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1901
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VICTROLA
The Victor Talking Machine Co. is formed and, together with Emile Berliner's Gramophone Co., produce recorded disks to be played on their Victrolas.
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1902
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Chemist Edwin
Binney develops the Crayola crayon.
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1913
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ZIPPER
Gideon Sundback perfects the zipper.
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1915
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Film director D.W. Griffith releases The Birth of a Nation.
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1915
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Corning Inc.
develops heat and shock-resistant glass and sells it under the trade name Pyrex.
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1920
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RADIO BROADCASTING
Pittsburgh station KDKA airs the first scheduled radio broadcast in the U.S.
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1920s
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REFRIGERATOR
Early designs for home refrigerators use the toxic sulfur dioxide as a coolant, and the public demurs.
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1927
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SOUND MOVIES
The Jazz Singer, the first full-length talking picture, is released.
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1930
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TAPE
3M ships the first roll of Scotch tape to a customer.
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1935
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George H. Gallup begins polling citizens.
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1938
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Broadcast of radio program based on H.G. Wells's War
of the Worlds announcing an attack on New Jersey
by Martian invaders.
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1939
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COLOR MOVIES
Full-length color films like The Wizard of Oz draw droves of moviegoers.
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1939
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TELEVISION
Commercial-grade TV wows the public at the New York World's Fair.
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1945
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MICROWAVE OVEN
Percy L. Spencer creates the microwave oven.
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1947
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POLAROID
Edwin Land introduces the Polaroid, the first instant camera.
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1947
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Abraham Levitt constructs the first suburban housing development,
on Long Island.
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1955
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Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
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1961
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Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, blasts TV programming as "a vast wasteland."
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1963
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Eastman Kodak introduces the Instamatic camera, which uses
a film cartridge.
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1965
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Engineer Ray Dolby develops a way to reduce background noise in recordings.
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1970s
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VIDEO GAMES
Video games put out by such makers as Nintendo invade the market for kids' games.
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1973
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The universal
product code and supermarket scanners begin to be used.
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1975
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VCR
The VCR is introduced and soon triggers a war between VHS and Betamax technologies.
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1979
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WALKMAN
Sony launches the Walkman personal stereo system.
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1980s
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PERSONAL COMPUTERS
Apple, Microsoft, and IBM launch the PC.
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1980
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Ted Turner creates CNN, the first all-news cable-TV channel.
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1980
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In-line skates
designed by
two hockey players.
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1990s
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WORLD WIDE WEB
The World Wide Web changes the way people search for information, shop, and conduct business.
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1992
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Mall of America,
the world's largest mall, opens.
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