The Great Geek Manual

1907
Dr. Lee De Forest patents the three-element vacuum tube, the Audion tube. (US No. 841,386) The component can be used as an electrical signal amplifier, most notably in radios.

1913
The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.

1936
In Toledo, Ohio, construction of the first building covered completely in glass is completed for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
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1907
Dr. Lee De Forest patents the three-element vacuum tube, the Audion tube. (US No. 841,386) The component can be used as an electrical signal amplifier, most notably in radios.

1913
The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.

1936
In Toledo, Ohio, construction of the first building covered completely in glass is completed for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
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1873
“Celluloid” becomes a registered trademark.

1878
William Henry Preece demonstrates the new telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell to Queen Victoria at her Osborne House estate on the Isle of Wight. Bell patented the telephone in 1876, and in 1877, Bell had come to England on his honeymoon, demonstrating his device to telegraph engineers and giving lectures as he traveled. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the Queen, very impressed with the device, orders a phone line installed between Osbourne House and Buckingham Palace.

1914
Henry Ford introduces the first modern assembly line for the Ford Model T when he improves his existing assembly-line operation with the addition of a chain to pull each chassis along. This method of using continuous motion reduces the time is takes to assemble a car from twelve and a half hours to ninety-three minutes.
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1873
“Celluloid” becomes a registered trademark.

1878
William Henry Preece demonstrates the new telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell to Queen Victoria at her Osborne House estate on the Isle of Wight. Bell patented the telephone in 1876, and in 1877, Bell had come to England on his honeymoon, demonstrating his device to telegraph engineers and giving lectures as he traveled. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the Queen, very impressed with the device, orders a phone line installed between Osbourne House and Buckingham Palace.

1914
Henry Ford introduces the first modern assembly line for the Ford Model T when he improves his existing assembly-line operation with the addition of a chain to pull each chassis along. This method of using continuous motion reduces the time is takes to assemble a car from twelve and a half hours to ninety-three minutes.
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1404
The English Parliament passes the Act of Multipliers, forbidding alchemists from using transmutation to create or multiply precious metals, specifically gold and silver. The Act comes in response to widespread fear that alchemists would succeed in their projects and ruin the nation or install a despot. In 1689, Robert Boyle lobbied for repeal of the Act.

1610
Galileo Galilei discovers what will later be named Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter. Galileo names the Moon along with the three he discovered earlier the “Medicean planets,” after the Medici family, and numerically as I, II, III and IV. Galileo’s naming system will be used until the mid-1800′s, when they will come to be referred to as Galilean moons, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io.
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1404
The English Parliament passes the Act of Multipliers, forbidding alchemists from using transmutation to create or multiply precious metals, specifically gold and silver. The Act comes in response to widespread fear that alchemists would succeed in their projects and ruin the nation or install a despot. In 1689, Robert Boyle lobbied for repeal of the Act.

1610
Galileo Galilei discovers what will later be named Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter. Galileo names the Moon along with the three he discovered earlier the “Medicean planets,” after the Medici family, and numerically as I, II, III and IV. Galileo’s naming system will be used until the mid-1800′s, when they will come to be referred to as Galilean moons, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io.
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1773
The first public museum in America is established in Charleston, South Carolina.

1881
The first commercially successful long distance line, running forty-five miles between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, opens for business.

1896
The first X-ray photo in the U.S. is made by Dr. Henry Louis Smith in Davidson, North Carolina. Smith shot a bullet into the hand of a human cadaver and then made a fifteen minute x-ray exposure of the hand to reveal the bullet.
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1773
The first public museum in America is established in Charleston, South Carolina.

1881
The first commercially successful long distance line, running forty-five miles between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, opens for business.

1896
The first X-ray photo in the U.S. is made by Dr. Henry Louis Smith in Davidson, North Carolina. Smith shot a bullet into the hand of a human cadaver and then made a fifteen minute x-ray exposure of the hand to reveal the bullet.
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