Centennial History - Facts from 1907
Inventions
First Domestic Vacuum Cleaner: James Spangler/William Hoover – 1907
Color Photography: Auguste & Louis Lumiere – 1907
First Synthetic Plastic (Bakelite): Leo Baekland – 1907
Births
Cesar Romero, Feb. 15
W.H. Auden, Feb 21
Mildred Bailey, Feb. 27
Imogene Holst, April 2
Kate Smith, May 1
Katherine Hepburn, May 12
Edythe Wright, May 14
Sir Lawrence Olivier, May 22
John Wayne, May 26
Rachel Carson, May 26
Frida Kahlo, July 6
Robert Heinlein, July 7
Barbara Stanwyck, July 16
Benny Carter, Aug. 8
Fay Wray, Sep. 15
Gene Autry, Sep. 29
Burgess Meredith, Nov. 16
Compay Segundo, Nov. 18
Cab Calloway, Dec. 25
Deaths
Dmitri Mendeleev, Feb 2
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, March 19
Joseph Joachim, Aug. 15
Edvard Grieg, September 4
Music Contemporaries (Age at time in parenthesis)
Alec Wilder
Dmitri Shostakovich (1)
Richard Rodgers (5)
Louie Armstrong (6)
Aaron Copland (7)
Kurt Weill (7)
Francis Poulenc (8)
Randall Thompson (8)
George Gershwin (9)
Paul Hindemith (12)
Carl Orff (12)
Walter Piston (13)
John Jacob Niles (15)
Cole Porter (16)
Sergei Prokofiev (16)
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton (17)
Irving Berlin (19)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (20)
Jerome Kern (22)
Zoltán Kodáy (25)
Igor Stravinsky (25)
Joaquin Turina (25)
Béla Bartók (26)
Ernest Bloch (27)
Ottorino Respighi (28)
Maurice Ravel (32)
Gustav Holst (33)
Charles Ives (33)
Arnold Schoenberg (33)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (34)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (35)
Scott Joplin (40)
Erik Satie (41)
Jean Sibelius (42)
Richard Strauss (43)
Claude Debussy (45)
Frederick Delius (45)
Edward MacDowell (47)
Gustav Mahler (47)
Giacomo Puccini (49)
Edward Elgar (50)
Charles Villiers Stanford (55)
Gabriel Fauré (62)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (63)
Charles-Marie Widor (63)
Max Bruch (69)
Camille Saint-Saëns (72)
Music
Sketch of a New Aestetic of Music, Book by Ferruccio Busoni
Gloria–Francesco Cilea
Songs of Sunset–Frederick Delius
Brigg Fair–Frederick Delius
The Wand of Youth–Edward Elgar
Symphony No 2 in C Minor–Reinhold Glière
A Somerset Rhapsody–Gustav Holst
Gladiolus Rag–Scott Joplin
Search Light Rag–Scott Joplin
Paolo e Francesca–Luigi Mancinelli
Quartet for Strings in D major–Ottorino Respighi
Le Coq d’Or–Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Stabat Mater–Charles Villiers Stanford
“Ballooning”, w. Alfred Bryan, m. Jerome Kern
“The Caissons Go Rolling Along” (Official Song of the U.S. Army), Edmund L. Gruber
“The Teddy Bears’ Picnic”, w. James B. Kennedy, m. John Walter Bratton
“Under Any Old Flag At All” by George Cohan
Other Arts
Ziegfeld Folliesof 1907
Picasso begins Art’s Cubist movement w/Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Louis B. Mayer (MGM) opens first movie theater
Variety publishes first movie review
Water Lilies Giverny #3–Claude Monet
The Snake Charmer–Henri Rousseau
Rube Goldberg begins career as cartoonist
First Daily newspaper comic strip–Mutt and Jeff
In the News
Maria Montessori opens first school and daycare center in Rome
Romanian Peasants’ Revolt
UPS Founded in Seattle, WA
First non-profit school in California (Polytechnic School)
Oklahoma becomes 46th State
Theodore Roosevelt in 2nd Term as President
US Population is 87,008,000
2nd Hague Peace Conference adopts 10 conventions on rules of war
Radiometric Dating finds Earth is 2.2 billion years old
Immigration to the US Peaks at 1.2 million in one year
Economy
Federal Spending – $0.58 billion
Unemployment – 2.8%
1st Class Stamp – $0.02
Bacon – $0.20 lb.
Butter – $0.33 lb
Eggs – $0.29 dozen
Sugar – $0.05 lb
Annual Teacher’s Salary Averaged $325.
Average worker makes $12.98 per week for 59 hours
$1 in 1907 has same purchasing power as $20.67 in 2005 (eh.net)
$0.05 in 1907 has same purchasing power as $1.00 in 2005
8,000 cars for 10 miles of paved roads
And here are a few things that have happened since 1907!
Inventions
Hershey's Kisses – 1907
Cellophane – 1908
Instant Coffee – 1909
Movies w/sound – 1910
Neon Lamp – 1910
Life Savers – 1912
Modern Zipper – 1913
Pop-up Toaster – 1919
Theremin – 1919
Band-Aid – 1920
Insulin – 1922
Traffic Signal – 1923
Television – 1923
Spiral Bound Notebooks – 1924
Aerosol Cans – 1927
PEZ Candy – 1927
Penicillin – 1928
Bubble Gum – 1928
Electric Shaver – 1928
Scotch Tape – 1930
Electric Guitar – 1931
Parking Meter – 1932
Stereo Records – 1933
Radar – 1935
Hammond Organ – 1935
Photocopier – 1937
Ballpoint Pen – 1938
Kidney Dialysis Machine – 1944
Microwave Oven – 1946
Transistor – 1947
Frisbee – 1948
Velcro – 1948
Wurlitzer Jukebox – 1948
Credit Card – 1950
Musical Synthesizer – 1953
Transistor Radio –1953
Liquid Paper – 1956
Microchip – 1959
Audio Cassette – 1962
Compact Disk – 1965
Handheld Calculator – 1967
Artificial Heart – 1969
ATM – 1969
VCR – 1971
Pong“1972
Cellular Phone – 1979
Walkman – 1979
IBM-PC – 1981
Economy
Federal Spending – $2,576 billion
Unemployment – 4.6%
1<sup>st</sup> Class Stamp – $0.39
Bacon – $3.390 lb. (2005)
Butter – $1.80 lb (2004)
Annual Teacher’s Salary Averaged $46,597 (2004).
Average worker makes $520 per week for 40 hours
$1 in 1907 has same purchasing power as $20.67 in 2005 (eh.net)
$0.05 in 1907 has same purchasing power as $1.00 in 2005
136,430,651 cars (Passenger cars only) for 2,578,000 miles of public paved roads (2004)
US Population is 281,421,906 (2000 Census)