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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
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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
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Edison to purchase patents from Alec for phonograph improvement
when phonograph put into commercial production -
patented diesel engine
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Marconi playing around with radio telegraphy
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Henry Ford built his first car
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Niagara Falls to power Buffalo's electric streetcars
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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
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WWI - in Europe
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German torpedo sank Cunard (cruise ship)
-1000 lies lost, 124 were Americans -
US declares war on Germany
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Smithsonian displays the Freer art collection