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Morris MILLER

Morris MILLER

Male Abt 1893 - Abt 1953  (~ 60 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
1895 
  • 1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
1899 
  • 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
1900 
  • 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901 
  • 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
  • 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
  • 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
  • 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
1902 
  • 1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
  • 1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
  • 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
  • 1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.
10 1903 
  • 1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
  • 1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
  • 1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
  • 1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
  • 1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
11 1904 
  • 1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • 1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
12 1905 
  • 1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
13 1906 
  • 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
14 1907 
  • 1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
  • 1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
15 1908 
  • 1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
  • 1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
  • 1908: Model T automobile first sold.
  • 1908: J W Geiger and W M
  • 1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
16 1909 
  • 1909: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • 1909: Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
17 1910 
  • 1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
  • 1910: Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
  • 1910: George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
18 1911 
  • 1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
19 1912 
  • 1912: Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • 1912: The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • 1912: Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
20 1913 
  • 1913: Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
  • 1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
  • 1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • 1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
21 1914 
  • 1914: World War I begins. Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
  • 1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
22 1915 
  • 1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
23 1916 
  • 1916: Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • 1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
24 1918 
  • 1918: World War I ends.
  • 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
25 1919 
  • 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
  • 1919: The arc welder invented.
26 1920 
  • 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
27 1921 
  • 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: 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: 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.
28 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.
29 1923 
  • 1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • 1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • 1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
  • 1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
30 1924 
  • 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
31 1925 
  • 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
32 1926 
  • 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
33 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.
34 1928 
  • 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
35 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.
36 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.
37 1931 
  • 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
38 1932 
  • 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
39 1933 
  • 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933: Stereo records invented.
40 1934 
  • 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
41 1935 
  • 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • 1935: The first canned beer made.
42 1936 
  • 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.
  • 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.
43 1937 
  • 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
44 1938 
  • 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
  • 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
45 1939 
  • 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
46 1940 
  • 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
47 1941 
  • 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
48 1942 
  • 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
49 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.
50 1944 
  • 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
51 1945 
  • 1945: World War II ends.
  • 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
  • 1945: The atomic bomb invented.
52 1946 
  • 1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
53 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.
54 1948 
  • 1948: The Frisbee
  • 1948: Velcro
  • 1948: Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
55 1949 
  • 1949: Cake mix invented.
56 1950 
  • 1950: Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
  • 1950: The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
57 1951 
  • 1951: Super glue invented.
  • 1951: Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
  • 1951: Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
58 1952 
  • 1952: Mr. Potato Head patented.
  • 1952: The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
  • 1952: The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
  • 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.
59 1953 
  • 1953: Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
  • 1953: Radial tires invented.
  • 1953: The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
  • 1953: Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.

 
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