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ASPE 2008 Great Engineering Feats Calendar
ASPE 2008
Great Engineering Feats
Calendar
sponsored by the
Friends and Supporters
of the
American Society of Plumbing Engineers Friend and Supporter of ASPE Patterson Pump Company
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Copyright � 2008 American Society of Plumbing Engineers. All rights reserved.
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Birthstone: Garnet
Flower: Carnation

National Blood Donor Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Hobby Month

Hot Tea Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Soup Month
National Thank You Month
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Great Engineering Feats For details see: www.greatachievements.org
1906 First air-conditioned hospital
1906 Patent filed for dew point control system
1907 Air-conditioning equipment installed in dining and meeting rooms
at Congress Hotel in Chicago
1907 First practical domestic vacuum cleaner
1907 Bakelite created
1907 Triode patented
1908 Model T introduced
1908 William Durant forms General Motors
1908 First solar collector
1909 Precipitation hardening discovered
1909 First commercially successful electric toaster
1910 First flight to take off from a ship
1910 First take off from a ship
1910 Asphalt manufactured from oil-refining byproducts
1910s Vacuum light bulbs
1911 Electric starter introduced
1912 Radio signal amplifier devised
1913 Mammography research
1913 First electric dishwasher on the market
1913 Los AngelesOwens River Aqueduct
1913 Southern California Edison brings electricity to Los Angeles
1913 High-pressure hydrogenation process developed
1913 First moving assembly line for automobiles developed
1913 First highway paved with portland cement
1913 Activated sludge process
1913 New method of oil refining
1913 First refrigerator for home use
1913 Hot cathode x-ray tube invented
1913 Stainless steel is rediscovered
1914 Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot
1914 First car body made entirely of steel
1914 Automatic gyrostabilizer demonstrated
1914 Sewerage Practice,Volume I: Design of Sewers
1914 Aircooled, electric, self-contained household refrigerating unit
is marketed
1914-1918 Dramatic improvements in structures and control and
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Birthstone: Amethyst
Flower: Violet

American Heart Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Black History Month
Canned Food Month
Creative Romance Month
Great American Pie Month
International Friendship Month
National Cherry Month

National Childrens Dental Health Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Wedding Month
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1915 Goddard establishes that it is possible to send a rocket to the
Moon
1915 The hydrophone developed
1915 First transcontinental telephone call
1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
1915 Pyrex
1915 New Catskill Aqueduct is completed
1915 Calrod developed
1916 Flash-freezing system for preserving food products developed
Great Engineering Feats For details see: www.greatachievements.org
1917 Wisconsin adopts road numbering system
1917 The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced
1917 First long-distance high-voltage transmission line
1917 Superheterodyne circuit
1917 Fordson tractor sells for $395
1917 Theory of stimulated emission
1918 American Harvestor manufactures the Ronning Harvestor
1918 Airmail service inaugurated
1919 MacDonald appointed head of federal Bureau of Public Roads
1919 Switching systems and rotary-dial telephones
1919 Formula for the chlorination of urban water
1919 First single foot pedal to operate coupled four-wheel brakes
1919 Passenger service across the English Channel introduced
1919 First automatic pop-up toaster
1919 U.S. Navy aviators make the first airplane crossing of the North
Atlantic
1920 Yellow traffic lights
1920 Frequency multiplexing concept
1920 First scheduled commercial radio programmer
1920s Fischer-Tropsch method
1920s Windmills used to drive generators
1920s High-pressure steam power plants
1920s First Plant to Reheat Steam
1920s-1940s Nylon, acrylics, and polyester are developed
1920s-1940s New compounds derived oil-refining byproducts enter
market
1921 First major aerial dusting of crops
1921 Lead added to gasoline
1922 First American car with four-wheel hydraulic brakes
1922 International Harvester introduces a power takeoff
1923 Uniform system of signs