History of Gifted Education

By sarah.bell

  • Industry- Eli Whitney Invented Cotton Gin

  • Computers- babbage analytical engine

  • Ist American Telegraph- By Finley Breese Morse

  • Congress spent $30,000 on telegraphs

  • Harris introduced gifted ed in schools

  • Galton- wrote Heredity Genius in Great Britain

  • Alexander bell invented telephone

  • Edison invented phonoggaph

  • Edison invented light bulb

  • Binet's IQ Test

  • Charles Duryea invented automobile

  • George Eastman - 1st portable camera

  • Orville & Wilbur Wright - first flight

  • Gas powered automobile - Henry Ford

  • Suffrage Parade

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    1910-1920

  • Sinking of the Titanic

  • Titanic Sank

  • Ford installs first moving assembly line

  • Panama Canal Opens

  • Sinking of Lusitania

  • Prohibition

  • Girl Scouts Formed

  • National Parks Service formed

  • 1st Radio Broadcast

  • 1st Miss America Contest

  • Leta Hollingworth

    made early contributions to counseling the gifted "emotional education"... as they are highly intelligent, they are also highly vulnerable

  • Yankee Stadium built

  • Great Gatsby published

  • Prohibition

  • Babe Ruth sets new HR record

  • Steamboat Willy released by Disney

  • The Great Depression

    Great Depression made people focus on survival and equity, not on enhancing education for gifted children.
  • Period: to

    Faulkner's great period

  • Period: to

    Films

    GWTW, Grapes of Wrath, Wizard of Oz, Dracula and Frankenstein.
  • Period: to

    Bikini introduced

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    WWII innovations

    Radar was developed, atomic bomb, jet aircraft, ballistic missles, increased viability of tanks.

  • Hoovercraft Invented

  • NASA created

  • American Express introduced first plastic credit card

  • Portable Music Player

  • Development of 8-track and cassette tape

  • Bob Dylan's music was popular.

  • Elton John's and Cat Steven's music was popular.

  • 26th Amendment

    Voting age changed from 21 to 18.

  • VCR invented

  • First Word Processor

  • Laser Printer invented

  • Ink Jet Printer is invented.

  • 1st artificial heart invented.

  • First Cell Phone

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    Computers

  • IBM PCs became popular in a lot of households

  • the internet was invented by the US Department of Defense

  • Apple McIntosh invented

  • Fuji introduced the disposable camera

  • Digital cellular phones invented

  • Tim Berners-Lee proposes a 'hypertext' system, which is the start of the Internet as we know today

  • Period: to

    Computers