HISTORY    1900  -  1945
Date. Event
1900 General Quantum Theory - Max Plank
1900 Alpha & Beta Particle Radiation Classification - Pierre Curie
1900 Gamma Radiation - Paul Villard
1900 Sigmund Freud - Interpretation of Dreams
1900 Tractor - Benjamin Holt
1901 Safety Razor - King Gillette
1901 Theodore Roosevelt - President
1901 Vacuum Electron Tube - John Fleming
1903 Controled Air Flight - Orvil & Wilber Wright - Kitty Hawk, NC
1904 Russia-Japan War
1904 Psychoanalysis - Sigmond Freud
1904 Radar - Christian Hulsmeyer
1905 Special Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein
1905 Gyrocompas - Elmer Sperry
1905 Intelligence Testing - Alferd Binet
1906 Magnetic N. Pole Fixed - Ronald Amundsen
1906 Electric Washing Machine - Alva Fisher
1907 Rules of War - Hague Peace Conference
1907 Mass-Energy Equivalence - Albert Einstein
1908 Model T Ford - Henry Ford
1909 N. Pole - Robert Peary
1909 N.A.A.C.P - W. DuBois
1910 Boy Scouts
1910 Conditioned Reflex - Ivan Pavlov
1911 War Plane - Turk-Italian War
1911 China Republic
1911 S. Pole - Ronald Amundsen
1911 Atom - Nuclear Model - Ernest Rutherford
1912 Isotopes - Frederick Soddy
1912 Plate Tectonics - Alfred Wegener
1912 Vitimins - F. Hopkins, Casimir Funk
1913 Income Tax
1913 Woodrow Wilson - President
1913 Atomic Structure - Neils Bohr
1913 Sub-Atomic Quantum Theory - Neils Bohr
1913 Moving Assembly Line - Henry Ford
1914 World War 1 starts
1914 Panama Canal Opens
1915 General Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein
1917 U.S. in World War 1
1917 Russian Revolution
1917 Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
1918 World War 1 Ends
1918 Influenza - 25,000,000 killed  -  500,000 in U.S.
1918 Automatic Rifle - John Browning
1919 Trans-Atlantic Flight - Alcock & Brown
1919 Mahatuma Gandhi initiates Satyagraha
1919 League of Nations
1919 Proton - Ernest Rutherford
1920 19th Amendment - Women's Sufferage
1921 Insulin - Frederick Banting, Charles Best
1922 Polymerization - Hermann Staudinger
1923 Iconoscope (TV) - Vladimir Zworkin
1924 Stalin - Soviet Union
1924 Frosen Food - Clarence Birdseye
1925 Television Transmission - John Baird
1925 Exclusion Principle - Wolfgang Pauli
1925 Quantum Mechanics - Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger
1926 Liquid Fuel Rocket - Robert Goddard
1926 Motion Picture Sound - Warner Brothers
1926 True TV Image
1927 Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight - Lindbergh
1927 Big Bang Theory & Expanding Universe - George LeMaitre
1927 Uncertainty Principle - Werner Heisenberg
1928 Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
1928 Electric Razor - Jacob Schick
1928 Cathode Ray Tube (TV) - Vladimir Zworkin
1929 Depression
1929 Car Radio - Motorola
1929 Universe Expansion Evidence & Hubble Constant - Edwin Hubble
1929 "Scotch" Tape - Richard Drew
1930 Cyclotron - Ernest Lawrence, U.S.
1930 Pluto Discovered - Clyde Taumbaugh,
1931 Cyclotron - Ernest Lawrence
1931 Heavy Hydrogen Discovered -  - Harold Urey
1932 Electron Microscope
1932 Celestial Radio Wave Detection - Karl Jansky
1932 Neutron - James Chadwick
1932 Positron - Carl Anderson
1933 Franklin Roosevelt - President - New Deal
1933 Frequency Modulation - Edwin Armstrong
1934 Neutron Induced Radiation - Enrico Fermi
1934 Practical Radar - Robert Watson-Watt
1935 Nylon - Wallace Carothers
1935 Commercial Coloe Film - Kodak
1935 Richter Scale - Charles Richter
1936 China-Japan War
1936 Helicopter - Heinrich Focke
1936 Jet Engine Frank Whittle
1938 Minimum Wage - Fair Labor Standards Act
1938 Nuclear Fission - Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann
1938 Xerography - Chester Carlson
1939 World War 2 starts
1939 Einstein Letter to Roosevelt - Build A-Bomb
1939 Practical Heliicopter - Igor Sikorsky
1940 Network Television Broadcast - NBC
1940 Penicillin - Howard Florey, Ernst Chaun
1941 America in World War 2 - Pearl Harbor
1941 4 Freedoms - Franklin Roosevelt
1941 Manhattan Project (A-Bomb) begun - Franklin Roosevelt & Robert Oppenheimer
1941 Plutonium
1942 Holocaust - Final Solution - Wannsee Conference
1942 United Nations
1942 Nuclear Reactor - Enrico Fermi
1944 D-Day - Normandy Invasion
1944 Ball-Point Pen - Lazio Biro
1945 A-Bomb Created & used against Japan
1945 World War 2 Ends
1945 Computer - Electronic Numerical - ENIAC