Part 3 events

By Bookclub
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    Second wave Industrial Revolution (began 1870)

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    Gilded Age (began 1870

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    Langley's experiments with "aerodrome" - flying machines

  • Hubbard establishes National Geographic Society

    or the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge
    'Alec calls it a "stuffy organization"
    -meetings every other Friday…and published a journal

  • first steel-skeleton skyscraper in NYC

  • Edison to purchase patents from Alec for phonograph improvement

    when phonograph put into commercial production

  • patented diesel engine

  • Marconi playing around with radio telegraphy

  • Henry Ford built his first car

  • Niagara Falls to power Buffalo's electric streetcars

  • Bert Grosvenor first full time employee (editor) of National Geographic

    Elsie's husband son of Dr Grosvenor (pg 332)

  • Queen Victoria's funeral in London (Mabel and Daisy watched)

    -symbolizing the end of an old era

  • Wilbur Wright 1st flight in a powered biplane "Kitty Hawk"

    -6 days after Langley's crashes into the Potomac

  • the word "genetics" started to be used

    -but Alec's studies came from his statistical work in late 1890s Pg 273

  • Scientific American offers trophy to fly 1 kilometer

    for the first public flight over 1 kilometer
    -race to fly biggest story in North America

  • First Montessori established in Canada (at Beinn Bhreagh)

    -after Alec visited Tarrytown (NY)school
    -and one was opened in DC
    -12 students (5 from Elsie, 2 from Daisy, and 5 from locals)
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    Montessori bandwagon rolled on

    • "learning by doing" approach

  • WWI - in Europe

  • German torpedo sank Cunard (cruise ship)

    -1000 lies lost, 124 were Americans

  • US declares war on Germany

  • Smithsonian displays the Freer art collection