1899

1896: henry ford built Quadricycle 1899: Henry joined Detroit Automobile Company 1903: Ford Motor Company is incorporated. 1904: Ford Motor Company of Canada is established 1907: Ford introduces the scripted typeface of its trademark. 1908: Model T is introduced. 1908: First overseas sales branch in Paris. 1913: Ford Assembly line in auto production is initiated. 1914: The famous $5 per day is instituted. 1917: Ford Motor Company first ever produces Ford Truck 1919: Edsel Ford succeeds…

Try and remember the last time you were in a store. There’s always a string of the weeks “top 40” songs, early 2000s boy band ballads, and 1980s one-hit wonders continuously playing over the speakers to amuse you while you shop. It’s difficult to pinpoint any time where you were not serenaded by the radio while you were out running errands. All of this is thanks to the invention of broadcast radio. Broadcast radio was by far one of the most important and revolutionary inventions, paving the way…

Despite being a brilliant and innovative businessman, he didn’t realize then that the future of Coca-Cola would be with portable, bottled beverages customers could take anywhere. In 1899, five years later, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead approached Candler about perhaps bottling the drink so it was available beyond the soda fountain. Thomas and Whitehead could essentially have the rights to bottle Coke…

Father’s Death? Prince hamlet disposes the duty of avenging his father upon himself but has a difficult time accomplishing the goal he had set out for himself, why? No concrete study could explain why it was so until Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory in 1899. Sigmund Frued’s theory indicated that young children have sexual feelings towards the opposite gendered parent called the Oedipus Complex. In Mark Robsen’s analysis of Hamlet he sees thinking external that could be hindering Hamlet’s…

Gustav Mahler gained the majority of his success in the later years of his life. Some of the work that made him famous where works written and performed closest the time of his death. His funeral was attended by a smaller group of people than many of the composers before him. Even his wife Alma Mahler was unable to attend due to doctor orders. Johannes Brahms died many years before Gustav Mahler. Since he didn’t have a wife and his close friend had already passed, the funeral was much smaller…

Imperialism- Imperialism is the policy of establishing colonies in countries that are less financially stable. They would use them to produce raw materials and expand their markets. The United States annexes in 1900 should be categorized as imperialism. Once the Americans settled in Hawaii, they began growing sugar and selling it to the United States Americans. Hawaii got the U.S. to agree to give the U.S. the favored-nation status. That allowed Hawaii to be able to have sugar imported to the…

Awakening is an interesting, but unsurprising series of frustrating events. The entire novel is not filled with disappointments though, as it firmly stands in the face of a society that, at the time, refused to properly respect women. For readers in 1899, the novel could be considered the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Awakening conveys a controversial, provocative message that both fails miserably and succeeds perfectly in its…

force of Christian civilization on this earth. The reason America fought in the war against the Spanish was to uplift humanity and show all men of this world that all men are created equal. Senator Beveridge shined a positive light on the annexation of the Philippines in his speech in Congress on January 9, 1900 when he brought up the topic of the consumption of our surplus. He stated that “China is our natural customer…England, Germany and Russia have moved nearer to China by securing permanent…

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) is known to many Americans as the leader of a swing-era dance band as well as a writer of pop tunes. Some musicians and jazz fans also know him as a major composer--arranger. In fact, there are musicologists and journalists who consider Ellington to be America's greatest composer, which puts him in a league with Charles Ives and Aaron Copland. Though many jazz fans think of Ellington as a pianist too, few scholars have examined how unique and original his approach to…

The Cryptic Murder of The Bordens Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she had saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In the children´s song that is quite dark and morbid, there is an actual story behind it. In the 1800´s, the Borden family was known as one of the families of the town to be of higher class with lots of land and money. Well, that name soon turned from a name that was respected, to one that was feared and full of questions. The mystery…