Inventions and events since (before) beginning of Cushing, Oklahoma
DATES

1834: Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1888 Gordon Lillie "Pawnee Bill" began touring the world; later joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
1893: Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1895: First automobile race
1897: Outlaw Al Jennings and his gang robbed the Crozier and Nutter store, in Cushing, of $15.
1900: zeppelin; redesigned modern escalator.
1901 :double-edged safety razor
1903: 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1905: fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1906: first Cushing High School graduates; Olympics Athens; first radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, to ships offshore in the Atlantic Ocean; President Roosevelt visited Panama Canal construction site; pork sausage on a bun becomes the snack of choice at baseball games. Chicago cartoonist, Thomas "Tad" Dorgan depicts them as a dachshund inside a frankfurter bun, and dubs them "hot dogs".
1907 : November 16, 1907, the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory joined, and Oklahoma became the 46th state; electric washing machine;Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2 degrees F - Tamarack CA

1908 : coffee filter; water coolers; paper cups; assembly line production
1910 : neon lamps; Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1911 : stenotype machines
1912: Oreo cookies; Tom Slick and C. B. Shaffer, discovered oil in Cushing. The Cushing field became one of the greatest oil discoveries of the early 1900's - ranking as the nation's largest oil province for the next eight years.
1913 : Brillo pads; crossword puzzles; bras; zips
1915 :Kraft cheese; The familiar hobbleskirt Coca Cola bottle, still in use today, was patented and came in a variety of colors: clear, aqua, ice blue, and green; By 1915, the nationally known Cushing Oil field produced more than 300,000 barrels per day amounting to 17% of total quantity of oil marketing in the U.S. or 30% of the output of high grade oil..
1916 :"Good Luck" store on the corner of Steele & Main; sonar; Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1919 : Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill;1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 : hair dryers; kiss-proof lipstick; submachine guns
1921 : robots; insulin
1922 : Aga cooker
1923 : hearing aids; Harry Houdini frees self from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC; Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1924 : frozen food
1925 : Cushing Daily Citizen newspaper began; Geiger counter; television; 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca was 8 months old)
1926 : Walters Furniture store began. At the time funerals and undertaking were also part of the business and a funeral chapel was located inside as well; liquid fuel rocket; pop-up toaster; aerosol sprays
1927 : Koolaid; ?Talkies? at the movies; 1st Ryders Cup (Golf), US beats England 9-2
1928 : iron lung; penicillin;1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford); Amelia Earhart is 1st woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air
1929 : artificial life; 1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1930 : jet engine; mechanical toothbrushes; Scotch tape
1931 : electric razor
1932 : "Cook Book" by The Women's Council of the First Christian Church, Cushing, OK; radio telescope; parking meter; folding wheelchair; Cushing graduate Robert E. "Bob" Pearce won a gold medal in the bantamweight class at the 1932 Olympics
1933 : Miracle Whip salad dressing; electron microscope; angle-poise lamp
1934 : Inmate Theodore Cole of Stroud, OK abducted Cushing, Oklahoma farmer, James Rutherford, at gunpoint and forced the man to drive him to Illinois, violating federal kidnapping statutes. Cole was sent first to Leavenworth and transferred to Alcatraz in October 1935. He attempted an escape from Alcatraz; not a trace has ever been found of him.
1935 : electric guitar
1936 : Jello pudding introduced; sun tan lotion; electric blanket
1938 : ballpoint pen; photocopying;1938 Chlorophyll patented 1939 : helicopters; cloud seeding to trigger rain
1941 : Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice traveled to Hugo, Oklahoma to defend W.D. Lyons, a black man accused of killing a couple and their young child, then burning down their house
Representing the Defendant with him was Stanley Belden, Cushing Oklahoma.
1942 : first nuclear reactor built; Napalm
1943 : aqualung
1944 : kidney dialysis machine
1946 : microwave ovens; automation; Bikini; Tupperware; Tupperware Parties
1947 : 1947-KWHP in Cushing, Oklahoma, was established; transistors; holograms; artificial intelligence; disposable nappy; mobile phones
1948 : frisbees; velcro; general purpose computers; contact lenses
1950 : credit cards; self-cleaning house; junction transistor; outbreak of the Korean War
1951 : contraceptive pill; Tetrapak cartons of milk; 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1952 : wide-screen cinema
1953 : transistor radio; 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1954 : solar cell; synthesiser
1955 : hovercraft; atomic clock; polio vaccine; structurally modified antibiotics;1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower); first automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 : video tape recorder
1957 : satellite; endoscope
1958 : video games; microchip; modems
1959 : car seat belts
1960 : cardiac pacemaker; laser
1961 : Man in Space; Valium
1963 : lava lamp
1964 : computer mouse; miniskirt
1965 : optical disc; bay buggy; HTML
1966 : kevlar; fibre optics; pocket television
1967 : portable calculator
1968 : biometrics; Workmate; artificial heart
1969 : the Internet; cash dispenser
1970 : LED and LCD?s1971 : floppy disc
1972 : Prozac; disposable lighter
1973 : Cuisinart introduced the food processor; genetic engineering; barcodes; post-it-note; car airbags
1975 : personal computer; laser printer
1977 : In vitro fertilisation; MRI scanner; inkjet printer
1979 : first personal stereo
1980 : abortion pill; Hepatitis B vaccine
1981 : "The Long Summer of George Adams" a" made-for-television" movie, set in Cushing, OK, 1952....starring James Garner and Joann Hackett,centers around the water tower in the town of Cushing; scanning tunnelling microscope
1986 : high temperature superconductor
1987 : disposable contact lenses
1989 : World Wide Web

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