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George Woodrow Baker

Male 1913 - 1945  (31 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1913 
  • 1913: Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
  • 1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
  • 1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • 1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
1914 
  • 1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
  • 1914: World War I begins. Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
1915 
  • 1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916 
  • 1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
  • 1916: Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
1918 
  • 1918: World War I ends.
  • 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919 
  • 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
  • 1919: The arc welder invented.
1920 
  • 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
1921 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1921: Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • 1921: John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
1922 
  • 1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
  • 1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
10 1923 
  • 1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
  • 1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • 1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • 1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
11 1924 
  • 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
12 1925 
  • 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
13 1926 
  • 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
14 1927 
  • 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
  • 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
  • 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
  • 1927: Technicolor invented.
  • 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
  • 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
15 1928 
  • 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
16 1929 
  • 1929: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
  • 1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
  • 1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
17 1930 
  • 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • 1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
  • 1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
18 1931 
  • 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
19 1932 
  • 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
20 1933 
  • 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933: Stereo records invented.
21 1934 
  • 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
22 1935 
  • 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • 1935: The first canned beer made.
23 1936 
  • 1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
  • 1936: 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.
  • 1936: Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
  • 1936: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
24 1937 
  • 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
25 1938 
  • 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
  • 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
26 1939 
  • 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
27 1940 
  • 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
28 1941 
  • 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
29 1942 
  • 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
30 1943 
  • 1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
  • 1943: James Wright invent silly putty.
  • 1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
  • 1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
31 1944 
  • 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
32 1945 
  • 1945: The atomic bomb invented.
  • 1945: World War II ends.
  • 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.