Victor Harbor High Old Scholars
1910
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Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
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Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
1911
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Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912
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Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
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The first military tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
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Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy.
1913
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The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
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The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
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Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
1914
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Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915
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Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916
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Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
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Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917
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Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918
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The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
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Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919
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The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
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Short-wave radio invented.
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The flip-flop circuit invented.
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The arc welder invented.
1920
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The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
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The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921
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Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
1922
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Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
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The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
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Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
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The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
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John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
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Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
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The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
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Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925
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The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1926
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Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927
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Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
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JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
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Technicolor invented, which allowed the widespread creation of color movies.
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Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
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Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
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Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928
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Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
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Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929
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American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
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Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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1921
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Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
1922
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Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
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The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
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Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
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The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
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John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
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Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
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The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
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Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925
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The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1926
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Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927
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Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
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JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
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Technicolor invented, which allowed the widespread creation of color movies.
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Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
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Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
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Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928
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Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
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Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929
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American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
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Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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1930
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Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
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The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
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Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invent neoprene.
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The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
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Frank Whittle and Dr. Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
1931
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Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
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Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932
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Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
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Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
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Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933
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Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
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Stereo records invented.
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Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934
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Englishman Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
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Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
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Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935
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Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
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The first canned beer made.
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Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1936
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Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
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Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
1937
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Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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The first jet engine is built.
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1938
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The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
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Strobe lighting invented.
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LSD was synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann of Sandoz Laboratories.
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Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
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Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
1939
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Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
1940
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Dr. William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
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Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
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Karl Pabst invents the jeep.