Portrait of Dad's First Decade

The Cars

The Fashion

Inventions

• Traffic Light
• Zipper
• Fridge
• Telephone
• Safety Razor
• Radio
• Vacuum Cleaner
• Teddy Bear
• Crayons
• Gas Motored Airplane
• Wind Shield Wipers
• Air Conditioner
• Teabags
• Tractor
• E=mc2
• Cornflakes
• Helicopter
• Model T

The  Timeline

1910 

• Union of South Africa established
• Japan annexes Korea
• Revolution overthrows Portuguese monarchy
• Boy Scouts of America and Campfire Girls are founded
• Radon discovered
• Deaths of Edward VII, nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, writers Mark Twain, O. Henry and Tolstoy and painter William Holman Hunt

1911 

• "Agadir crisis" brings France and Germany to the brink of wa.
• Manchu dynasty overthrown in China and a republic established 
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire leads to reforms in building codes and labor laws
• First electric self-starter for automobiles
• First air conditioner invented
• Italy annexes Libya
• Amundsen beats Scott to the South Pole
• Assassination of Russian Premier Peter Stolypin
• Deaths of composer Mahler and writer/librettist W.S.Gilbert

1912

• U.S. Public Health Service is established
• Arizona becomes the 48^th state
• Albania declares its independence
• Woodrow Wilson elected as U.S. president
• Sinking of the Titanic
• First use of zippers in clothing

1913

• Panama Canal completed
• Ford Motor Company introduces moving assembly line

1914

• Ireland on the brink of civil war
• Outbreak of World War I
• Anglo-French forces halt German advance at Battle of the Marne
• U.S. Federal Trade Commission established
• Panama Canal opens

1915

• Fist use of poison gas in warfare
• Liner Lusitania sunk by German U-boat
• Japan’s "Twenty-One Demands"? an attempt to reduce China to a protectorate
• Deaths of poet Rupert Brooke and educator Booker T. Washington

1916 

• Battle of Jutland — major naval engagement of World War I
• Battle of the Somme
• First use of tanks in war
• Abortive " Easter Uprising" in Dublin
• Arab revolt against Ottoman rule
• Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
• Woodrow Wilson reelected as U.S. president
• Deaths of writers Henry James and Jack London

1917

• The United States enters World War I
• Revolution in Russia forces tsar’s abdication
• Italian armies collapse at Caporetto
• Finland proclaims independence
• Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. territory
• Deaths of showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody, painter Edgar Degas and sculptor Auguste Rodin

1918

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends war between Bolshevik Russia and Central Powers
• Civil war in Russia leads to murder of tsar and his family
• President Woodrow Wilson proposes Fourteen Points, a plan for world peace
• Austria becomes a Republic
• T.E. Lawrence leads Arabs into Damascus
• Germany accepts terms of Allied armistice
• Deaths of composer Claude Debussy, and poet Joyce Kilmer

1919

• Communist rising crushed in Germany
• Treaty of Versailles signed in Paris
• Amritsar massacre — British forces kill unarmed Indian demonstrators
• First airline links established between London and Paris
• Alcock and Brown fly the Atlantic nonstop
• Paris Peace Conference redraws European frontiers
• Worldwide influenza epidemic
• White Sox' scandal