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Overton Ellsworth Baker

Male 1919 - 1922  (2 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1919 
  • 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
  • 1919: The arc welder invented.
1920 
  • 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
1921 
  • 1921: Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
  • 1921: Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
  • 1921: Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • 1921: John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
1922 
  • 1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • 1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.