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Industry- Eli Whitney Invented Cotton Gin
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Computers- babbage analytical engine
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Ist American Telegraph- By Finley Breese Morse
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Congress spent $30,000 on telegraphs
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Harris introduced gifted ed in schools
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Galton- wrote Heredity Genius in Great Britain
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Alexander bell invented telephone
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Edison invented phonoggaph
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Edison invented light bulb
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Binet's IQ Test
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Charles Duryea invented automobile
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George Eastman - 1st portable camera
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Orville & Wilbur Wright - first flight
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Gas powered automobile - Henry Ford
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Suffrage Parade
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1910-1920
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Sinking of the Titanic
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Titanic Sank
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Ford installs first moving assembly line
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Panama Canal Opens
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Sinking of Lusitania
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Prohibition
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Girl Scouts Formed
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National Parks Service formed
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1st Radio Broadcast
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1st Miss America Contest
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Leta Hollingworth
made early contributions to counseling the gifted "emotional education"... as they are highly intelligent, they are also highly vulnerable -
Yankee Stadium built
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Great Gatsby published
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Prohibition
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Babe Ruth sets new HR record
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Steamboat Willy released by Disney
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The Great Depression
Great Depression made people focus on survival and equity, not on enhancing education for gifted children. -
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Faulkner's great period
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Films
GWTW, Grapes of Wrath, Wizard of Oz, Dracula and Frankenstein. -
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Bikini introduced
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WWII innovations
Radar was developed, atomic bomb, jet aircraft, ballistic missles, increased viability of tanks. -
Hoovercraft Invented
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NASA created
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American Express introduced first plastic credit card
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Portable Music Player
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Development of 8-track and cassette tape
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Bob Dylan's music was popular.
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Elton John's and Cat Steven's music was popular.
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26th Amendment
Voting age changed from 21 to 18. -
VCR invented
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First Word Processor
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Laser Printer invented
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Ink Jet Printer is invented.
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1st artificial heart invented.
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First Cell Phone
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Computers
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IBM PCs became popular in a lot of households
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the internet was invented by the US Department of Defense
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Apple McIntosh invented
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Fuji introduced the disposable camera
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Digital cellular phones invented
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Tim Berners-Lee proposes a 'hypertext' system, which is the start of the Internet as we know today
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Computers