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In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
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In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically the telephone
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1876 was the year that Nipkow patented a rotating disc that could be used to capture and display an image using electricity
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Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895.
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South African americans mmigrated to escape racism, find jobs, and escape the slave trade
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The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
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19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States
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October 24, 1929, when 12.9 million shares of stock were sold in one day, triple the normal amount. Share prices fell 15 - 20%, causing a stock market crash.
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The stock market lost $14 billion on Black Tuesday. Total loss for the week was $30 billion, ten times more than the Federal budget.
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21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, making alcohol once again legal
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1936 Konrad Zuse Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer.
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1969 and was quickly usurped by civilian computer nerds who had now found a way to share the few great computers that existed at that time.