1910 to 1920 Timeline Outline

8468 New Books are Published in the U.K.
(1910)

Principia Mathematica
(1910 – 1913)

George Owen Squier Invents Telephone Carrier Multiplexing
(1910)

Hollerith Sells the Tabulating Machine Company to Flint
(1911)

A Mechanical Punched-Card Tabulating System
(1911)

Management of Water Pollution
(1911)

"Die Brucke" and its Goals for a World Information Clearing House
(June 11, 1911 – 1913)

C-T-R
(June 16, 1911)

The First Decision-Making Automaton
(1912 – 1915)

20,000 Calculators
(1912)

"Ridgway Colors"
(1912)

How the Quipu System of Mathematical Record-Keeping Worked
(1912)

The Theory of Continental Drift
(1912)

"Our Vanishing Wild Life"
(1913)

The First European Work on Theoretical Astronautics
(1913 – 1934)

Moseley's Law in X-Ray Spectra
(1913 – 1914)

The Armory Show Introduces "Modern Art" to the United States
(February 17 – March 15, 1913)

The Structure and Dynamics of the Atom
(July – November 1913)

Thomas J. Watson President of CTR
(1914)

Teletype Invented
(1914)

Auditing Circulation
(1914)

Invention of the Regenerative Circuit
(1914)

Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts
(1914)

Summarizing the State of the Computer Industry Prior to World War I
(July 24 – July 27, 1914)

World War I Begins
(August 1 – August 3, 1914)

Destruction of the University Library at Leuven
(August 25, 1914)

The Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem
(1915)

The First Transcontinental Telephone Call
(January 25, 1915)

The First National Opinion Poll?
(1916)

Plant Succession
(1916)

General Relativity
(1916)

Napoleon's Penis, and Other Napoleon Memorabilia
(1916 – 1924)

The Standard Work on Hot-Metal Casting and Composition
(1916)

The Proclamation of the Irish Republic
(April 23, 1916)

The Basis for Computed Tomography
(1917)

Invention of SONAR
(1917)

Foundation of Barnes & Noble
(1917)

The Russian Revolution
(October 1917)

Coordinating National Standards Development
(October 19, 1918)

The End of World War I
(November 11, 1918)

Early Versions of the Enigma
(1919)

800,000 Burroughs Calculators Have Been Sold
(1919)

6,292 Different Incunabula in North American Libraries
(1919)

The Theremin
(1919)

The Earliest Practical Treatise on the Development of Rocketry for Space Flight
(1919 – March 16, 1926)

The First Experimental Proof of General Relativity
(November 6, 1919)