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6 days ago · Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. [2] [3] The term cubism is broadly associated with a variety of artworks produced in Paris ( Montmartre and Montparnasse ) or near Paris ( Puteaux ) during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s.
3 days ago · 20th century 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
4 days ago · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
5 days ago · The idea of a 'long' Twentieth century is sure to gain ground. The unification of Germany, the Meiji restoration, the dramatic transformation of the USA during reconstruction, the first stirrings of women's emancipation, mass democracy and the beginning of demographic transition.
2 days ago · One of the biggest 20th century advancements that we take for granted these days is the advent of an emergency services number. AT&T brought this necessary service to life in 1968 with 9-1-1, an ...
6 days ago · Tabloid Century is vital reading for scholars and general readers interested in how the popular press shaped, and was shaped by, 20th-century British social and political life, and for those interested in where the tabloid press that we have today came from.
4 days ago · In contrast to the `gentler story' of constitutional developments in Britain or the United States, Spain's long troubled century has seen two monarchies, one republic, two dictatorships and one of the bloodiest civil wars in Europe's recent history.
