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Modification of hocky played in Belgium. Believed to be the origin of golf
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The Gutenberg Press perfects the type pieces with metal casting. Uses mechanical force to drive press straight down. Dramatically expands the distribution of documents
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Golf banned in Scotland because it was interfering with military training
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Ban on golf lifted after the Treaty of Glasgow between England and Scotland was signed
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1st round of golf at St. Andrews
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Queen of Scotland, Mary takes up golf after the death of her husband.
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Golf is banned in New York- first reference to golf in America
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First golf match reported in the newspaper
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St. Andrews - first tournament to be played as stroke play. Previously all match play
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South Carolina Golf Club in Charleston. First outside of the UK.
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Frech Emperor
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First record of women's competitve golf
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First female golf club for women - at St. Andrews
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Bell receives first US patent for voice telegraph (the telephone).
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Edison receives first US patent for audio recording and reproduction (phonography).
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Edison receives first US patent for full motion photograph and reproduction (Kinetoscope).
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Nathan Stubblefield FIRST invetnts radio technology but doesn't patent until 1908 - too late.
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Chicago Golf Club opens the first US18-hole golf course.
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First NCAA golf competition
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"Golf", the first US golf magazine published.
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Event played that evolved into the PGA Tour
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Golf as an Olympic sport in Paris
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Radio utilized as tool after this event.
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Radio personality - goat gland
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Radio emerging at fast rate. Radio music box. Amature run stations. RCA creates NBC.
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Like net nutrality today. Hoover afraid radio would be destroyed by ads.
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Hoover/Congress - not much happens
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Radio advertising creates a new market, new profit centers, growing audience, competition for channels, demand for regulation
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Helps economy, creates jobs. Acceptance of public service/propaganda & advertising
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Federal Radio Commission - temp. agency. All licences impounded and redestributed.
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Philo Farnsworth invents world's first electric TV - patent
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First Masters tournament. Front/back 9's reversed.
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British Prime Minister
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Clement Greenberg wrote a letter to The Nation as part of contemporary art debate. The Nation refused to publish his letter so he then had it published in The New Leader and The Nation sued him for $200,000 for libel. http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7ACGW_en&biw=1280&bih=631&tbm=isch&tbnid=OCNpWtqRGnaQnM:&imgrefurl=http://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio.html&docid=-rZ4NX1SrcFTEM&imgurl=http://www.lorenmunk.com/images/clement_greenberg_large.j
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Jackson Pollock dies after crashing his car while driving drunk. Six years of alcoholism followed completion documentary filmed.
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Marconi first demonstrates wireless technology after scamming off everyone else's ideas.
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I was born!
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China- 8th century
Japan- 9th century
Korea- 10th century
