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||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. | ||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. | ||
File:LED_Traffic_Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic light]] is installed. | |||
File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|1920: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]] born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. | File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|1920: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]] born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. | ||
Revision as of 08:01, 22 June 2017
1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.