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Arts and craft movement
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South African diamonds discovered
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Suez Canal opens
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Aesthetic Movemont
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Art Nouveau
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Vienna Secession
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Pioneer Modernism
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Russo – Japenese War
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Machine Age
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Patent for first electric vacuum cleaner is lodged
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Enrico Caruso’s first gramophone recording
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First Flight by Orville Wright
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Fauvsim
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Expressionism
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Albert Einstein submits theory E=MC2
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Deutscher Werkbund
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Second Hague Peace Conference of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war.
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Converse Rubber Shoe Company is established
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Futurism
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Cubism
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First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian War.
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Balkan War
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First Model –T Ford produced
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Oskar Barnack produces prototype of the Leica I 35mm film
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Suffragists demonstrate in London. Garment workers strike in New York and Boston
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World War I begins
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Patent for the neon tube is granted
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Dada
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Light switch invented
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Constructivism
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De Stijl
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Destijl
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Bauhaus
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International Style
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Art Deco
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Surrealism
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Modernism
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First radio ‘wireless’ broadcasts begin
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Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
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The Great Depression
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Streamline
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Organic Design and Biomorphism
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Industrial design profession begins
Raymond Loewy begins styling products
Bauhaus moves to Dessau
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World War II begins
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Bauhaus moves to Berlin
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PVC, polystyrene, Perspex and polythene developed
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CAD developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Pop
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Vietnam war
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New Realism
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Space age begins with launch of sputnik
Helvetica designed by Max Miedinger
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Postmodern Design
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Minimal Art
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Conceptual Art / Symbolism
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Radical Design and Anti Design
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Eco Design
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Punk
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Woodstock Music and Art Festival
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Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island
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Information Age begins
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Memphis
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Digital Design
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World Wide Web becomes global network
