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Vinnie S WOLBERT

Female 1880 - 1972  (92 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
1881 
  • 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
  • 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884 
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1885 
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
1887 
  • 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
1888 
  • 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
1889 
  • 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
  • 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
10 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
11 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
12 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.
13 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
14 1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
15 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
16 1899 
  • 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
17 1900 
  • 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
21 1904 
  • 1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • 1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
22 1905 
  • 1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
23 1906 
  • 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
24 1907 
  • 1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
  • 1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
25 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.
26 1909 
  • 1909: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • 1909: Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
27 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.
28 1911 
  • 1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
29 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.
30 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.
31 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.
32 1915 
  • 1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
33 1916 
  • 1916: Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • 1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
34 1918 
  • 1918: World War I ends.
  • 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
35 1919 
  • 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
  • 1919: The arc welder invented.
36 1920 
  • 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
37 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.
38 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.
39 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.
40 1924 
  • 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
41 1925 
  • 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
42 1926 
  • 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
43 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.
44 1928 
  • 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
45 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.
46 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.
47 1931 
  • 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
48 1932 
  • 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
49 1933 
  • 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933: Stereo records invented.
50 1934 
  • 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
51 1935 
  • 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • 1935: The first canned beer made.
52 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.
53 1937 
  • 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
54 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.
55 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.
56 1940 
  • 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
57 1941 
  • 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
58 1942 
  • 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
59 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.
60 1944 
  • 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
61 1945 
  • 1945: World War II ends.
  • 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
  • 1945: The atomic bomb invented.
62 1946 
  • 1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
63 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.
64 1948 
  • 1948: The Frisbee
  • 1948: Velcro
  • 1948: Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
65 1949 
  • 1949: Cake mix invented.
66 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.
67 1951 
  • 1951: Super glue invented.
  • 1951: Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
  • 1951: Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
68 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.
69 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.
70 1954 
  • 1954: Oral contraceptives invented.
  • 1954: The first nonstick pan produced.
  • 1954: The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
  • 1954: Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
71 1955 
  • 1955: Optic fiber invented.
72 1956 
  • 1956: The first computer hard disk used.
  • 1956: The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
  • 1956: Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
73 1957 
  • 1957: Fortran (computer language) invented.
74 1958 
  • 1958: The modem invented.
  • 1958: Gordon Gould invents the laser.
  • 1958: The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
  • 1958: The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
75 1959 
  • 1959: The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
  • 1959: Barbie Doll invented.
  • 1959: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
76 1960 
  • 1960: USA Vietnam War Begins
  • 1960: The halogen lamp invented.
77 1961 
  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
  • 1961: John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
  • 1961: Valium invented.
  • 1961: The nondairy creamer invented.
78 1962 
  • 1962: The audio cassette invented.
  • 1962: The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
  • 1962: Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
  • 1962: Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
79 1963 
  • 1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
  • 1963: Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
  • 1963: The first videodisc invented.
80 1964 
  • 1964: Acrylic paint invented.
  • 1964: Permanent-press fabric invented.
  • 1964: BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
81 1965 
  • 1965: Astroturf invented.
  • 1965: Soft contact lenses invented.
  • 1965: NutraSweet invented.
  • 1965: The compact disk invented by James Russell.
82 1966 
  • 1966: Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
83 1967 
  • 1967: The first handheld calculator invented.
84 1968 
  • 1968: The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
  • 1968: The first computer with integrated circuits made.
  • 1968: Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
85 1969 
  • 1969: Richard Nixon president of the USA 1969-1974.
  • 1969: The arpanet (first internet) invented.
  • 1969: The artificial heart invented.
  • 1969: The ATM invented.
  • 1969: The bar-code scanner is invented.
86 1970 
  • 1970: The daisy-wheel printer invented.
  • 1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
87 1971 
  • 1971: The dot-matrix printer invented.
  • 1971: The food processor invented.
  • 1971: The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
  • 1971: The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
  • 1971: VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
88 1972 
  • 1972: The word processor invented.
  • 1972: Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
  • 1972: Hacky Sack

 
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