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| 1 | 1926 | - 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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| 2 | 1927 | - 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
- 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
- 1927: Technicolor invented.
- 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
- 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
- 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
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| 3 | 1928 | - 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
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| 4 | 1929 | - 1929: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
- 1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- 1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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| 5 | 1930 | - 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
- 1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
- 1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
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| 6 | 1931 | - 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
- 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
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| 7 | 1932 | - 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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| 8 | 1933 | - 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
- 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- 1933: Stereo records invented.
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| 9 | 1934 | - 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
- 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
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| 10 | 1935 | - 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
- 1935: The first canned beer made.
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| 11 | 1936 | - 1936: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- 1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
- 1936: Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
- 1936: George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
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| 12 | 1937 | - 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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| 13 | 1938 | - 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
- 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
- 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
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| 14 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
- 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
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| 15 | 1940 | - 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
- 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
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| 16 | 1941 | - 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
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| 17 | 1942 | - 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
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| 18 | 1943 | - 1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
- 1943: James Wright invent silly putty.
- 1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
- 1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
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1926 - 1943 (17 years)