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Firsts & Finales

Famous Firsts | Major Discoveries | Final Farewells & Finales

[The fair] is an attempt to demonstrate to an international audience the nature and significance of scientific discoveries, the methods of achieving them, and the changes which their application has wrought in industry and in living conditions.

Century of Progress International Exposition [Chicago Worlds' Fair], Program, 1933

Famous Firsts

Poster, King Kong - 1933 (Private Collection)Many of the products, ideas and processes we know and use today were first introduced between 1913 and 1933. You might be surprised that some of these discoveries, inventions and developments have been around so long. With others, however, you might be astonished at how new they really are!

Electric Refrigerators (1913)

Color Motion Pictures (1914)

Taxi Cabs (1915)

Rose Bowl Game (1916)

Woman in U. S. Congress (1917)

Jazz Recordings (1917)

Daylight Savings Time (1918)

Municipal Airport (1919)

Baby Ruth Candy Bars (1920)

Helicopter Flights (1921)

Woman in U. S. Senate (1922)

Sugar-Free Gelatin Desserts (1923)

Little Orphan Annie Comics (1924)

Winnie the Pooh Books (1924)

National Spelling Bee (1925)

Book-of-the Month Club (1926)

Kool-Aid (1927)

Mickey Mouse Cartoons (1928)

Academy Awards Ceremony (1929)

Irish Sweepstakes (1930)

Fiberglass (1931)

Unemployment Insurance (1932)

Singing Telegrams (1933)

King Kong Movie (1933)

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Major Discoveries

Photograph, Albert Einstein (Private Collection)The 1910s, 1920s and 1930s were also a time of great advancements in science. Among the major discoveries:

Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1915)

Vitamin C (1918)

Split Atoms (1919)

Insulin (1921)

Color television (1925)

Penicillin (1928)

Pluto the Planet (1930) 

Antimatter (1932)

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Final Farewells & Finales

Advertisement, Harry Houdini  (Private Collection)In addition to seeing the first of some things, Americans also saw the last of others during the 1910s, 20s and early 30s. Here is just a short list of some of the people America lost and some of the events that transpired that helped shape these twenty years.

Last Passenger Pigeon dies (1914)

Panama Canal finished (1914)

Legal sale of alcohol ends (1920)

“Man O’ War” retires (1920)

Tenor Enrico Caruso dies (1921)

Magician Harry Houdini dies (1926)

Actor Rudolph Valentino dies (1926)

Model T production stops (1927)

Stock Market crashes (1929)

Gangster Al Capone jailed (1931)

Actress Mary Pickford retires (1933)

Prohibition repealed (1933)

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