4 | 1932 | - Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1935 | - The first canned beer made.
- Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
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| 8 | 1936 | - Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- 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.
- Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
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| 9 | 1937 | - Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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| 10 | 1938 | - Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
- Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
- The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
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| 11 | 1939 | - Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
- World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
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| 12 | 1940 | - Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
- Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
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| 13 | 1941 | - Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
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| 14 | 1942 | - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
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| 15 | 1943 | - Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
- James Wright invent silly putty.
- Richard James invents the slinky.
- Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
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| 16 | 1944 | - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
- The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
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| 17 | 1945 | - Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
- The atomic bomb invented.
- World War II ends.
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| 18 | 1946 | - The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
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| 19 | 1947 | - Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
- British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
- Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
- Mobile phones first invented.
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| 20 | 1948 | - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
- The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
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| 21 | 1949 | |
| 22 | 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.
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| 23 | 1951 | - Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
- Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
- Super glue invented.
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