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Marjorie J Baker

Female 1926 - 1943  (17 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1926 
  • 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927 
  • 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
  • 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
  • 1927: Technicolor invented.
  • 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
  • 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
  • 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928 
  • 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
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.
1930 
  • 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • 1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
  • 1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
1931 
  • 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932 
  • 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
1933 
  • 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933: Stereo records invented.
  • 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
1934 
  • 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
10 1935 
  • 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • 1935: The first canned beer made.
11 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: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
  • 1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
  • 1936: Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
12 1937 
  • 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
13 1938 
  • 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
  • 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
14 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.
15 1940 
  • 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
16 1941 
  • 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
17 1942 
  • 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
18 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.