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Car
The first "car" was created in 1769. It was steamed powered and hauled french artillery at a slow walking pace of 2 1/2 mph. -
Radio
In 1866 Mahlon Loomis provided the first demonstration of wireless communication, and then in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal. -
Telephone
In July of 1877, the Bell Telephone Company was formed by Gardiner Hubbard. By the end of 1877 there were three thousand telephones in service. -
The Great Migration
African Americans migrated to the North to escape racism and to find better schools. -
18th Amendment
"The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. Upon ratification of the amendment by the states, Congress voted its approval in October 1919, and enacted it into law as the National Prohibition Act of 1920. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday is a term used to refer to events which occur on a Thursday. It has been used in the following cases to this day: * February 6, 1851, Black Thursday bushfires, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, the largest recorded bushfire in Victoria * October 24, 1929 -
Immigration Act 1924
A United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. -
Television
In 1926, just a little after Jenkins, a British inventor known as John Logie Baird, was the first person to have succeeded in transmitting moving pictures through the mechanical disk system started by Nipkow. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in November 1932. -
1933 (state of economy)
The economy began to recover after the stock market crash during the great depression. -
21st Amendment
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States. -
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt. -
Computer
In 1939, Zuse completed the Z2, the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is a 1954 film noir starring Edward G. Robinson. The film is a return of Robinson playing evil gangster types like he did in early Warner Bros. films. The crime melodrama also stars Peter Graves in one of his early film roles. The film also starred Jean Parker. -
Frisbee
There is controversy over when and who invented the Frisbee but Wham-o toy company began producing it in 1957. -
Internet
Development of internet started in 1957 when Sputnik I (the first satellite) was launched by Soviet Union. Americans felt threat by this and thought that the Soviet Union could also do bomb attacks from the space. -
The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill (officially titled Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m) was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation.