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Fitzgerald Timeline
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Adhesive tape is invented
Richard G. Drew invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape (also called cellophane tape or Scotch tape). He went on to make masking tape and a more imporve verion of tape later on. -
Photographic paper is invented
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper. Velox was the first photographic paper that could be printed in artificial light. -
Radio is invented
Guglielmo Marconi promoted and popularized the radio. His first transmission across the Atlantic Ocean was on December 12, 1901. Marconi won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. -
Quadricycle is invented
Henry Ford built a "horseless carriage," which he called the "Quadricycle," which means "four wheels" -
Fitzgerald born
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was given his name to show his parents pide in his father's ancestrry. -
Mt. St. Helens
Mt. St. Helens in southwest Washington erupted, killing 62 and spreading thick ash over an area of 250 square miles. A geologist who baaerly secaped said it was pore powerful than the Hikoshima nuclear explosion. -
First time Assembly was used
Used by Ransome Eli Olds, an early car-maker. Henry Ford (1863-1947) used the first conveyor belt-based assembly-line in his car factory. -
Popsicle is ivented
The popsicle was invented by Frank Epperson who had left his fruit drink out overnight with a stirrer in it, accdently creating the frozen treat. -
Cellophane is invented
It was invented in 1908 by Jacques Edwin Brandenberger. Cellophane proved very useful all alone as a packaging material. Uesed to make cellophane repellant. -
Tea bags are invented
Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan. Sullivan was a tea and coffee merchant in New York who began packaging tea sample in tiny silk bags, but that was not liked, and so thin paper was used later on. -
Fitzgelad's First Work is published
His first work is published in a student paper, a mystery called "The mystery of Raymond Mortgage." -
Fitzgerald goes to Prep School
Fitzgerald goes to a Catholic prep school, called Newman, in New Jersey. He ,eetsan inspiring father there. -
Fitzgerald goes to college
He makes it to Princeton Univesity, where his love for theatre comes out and he writes many scripts. -
Self-Cleaning house in invented
Frances Gabe invented and patented the self-cleaning house. Gabe. She designed and lived in a house that she made self-cleaning, surprisingly, it never caught on. -
Twenty-one states ban saloons
Twenty-one states banned saloons, it was sonsidered unpatriotic to use so much grain to make alchol. Also, many large brewers and distillers were German, and to make things thnigs short, the German's were not our most favorite people at the time. -
Fitzgerald joins the army
He left the Princeton Universit to join the army in the war. While he was in the army, he met the ove of his life. -
Fitzgeald graduated from Princeton
As soon as he graduated, he immediately joined the military. -
Fitzgerald falls in love, and is rejected
Fitzgerald went to Camo Sheridan, where he met Zelda Sayre. But after a while, se broke the engagement on account of his poor salary. -
Fitzgerald is discharged from army
He's is discarged and moves to New York. He gets a job as a commercial writer and begins his writing career. -
Fitzgerald began his career as a writer
He returned to St. Paul and started his writing career as a writer of sotries for mass-circulation magazines. -
Fitzgerald finally marries
Fitgerald finally marries the love of his life, Zelda Sayre in New York, after his wildly successful publication of "This Side of Paradise." -
Q-Tip is invented
The Q-tip was invented by Leo Gerstenzang. His wife had used a toothpick with cotton stuck on the end to clean their baby's ears, si he replaced it with something safer and of his own invention. -
Bread slicer is invented
Invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Iowa, USA, he had worked on his machine since 1912. His machine both sliced and wrapped a loaf of bread. -
Kool-Aid is invented
Invented by the chemist Edwin Perkins, it was originally a liquid called "Fruit Smack." It was later renamed Kool-Aid, and sold in powdered form in packets. -
Valentine's Day Massacre
Increasingly, organized crime groups controlled the liquor industry, which led to turf wars and gang murders, the worst of which was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 in Chicago, was basically turf wars that escalated to gang murders. It was blamed on Al Capone.
