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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was an American inventor (also known as the Wizard of Menlo Park) whose many inventions revolutionized the world. His work includes improving the incandescent electric light bulb and inventing the phonograph, the phonograph record, the carbon telephone transmitter, and the motion-picture projector. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml -
A ballpoint marker had been invented much earlier but Loud’s marker leaked, making it impractical for everyday use. A new type of ink had to be developed; this is what the Biro brothers did. The brothers patented their invention and then opened the first ballpoint manufacturing plant in Argentina, South America.
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The Homestead Steel Strike in western Pennsylvania turned into a ferocious day-long battle between Pinkerton men and townspeople.
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Rutherford B. Hayes, who became president following the disputed election of 1876, died in Ohio at the age of 70.
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A decline in the New York stock market triggered the Panic of 1893, which led to an economic depression second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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The U.S. Congress designated the first Monday of September as a legal holiday, Labor Day, to mark the contributions of labor, in part as a peace offering to the labor movement following the crackdown on the Pullman Strike.
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He was an American engineer and industrialist who used the first conveyor belt-based assembly lines in his car factory, revolutionizing factory production. Ford manufactured affordable cars and paid high wages to his factory workers, allowing workers to buy the cars they made. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml -
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry.
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invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape (also called cellophane tape or Scotch tape). Drew was an engineer for the 3M company (the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing). -
Fitzgerald's own tempestuous relationship with his wife Zelda would be reflected in his many short stories and novels, first serialised in such literary journals as Scribner's and the Saturday Evening Post. Their lives are a classic study of the American Dream in all its highs, lows, excesses, and joys. http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
The popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. Epperson also invented the twin popsicle (with two sticks so it could be shared by two children), Fudgsicle, Creamsicle, and Dreamsicle. -
Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1908. The first bags were made from silk. Sullivan was a tea and coffee merchant in New York who began packaging tea sample in tiny silk bags, but many customers brewed the tea in them (the tea-filled bag was placed directly into the boiling water where the tea brewed, instead of the traditional way of brewing loose tea in a teapot).https://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml -
During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement.https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
He was the 31st president. He created an experiment called the "noble experiment" which was a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-prohibitionspeakeasy.html -
Dickson perfected the BAND-AID® in 1920, making a small, sterile adhesive bandage for home use. Dickson invented the BAND-AID® for his wife, who had many kitchen accidents and needed an easy-to-use wound dressing. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml -
These bars, which were also called blind pigs or blind tigers, were often operated by organized crime members.
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Examining the morality of, and trials and tribulations of, early twentieth century youth, Fitzgerald's voice spoke to many of his contemporaries. He gained much esteem from fellow authors including Ring Lardner and Ernest Hemingway, although years later Hemingway would viciously criticise him.http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
The Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in Rome, where he revised The Great Gatsby; they were en route to Paris when the novel was published in April. The Great Gatsby marked a striking advance in Fitzgerald’s technique, utilizing a complex structure and a controlled narrative point of view.https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The powdered drink Kool-Aid was invented in 1927 by the chemist Edwin Perkins of Nebraska Omaha. The Kool-Aid factory later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and was bought by General Foods Corporation in 1953. -
Fitzgerald continued to use his wife's mental breakdowns and their overall dysfunctional relationship in his writings including "The Last of the Belles" (1929), "Babylon Revisited" (1930), "Emotional Bankruptcy" (1931), "Crazy Sunday" (1932), and "Trouble" (1937). Back in America in 1931, Fitzgerald went to California to work on scripts for the Metro Goldwyn Meyer film company. http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chips (and chocolate chip cookies) in 1930. Her original cookies used broken-up bars of semi-sweet chocolate. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml -
F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure.
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. The Great Gatsby, a work that seriously examines the theme of aspiration in an American setting, defines the classic American novel.
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The 1936-1937 period is known as “the crack-up” from the title of an essay Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The first phase of the Fitzgerald resurrection “revival” does not properly describe the process that occurred between 1945 and 1950.http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/
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