Affluent Society Timeline

  • Eadweard Muybridge invents series photography

  • Taylor begins working at the Midvale Steel Company in Philadelphia, where he begins to develop his theories on scientific management.

  • Celluloid Roll Film is invented by Eastman Kodak

  • The first "Movie Studio" kinetoscope invented by Thomas Edison

  • Woodville Latham along with the Lumiere Brothers invent Cinematographe(Video Projection)

  • The Cabbage Fairy, the first functional film is released

  • Le Voyage dans La Lune is released, the first internationally distributed film

  • Opening of the Nickelodeon in Pittsburg, the first movie theater

  • Highland Park Plant (predecessor of the Ford Motor Company) opened and embraced “Taylorism”

  • The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor’s most famous work published.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • Los Angeles has replaced NYC as the center of the film business

  • WWI start; increased demand for goods; Taylor’s principles start getting implemented to increase efficiency

  • Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith is released