1. 1900-1909
1.1. 1900
1.1.1. The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1.1.2. Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
1.2. 1901
1.2.1. King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor
1.2.2. The first radio receiver successfully received a radio transmission
1.2.3. Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner
1.3. 1902
1.3.1. Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
1.3.2. The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie
1.3.3. The birth of the Teddy Bear
1.3.4. George Claude invented neon light
1.4. 1903
1.4.1. Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons
1.4.2. Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens
1.4.3. The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane
1.4.4. William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs
1.5. 1904
1.5.1. Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan
1.5.2. Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
1.5.3. John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
1.6. 1905
1.6.1. Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2
1.6.2. Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers
1.7. 1906
1.7.1. William Kellogg invents Cornflakes
1.7.2. Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar-like device
1.7.3. Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode)
1.8. 1907
1.8.1. Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite
1.8.2. Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
1.8.3. The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
1.9. 1908
1.9.1. The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry
1.9.2. Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger
1.9.3. Model T first sold
1.9.4. J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter
1.9.5. Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates
1.10. 1909
1.10.1. Instant coffee invented by G. Washington
2. brave new world technology (control)
2.1. extreme contraceptive measures
2.1.1. individuals are bred in vat through the Bokanovski process and arranged into classes (Alpha to Epsilon)
2.2. hypnopaedia conditioning
2.2.1. sleep learning: assign skills, conditioned to needed job
2.3. God is replaced by “Ford” in the book
2.3.1. represents the replacement of religion by technology, and society is technology orientated (Ford was initiated from Henry Ford, an America industrialist)
2.4. drug: soma
2.4.1. to achieve the goal of everyone being happy, the reason that technology dominate society
2.5. warning from Huxley
2.5.1. technology could potentially come with a price
3. 1920-1930
3.1. 1920
3.1.1. The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson
3.1.2. The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson
3.2. 1921
3.2.1. Artificial life begins -- the first robot built
3.3. 1922
3.3.1. Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
3.3.2. The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
3.4. 1923
3.4.1. Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
3.4.2. The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
3.4.3. John Harwood invented the self-winding watch
3.4.4. Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food
3.5. 1924
3.5.1. The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg
3.5.2. Notebooks with spiral bindings invented
3.6. 1925
3.6.1. The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird
3.7. 1926
3.7.1. Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets
3.8. 1927
3.8.1. Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy
3.8.2. JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch
3.8.3. Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
3.8.4. Technicolor invented, which allowed the widespread creation of color movies
3.8.5. Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can
3.8.6. Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock
3.8.7. Philip Drinker invents the iron lun
3.9. 1928
3.9.1. Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
3.9.2. Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer
3.9.3. Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver
3.10. 1929
3.10.1. American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio
3.10.2. Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad
3.11. 1930
3.11.1. Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew
3.11.2. The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye
3.11.3. Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invent neoprene
3.11.4. The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston
3.11.5. Frank Whittle and Dr. Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine
4. 1910-1919
4.1. 1910
4.1.1. Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
4.1.2. Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public
4.2. 1911
4.2.1. Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
4.3. 1912
4.3.1. Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy.
4.3.2. Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
4.3.3. The first military tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
4.4. 1913
4.4.1. Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
4.4.2. The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
4.4.3. The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
4.5. 1914
4.5.1. Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
4.6. 1915
4.6.1. Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
4.6.2. Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City
4.7. 1916
4.7.1. Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
4.7.2. Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
4.8. 1918
4.8.1. Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
4.9. 1916
4.9.1. Radio tuners invented, that received different stations
4.9.2. Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly
4.10. 1917
4.10.1. Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper)
4.11. 1918
4.11.1. The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
4.11.2. Charles Jung invented fortune cookies
4.12. 1919
4.12.1. The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite
4.12.2. Short-wave radio invented
4.12.3. The flip-flop circuit invented
4.12.4. The arc welder invented