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| General | 1900 World pop. 1.6 billion; | 1905 Strowger: dial telephone; J.B. Murphy: 1st Artificial joints (hip); 1906 Siberia explosion downs millions of trees-no meteor debris. Guesses were comet impact or sm black hole; 1908 Henry Ford: Model-T; 1909 NAACP founded New York | 1911 OREOS! The world’s most famous cookie; 1912 Titanic sinks; 1914 1st red light/ green light in Cleveland; WWI begins | 1915 Alfred Wegener’s *The origin of continents and oceans* / cites evidence for his 1912 proposal of continental drift & Pangaea; 1919 WWI ends | 1921 King Tutankhamen’s Tomb opened; 1924 1st spiral bound notebook; Kimberly Clark “celluwipes” Kleenex |
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Science
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1901 Electric typewriter; Wright Brothers fly in their 1st glider (top flight 59 secs); Marconi receives "S" transatlantic; 1902 R. Zsigmondy: ultra micro-scope; 1904 Fleming: diode; Berliner "flat disk" records
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1905 Lowell predicts Pluto; Einstein E=mc2; Marconi; directional radio antenna; 1907 Cornu builds 1st helicopter w/ vertical lift ability (w/ a human); De Forest : Triode Lumiére: color photograph; Korn: facsimile machine; 1909 Geiger Counter
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1914 R.H. Goddard starts developing exp’t rockets; E. Kleinschmidt invents the teletypewriter;
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1915 1st transatlantic radio-telephone call; 1916 Lengevin: sonar; 1917 Einstein’s 'worst mistake' *Model of a static universe*; Schwarzchild predicts black holes;1919 Short wave radio; R.H. Goddard "rockets to the moon!" Einstein’s theory of gravity
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1921 E.A. Milne: Theory of solar atmosphere (solar wind); A. Hull: magnetron (microwave); 1922 Friedmann predicts expanding Universe; 1923 G.E. Hale: spectro- helioscope; 1924 H. Oberth *The rocket into inter- planetary space*; V. Zworykin: Iconoscope
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| Social Science |
1900 Freud: *The Interpretation of Dreams*; 1901 Freud: The psycho- pathy of every day life-“Freudian Slip”;1902 Pavlov: Law of reinforcement; Adler, Freud, et al: 1st Psychoanalytic society; 1904 Weber *The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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1905 Freud *Three essays on the theory of sexuality*; Binet/Simon: I.Q. test; American Sociological Society founded;1906 Sherrington: *Integrative action of the Nervous System* 1907 W. James: Phil. of Pragmatism; 1908 W. McDougall: *Intro to Sociology*
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1913 Adler theorizes that human personality is based on power (vs. Freud’s that it’s based on sex); Behaviorism psych movement begins
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1917 Jung *Psychology of the unconscious* 1919 Watson’s behavior conditioning for research
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1920 Gestalt (whole being) psych movement begins;1921 Kretschmet’s ^physique and character^ mental state of individual related to body build; 1923 Freud *The Ego and the Id*; Japanese Sociological Society: U of Tokyo
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| Science Fiction |
1901 M.P. Shiel: U> *The Lord of the Sea* & *The Purple Cloud*; H.G. Wells: B> *The First Men in the Moon*
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1908 ANATOLE FRANCE: P> *Penguin Island*
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1911 Hugo Gernsback: U> * Ralph 124 C 41+ *; 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs : U> *Under the Moons of Mars (A Princess of Mars)*
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1920 Karl Cåpek: Robot in play, *RUR* (Rossum's Universal Robots) & Evgeny Zamyatin: B> * We*
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