| |
Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1918 | - 1918: World War I ends.
- 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
|
| 2 | 1919 | - 1919: The arc welder invented.
- 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
- 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
|
| 3 | 1920 | - 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
- 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
|
| 4 | 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.
|
| 5 | 1922 | - 1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
- 1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
|
| 6 | 1923 | - 1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
- 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.
|
| 7 | 1924 | - 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
- 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
|
| 8 | 1925 | - 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
|
| 9 | 1926 | - 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
|
| 10 | 1927 | - 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
- 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
- 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
- 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
- 1927: Technicolor invented.
- 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
|
| 11 | 1928 | - 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
|
| 12 | 1929 | - 1929: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
- 1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- 1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
|
| 13 | 1930 | - 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.
- 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
|
| 14 | 1931 | - 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
- 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
|
| 15 | 1932 | - 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
|
| 16 | 1933 | - 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- 1933: Stereo records invented.
- 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
|
| 17 | 1934 | - 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
- 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
|
| 18 | 1935 | - 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
- 1935: The first canned beer made.
|
| 19 | 1936 | - 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.
- 1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
|
| 20 | 1937 | - 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
|
| 21 | 1938 | - 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
- 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
- 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
|
| 22 | 1939 | - 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
- 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
|
| 23 | 1940 | - 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
- 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
|
| 24 | 1941 | - 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
|
| 25 | 1942 | - 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
|
| 26 | 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.
|
| 27 | 1944 | - 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
- 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
|
| 28 | 1945 | - 1945: World War II ends.
- 1945: The atomic bomb invented.
- 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
|
| 29 | 1946 | - 1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
|
| 30 | 1947 | - 1947: British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
- 1947: Mobile phones first invented.
- 1947: Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
- 1947: Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
|
| 31 | 1948 | - 1948: Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
- 1948: The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- 1948: Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
|
| 32 | 1949 | |
| 33 | 1950 | - 1950: The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
- 1950: Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
|
| 34 | 1951 | - 1951: Super glue invented.
- 1951: Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
- 1951: Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
|
| 35 | 1952 | - 1952: Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
- 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.
- 1952: The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
- 1952: The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
- 1952: Mr. Potato Head patented.
|
| 36 | 1953 | - 1953: Radial tires invented.
- 1953: The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
- 1953: Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
- 1953: Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
|
| 37 | 1954 | - 1954: Oral contraceptives invented.
- 1954: The first nonstick pan produced.
- 1954: The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
- 1954: Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
|
1918 - 1954 (35 years)