Technology
- Pathé Frères colorise black-and-white films by machine.
- Alfred Buchi files a patent for the turbocharger.
- Paul de Vivie invents a two-speed rear-wheel derailleur gear for bicycles.
- Pipe manufactures the first automobile with a hemi engine.
- Walter Griffiths invents a manually powered domestic vacuum cleaner.
- Reginald Fessenden invents the superheterodyne receiver.
- First bascule bridge to the design of Joseph Strauss built.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)