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." Airplane, permission from web pages written and designed by Gary bradshaw and hosted by Stee Wright, http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/ Punched Card, courtesy of Maxfield & Montrose Interactive, http://www.maxmon.com Photo of Holletith, promission by Lew Bornmann, http://mesa7.mesa.colorado.edu/~bornmann/ Machine, promission by Mark S. Csele, Niagara college, Canada Paintings, courtesy of Jim Grattan, Jim's Fine Art collection, http://www.spectrumvoice.com/art Photo of Thomas Edison, courtesy of http://www.edisonian.com Photo of President Harrison, courtesy of President Benjamin Harrison Michael Rapp