During the Agricultural Age it was important for families to stay and live together due to the need for survival. Farming, hunting and gathering were vital to everyday living.
During the second wave, Industrial Age, more and more factories opened and more people left their homes to work in the factories.
Alexander Graham Bell, founder of the telephone company that would eventually become American Telephone and Telegraph. In the late 1800's AT&T was the only telephone provider. In 1892, AT&T opened the first line between New York and Philadelphia, which was the first long distance line. In 1915 the first intercontinental system opened, allowing calls across the country. AT&T was responsible for the first live TV program, the transister in 1947 which evolved to the personal computer.
Thomas Edison opened the first light company.
George Westinghouse created the Westinghoouse Electric Company in 1884. Westinghouse was different from Edison; Westinghouse was a proponent for alternating current which allows air flow to go either direction instead of just one. Westinghouse built execution chairs. He also built three large generataors that helped give electricity to Niagara Falls an example of hydro-electric power. In 1905 Westinghouse created the first locomotive to run on AC power. Westinghouse is also responsible in creating air-filled shock absorbers.
Thomas Edison merges all of his businesses into one, General Electric. General Electric was responsible for not only giving electricity, but for also inventing household appliances like the toaster and the vaacum. General Electric was also responsible for the phonograph and in 1906 was responsible for the first radio broadcast.
John Dewey was a progressive liberal, which began the humanistic movement.
The first radio receiver was able to successfully receive a radio transmission.
In 1901 John W. Nordstrom and Carl Wallin open a shoe store in Seattle called Wallin and Nordstrom. Eventually when John W. Nordstrom's son's take over the business it is called Nordstrom's and they begin selling women's clothing too.
President McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901. Everyone thought that he was going to live even though they could not get one of the bullets out; however, on September 14, 1901 he died of complications. McKinley's Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumed presidency.
The battery was one of many inventions that changed how life exits today.
Most everyone was skeptical that the polygraph could predict if someone was telling a lie, but it was the beginning of opening a new realm of what might be possible.
The first silent movie, "The Great Train Robbery," was 12 minutes long and it actually told a story through the pictures. The first narrative film was produced by Thomas Edison.
Henry Ford launched his first company in Detroit in 1903. In October of 1908, the first Model T car came off the assembly line cotsting $950.00. Due to the popularity of the cars he was able to open his first moving assembly line in 1914 in Highland Park Michigan. It could produce a car every 93 minutes.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright create the first plane.
The Child Labor Law was to prevent children from being used as a means for labor and work.
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and the famous equation, E = mc2.
Alfrd Binet's article, "New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals," is published in France.
Carnegie Unit is still used today as what we associate with as "seat time."
The United States and Japan completed a verbal agreement that each gave the other their word that U.S. would not take any new immigrants from Japan and Japan would not issue any new passports to those wishing to leave and go to U.S,
The first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
Henry Ford produced the first assembly line.
The first Model T was sold by Henry Ford, Ford Dealership.
Due to the lyching of African American's and the violence in Springfield, Illinois a group of sixty people gathered and formed NAACP.
The 16th Amendment was a progressive movement to put a 3% tax on income.
Boy Scouts was first founded in England, but in 1910 W.D. Boyce incorporated it in America.
Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture in 1910.
NPRL, an organization that was created to extend the progressive movement throughout time and history.
Montessori school is founded and then the idea is brought to the United States. The first Montessori school in the U.S. opens in Tarrytown, New York three years later in 1913.
Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
Edward Lee Thorndike's book, "Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning, is published, describes his theory of Connectionism.
U.S. Department of Labor was relunctantly enacted from the results of the progressive movement.
Woodrow Wilson appoints William B. Wilson as Secretary of State. This action was thought to be justified because William B. Wilson had once worked as a mine worker would have insight to help stop the sweatshop strikes and violence.
The antitrust legislatin prohibited unfair business practices.
Safeway grocery stores originally consisted of two independent grocery stores, Skaggs Cash Stores and Sam Seelig Company. Marios Skaggs purchased his father's stores and then later when he merged his stores with the Seelig Co. they called the stores Safeway Grocery.
John Wegman worked for his parents when they opened a food stand in New York. Later he opened the Rochester Fruit and Vegtable Company. Later his bother decided to get involved and they opened another grocery store and they began to broaden the items they sold and eventually the name changed to Wegmans Food Market.
Radio tuners for the first time were able to receive different stations.
The United States enters into World War I.
Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the superhterodyne radio circuit which was used in all FM radios to eliminate the static.
Progressive Education Association is founded to reform the American education system.
A peace treaty that ended World War I.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
In 1921 L.S. Lowe opened a hardware store in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina and upon his death his son's took over the family business. During World War II his the wives operated the business while the men served their country. Whe the son's came back they were able to open a second store and due to the boom in the economy quickly they opened a third.
The innovation of insulin in 1922 has been proven to help diabetes. Insulin has allowed people who have diabetes to live a normal life by using insulin.
Insulin was invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Walt Disney signed a contract for M.J. Winkler to produce a series of cartoons. This was the beginning of Walt Disney's success.
The television or also called iconoscope invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
The Gestalt Theory is the beginning of thinking about Cognitive Learning Theory in regards to education.
The first Money Trial happens in 1925 and it is brought up again many times throughout history.
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