Thursday, January 12, 2006

1920's

Did you know anthing about the 1920's?



Well let me tell you what i know.........






One of the most famous sport person in 1920's was Gertrude Ederle



She was born in October 23, 1906. She had won 3 Olympic medals and had broken several records. The most important thing about her was, she was only 19 when she swam across the English Channel. She show other woman that, woman can do anything.

http://www.msu.edu/~grawbur1/iahweb.html









3 inventions of 1920's

Tommy gun

Tommy gun or known as Thompson submachine gun was invented during 1920. The person who invented was General John T. Thompson. He invented this gun because; in WWI it was hard for the soldier to carry a big machinegun. Tommy gun became very useful during WWII.

http://www.nfatoys.com/tsmg/






Traffic light










Garrett Morgan invented the first traffic light, during 1923. Today without his invention, we will be having many cars accident and stuck with cars on the road.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgas_mask.htm




Liquid Fuel Rocket












Liquid Fuel Rocket was invented by Robert H. Goddard, during 1926. His Liquid fuel rocket Theory was still used by NASA for lunching rocket to space. One day we might even have space house on moon.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocket.htm









Famous Musician of 1920's





Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous musician during 1920’s. His Jazz music influence most of the black people, because of him many black people started to play music. This is the first stap with a black man, it means something to the black people.


http://www.southernmusic.net/louisarmstrong.htm




Life Changing Costumer Product

Robots








The first robot was built by Karel Capek, in 1921. He makes robots which provide benefit to people. Now days it become the life changing costumer product because in every house with kids at least have a robot troy.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa032197.htm









Famous Book

This is one of the most famous book during 1920's. It is the first book which was written about Miami Beach. Now days author started to use picture of places which help us see the setting of the story.

Technology Improvement

People started to use cars starting from 1920. Now a day look on the road people are moving to places with cars. It help people to transport easily from places to places.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920

Scientific Discovery

First pregnancy test was developed in Germany, by Aschheim-Zondek in 1928. Look people now days can easily know if they are pregnant or not because of all these test and prepare for the birth.

http://german.about.com/library/blfroschtest.htm

Famous Film

The First The Phantom of the Opera movie was producet in 1925.

It was still famous until today, because of these movies people these day has entertainment, and if you ask anyone in the world they might even kow it.

http://www.rense.com/1.cinehorror/bradslist.htm