What
happened during these years?
Vacuum Cleaner
Patented - 1899
John S. Thurman - his "pneumatic carpet renovator"
was a
large, gasoline
powered system.Gamma
Rays Discovered - 1900
Paul
Villard
First Transatlantic Wireless
Message - 1901
Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless
transmission from
England to Canada. The message was three dots Morse Code
representing the letter S.
Air Conditioner- 1902
Willis
Carrier, a young engineer, created what he called
an
Apparatus for Treating Air
First Man Made
Fiber - 1902
William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little, and Harry S. Mork. The
fabric
was
originally called Viscose, but in 1924, the textile industry
changed its
name to Rayon.
Electrocardiograph
- 1903
Wilhelm
Einthoven
Dutch
physiologist, refines A.D. Waller's
electrocardiogram, and devises an instrument to record the
heart's
electrical impulses
Stainless
Steel - 1904
Leon Guillet
develops stainless steel but doesn't recognize
it's noncorrosive
Electric Plug Patented
- 1904
Harvey Hubbell II
First Radio Program-
1906
Professor Reginald Fessenden broadcast a poetry
reading, a
violin solo, and a speech from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, to
promote his new alternator-transmitter system.
Plastic -
1907
Leo
Baekeland invented the first synthetic polymer the first
artificial material made by linking small molecules together
to make large ones.
Geiger Counter -
1908
Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger
counter
for
measuring radiation
Electric Washing
Machine - 1908
The first electric-powered washing machine was introduced by
the
Hurley
Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher
was the
inventor.
The machine was a drum type with a
galvanized tub and an electric
motor,
for which a patent was
issued on Aug. 9, 1910
Pop Up Toaster - 1909
Charles Strite
Cellophane - 1908
Jaques Edwin Brandenberger in Switzerland.
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