The Vacuum Tube  late 1800s - early 1900s Thomas Eidison: Light Bulb (1884) John Fleming: Valve (1904) Lee DeForest: Audion Tube (1906) Henry Ford: Automobile (1896) 1898 Spanish American War 1899 Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris World Exhibition. 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first piloted flight on a powered airplane. 1908 The Ford Motor Company produces the Model T. Brooklyn Bridge, Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Sholes & Glidden type writer, courtesy of Darryl Rehr Light Bulb, Courtesy of the Natioanl Museum of aerican History, Princeton University Royal precision vacuum tube computer & computer workstation, courtesy of computer museum of America, http://www.computer-museum.org   Sherry McCollom