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Jul 14, 2019 · A Look at the 13 Most Influential Inventions from the Early 1900s - Interesting Engineering. Inventions and ideas that came from this era still impact our daily lives to this day. Donovan...
Sep 18, 2018 · 1900 – 1910 inventions. Inventions of the Twentieth Century. 1901 : Vacuum cleaner. 1902 : Air conditioning; automated tea maker. 1903 : Electrocardiogram; first powered flight. 1904 : Radar; tea bags; diodes. 1905 : Plastic; windscreen wipers; silencer for guns. 1906 : Radio broadcasting.
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- 1500s: Math representation. René Descartes invented analytical geometry, and by doing so he put a name and set of notations to different math ideas in a way that brought them together and communicated their relationship.
- 1582: Gregorian calendar. The calendar we still use today dates back to 1582, when it replaced and fine-tuned the previous Julian calendar. With 12 months of various lengths and an elaborate formula for the frequency of leap years, the Gregorian calendar keeps us on track with the real length of Earth’s orbit around the sun.
- 1600s: Telescope. In Classical times, people around the world saw an astonishing amount with the naked eye. But in the early 1600s, Hans Lippershey applied for the first-known patent for a magnifying lens to be fitted into what we now know as the telescope.
- 1600s: Ice cream. Thomas Jefferson brought ice cream back from France in the very late 1700s, but the food itself dates all the way back to the 17th century in Italy.
- Neon Signs. Discovered in 1898, neon gas was named after the word neos (“new”). Georges Claude was the French engineer, chemist, and inventor who first applied an electrical discharge to a tube of neon gas to create a lamp.
- Gumball Machines. Vending machines were introduced to the US in 1888 by the Thomas Adams Gum Company. Thomas Adams is famous for inventing chewing gum, and these machines held the original flavors of Tutti Frutti, Spearmint, Blackjack, and Clove.
- Windshield Wipers. Although the first steam-powered automobile was built in 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, windshield wipers weren’t invented until 1905 by Mary Anderson in New York.
- Vacuum Cleaners. British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth is responsible for creating one of the first powered vacuum cleaners. Before then, machines blew out air to try to push the debris away instead of removing it completely.
Jan 24, 2020 · Updated on January 24, 2020. Technology, science, inventions, and re-inventions have progressed at an accelerated rate during the hundred years of the 20th century, more so than any other century. We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder.
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Jan 10, 2024 · Spanning roughly 1870-1900, the Gilded Age was a time of rapid industrialization in the United States. The country was transforming from an agrarian society of farmers and small producers to an industrial economy based in large urban cities.
Inventions such as car couplers, air brakes, and Pullman passenger cars allowed the volume of both freight and people to increase steadily. From 1877 to 1890, both the amount of goods and the number of passengers traveling the rails tripled.