1900 1920

1900-1920

  • Vacuum Cleaner/ Puffing Billy

    Vacuum Cleaner/ Puffing Billy
    Hubert Cecil Booth invented the first successful vacuum cleaner. His first machine, 'Puffing Billy', had a 5 hp piston pump driven by a petrol/gasoline engine or electric motor.
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    Russo-Japanese War

    War that pitted expansionist Russia against up-and-coming Japan. Russia sought warm-water ports and control of Manchuria, while Japan opposed them. War ended in Japanese victory.
  • First Radio Broadcast

    First Radio Broadcast
    The first radio broadcast ever in the world's history was made by Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906 when he beamed a "Christmas concert" to the astonished crews of the ships of the United Fruit Company out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
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    World War I

    Began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Ended with a defeat of the central powers.
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    Battle of Tannenberg

    Battle fought during World War I (1914-1918). One of the few battles of maneuver from a conflict best known for static trench warfare, Tannenberg saw German forces in the east effectively destroy General Alexander Samsonov's Russian Second Army. Ended in a German victory.
  • Battle of the Falklands

    Battle of the Falklands
    The Battle of the Falklands was fought during World War I (1914-1918). The squadrons engaged off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, resulting in HMAS Sydney defeating SMS Emden.
  • Rebirth of the KKK

    Rebirth of the KKK
    The rebirth of the KKK was inspired by the lynching of Leo Frank and the release of The Birth of the Nation, a popular and groundbreaking film that valorized the Reconstruction Era Klan as a protector of feminine virtue and white racial purity.
  • United States presidential election of 1916

    United States presidential election of 1916
    American presidential election in which Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson defeated Republican Charles Evan Hughes in the electoral college 277–254.
  • Warren Harding Presidency

    Warren Harding Presidency
    In the Unites States presidential election of 1920, Republican Warren G. Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox in a landslide.