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Empire State Building Completed
The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb in two weeks. as a result of the Great Depression many of the offices went unrented. The Empire State Building was in competition with the Chrysler building for the tallest building in New York. I chose this because it was a huge event in New York making one of the tallest buildings In The world -
FBI Lab Founded
The FBI lab opened with J. Edgar Hoover as its director. After his death, the legislation was changed to only let a director serve 10 years. i chose this because it was an event that changed how the government solved crimes on a larger scale. -
Schrödinger's cat
This is a thought experiment described as a paradox, designed by Erwin Shrodinger. The expiriment involved a cat in a box with poison. It is unknown if the cat is alive or dead , so it is in both states at once until opened. I chose this because it is an interesting idea, and the expire,net will have a different outcome almost every time -
Hindenburg Disaster
The Hindenburg took its flight at 7:25 and caught fire mysteriously; and was consumed in flames. this ended air travel of this type as it had caused 36 people their lives. I chose this because this one event caused the end of air travel by airship forever. -
Bullet Proof Glass used for War
Bullet proof glass was accidentally created in 1640, but was being used in war 1939-1949. is was heavy and thick used in military vehicles to help protect soldiers in the battlefield. I chose this because it changed how our security in modern vehicles and evert day lives. -
Aerosol spray cans
It was not until 1941 that the aerosol spray can was first put to good use by Americans Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan, who are credited as the inventors of the modern spray can.Their design of a refillable spray can dubbed the "bug bomb", is the ancestor of many popular commercial spray products. -
Mount Rushmore completed
Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers",the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore,In total, the entire project cost $989,992.32. -
M&M's created
Forrest Mars had the idea of creating the chocolate candy because he saw soldiers from the Spanish Civil War eating smarties. The two M's on the side of a M&M stand for Forest E Mars (founder of the Newark Company) and Bruce Murrie (sin of Hershey's president William F R Merrie) -
SCUBA
Aqua-Lung was the original English name of the first open-circuit, "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus" or "SCUBA". The Aqua-Lung was invented in Paris during the winter of 1942–1943 by two Frenchmen. the engineer Emile Gagnan and Naval Lieutenant Jacques Cousteau. -
Microwave invented
Percy Spencer the creator of the microwave oven noticed that microwave radiation was melting a candy bar in his pocket. the first Microwave oven commercially available was called the radarange.It was almost 5 ft 11 in tall, weighed 750 lbs and cost about $5,000 .$53,000 in today's dollars each, and was water-cooled. -
