Punched Cards: Herman Hollerith  late 1800s - early 1900s Thomas Alva Edison: The light bulb (1884) Marie Curie: Radium (1898) Orville and Wilbur Wright: The first airplane (1903) Albert Eistein: Theory of Special Relativity (1905) 1888 George Eastman perfects the handheld Kodak camera. 1884 Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1892 Ellis Island opens as a center to screen immigrants. 1899 In School and Society, philosopher John Dewey outlines his ideas about "progressive education." Photo of Hollerith, ibmformat, courtesy of http://www.maxmon.com Promenade, courtesy of http://www.costumes.org Largepunch, courtesy of http://www2.compududes.com Ozgur Ozer