The Harrington Family Web Site   Home Page  |   Current Interests  |   Family Photos  |   Fund Performance  |   MIDI Music Files  |   1941 Dodge Pickup American Century Also see the Good Wife's Guide published in 1955 by Housekeeping Monthly Here's everything you wanted to know (and probably more) about events of the past century.  I'd hoped to start on the 21st Century by now, but haven't done it yet. Click on a year to see what happened, along with some sample photos of vehicles, popular ads and electronics.  Key statistics appear at the bottom of each page.                       1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Guess the year these "firsts" occurred; then click on the event for the answer:           Animal Crackers Aspirin Tablet ATM Machine Automobile Air Bag Band-Aid Bar Codes Bubble Wrap CAT Scan Cellular Radio Cloned Vertebrate Color Television Compact Disk (CD) Computer Mouse Crossword Puzzle Dear Abby Column Digital Computer Duct Tape Egg McMuffin Einstein's E=mc² Electric Razor Email Service Fifty States Fly Swatter Food Stamps Gasoline Station Golf Tee Goodyear Blimp Hard Disk Drive Home Computer Home Microwave Hydraulic Brakes Ice Cream Cone Income Tax Jet Engine Laser Printer Magnetic Stripe Man in Space McD's Drive-thru Mobile TV Crew Nylon Stockings Paper Napkins Parking Meter Plastic Bag Police Handcuffs Pop-up Toaster Post-It Note Power Steering Pregnancy Test Quantum Theory Radio Contests Rap Music Rear-view Mirror Roller Blades Rubik's Cube Shopping Cart Shopping Mall Sliced Bread Sony Walkman Steam Iron String Theory Term "Robot" Term "Teenager" Term "Television" Tubeless Tire Wire Coat Hanger Wireless Phone Women's Bra Zipper               Land of the Free Home of the Brave Top of Page  |   Home Page  |  TheHarringtons