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| A cross
reference for certain events or inventions took place. Sometimes
dance treatise or manuals do not give dates but give clues by mentioning
an invention or event. |
Name |
Origin |
Date |
Inventor |
See Also |
| 3 D Film |
n/a |
1922 |
?? |
?? |
| Airplane, the |
Ohio |
1903 |
Oriville and Wilbur Wright |
?? |
| AM Radio |
USA |
1906 |
Lee De Forest |
?? |
| Automobile (steam) |
Paris |
1769 |
Nicolas Cugnot |
also: 1st auto accident |
| Automobile (Gas) |
Germany |
1885 |
Karl Benz & Gottleib Daimler |
(later became
Mercedes-Benz) |
| Baroque Era |
Italy |
1600-1750 |
Claudio Monteverdi 1613 |
Bach, Handel, Opera, |
| Bicycle |
Scotland |
1839 |
Scot Kirkpatrick MacMillan |
1945-Jean Theson-4 wheel |
Bowler hat
|
?? |
1849 |
Thomas & William Bowler
|
?? |
Brassiere
|
?? |
1914 |
Mary Phelps Jacob
|
(Patented in 1914) |
Camera (flexible roll film)
|
?? |
1888 |
George Eastmann |
?? |
| Chamber Music |
Germany |
1450 |
?? |
"Home Music", Song |
| Chic (The term) |
USA |
1910's |
Introduced by Lady Duff-Gordon |
Ziegfeld, Fashions |
| Chinese Exclusion Act |
USA |
5/6/1882 |
USA |
?? |
| Circus (Ancient) |
Rome |
1st Century |
Nero, Julius Ceasar |
Circus Maximus, Arena |
| Circus (Modern) |
England |
1768 |
Philip Astley |
Ricketts, Astley's |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
USA |
7/2/1964 |
House of Representatives |
?? |
| Classical Era |
Austria |
1700's |
Haydn, Mozart |
?? |
| Cocaine Use |
S. America |
1850s |
first used in Elixers 1900's |
?? |
| Computer |
England |
1822 |
Charles Babbage |
Bernoulli Numbers, William Burrough, Sir Issac Newton, (ENIAC-USA) |
| Electronic Music |
Massachusetts |
1895 |
Thaddeus Cahill |
Luigi Russolo, Harry Olsen |
| first African American Woman to fly an airplane |
USA |
1922 |
Bessie Coleman |
Lindbergh, |
| FM Radio |
USA |
1941 |
Edwin Howard Armstrong |
AM Radio, |
| Fugitive Slave Act |
USA |
9/18/1850 |
House of Representatives |
?? |
| Fugue |
France |
1330 |
Jacques de Liege |
Fuga, Bach, |
| Helicopter |
Germany |
1937 |
Focke-Achgelis |
Igor Sikowsky-usa-1939 |
| Hollywood |
Hollywood, CA. |
1887 |
Named & Co-Founded by Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge |
?? |
| Homestead Act |
USA |
5/20/1862 |
House of Representatives |
?? |
| Leotard |
France |
1860s |
Jules Léotard (dancer) |
Dance Wear, Acrobatic, Ballet |
| Meistersingers |
Germany |
1100's A.D. |
Middle Class |
"Master Singers," Minstrels |
| Metronome |
?? |
1810 |
Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, later Maelzel in 1816 |
?? |
| microphone (Carbon) |
London |
1878 |
David Edward Hughes |
?? |
| Middle Ages |
?? |
A.D. 500 and 1450 |
?? |
?? |
| Minnesingers |
Germany |
1100's A.D. |
Aristocracy |
"Love Singers," Minstrels |
| Minstrels |
Europe |
600's A.D. |
Goliards |
Troubadours, Minnesingers, Meistersingers |
| Modern Era (music) |
France/Vienna |
1900 |
Claude Debussy, |
?? |
| Monroe Doctrine |
USA |
12/2/1823 |
|
?? |
| Morse Code |
USA |
1835 |
Samuel F.B. Morse |
?? |
| Motion Pictures |
USA |
1877 |
Eadweard Muybridge (12 Cameras) |
Filmed Horses Hooves |
| Motion Pictures |
France? |
1882 |
Etienne-Jules Marey (Single Camera) |
?? |
| Motion Picture-Closeups |
USA |
1903 |
Edwin S. Porter |
Great Train Robbery |
| Motion Picture Studio |
USA |
2/1/1893 |
Thomas Edison |
?? |
| Motion Picture Theater |
USA |
4/14/1894 |
Thomas Edison |
?? |
| MotorCycle (steam) |
France |
1869 |
n/a |
?? |
| Music |
Mesopotamia |
2355 B.C. |
Sumerians, Babylonians |
(real, not two sticks hit together). |
| Musical Notation |
Italy |
800 B.C. |
n/a |
Hymn in Stone |
| Musical Theater |
France |
10,000 B.C. |
Early Man |
?? |
| Opera (music) |
Florence |
1597 |
*Peri Dafne*, also Jacopo Corsi, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Jacopo Peri, Tasso, |
?? |
| Phonograph |
USA |
11/20/1877 |
Thomas Edison |
Leon Scott |
| Phonograph - 33 1/3 |
USA |
1931 |
RCA (Beethoven Fith) |
?? |
| Phonograph, Classical |
USA |
1888 |
Josef Hofmann |
?? |
| Phonograph, Dance |
|
1888 |
Hans Von Bulow (Mazurka) |
Chopin |
| Phonograph Disc |
USA |
1887 |
Emile Berliner |
?? |
| Phonograph, Symphonic |
New York |
1888? |
Hans Von Bulow (Beethoven's #3) |
?? |
| Photography (fixed) |
France |
1826 |
Joseph-Nicephore Niepce & Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre |
1802-Thomas Wedgwood
(faded) |
| Radio Broadcast, First |
USA |
12/24/1906 |
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden |
?? |
| Romantic Era (music) |
Germany |
1803 |
Beethoven |
?? |
| Rosa Parks Arrest |
Alabama |
12/1/1955 |
James F Blake, the bus driver who had her arrested. |
Rosa Parks |
| Saxophone |
n/a |
1844 |
Adolphe Sax |
?? |
| Slow Motion Techniques |
France |
1900 |
Georges Meleis |
Dissolve, Fade In/Out |
| Soap |
Phoenicia |
600 B.C. |
n/a |
(goat fat & Wood Ash) |
| Sonata (music) |
1561 |
Italy |
Suite of dances for Lute. |
Sonare, Cantata |
| Sousaphone |
1890s? |
n/a |
Tuba named after John Phillip Sousa |
Tuba, Sousa |
| Spacecraft |
10/4/1957 |
Russia |
Sputnik I |
usa-1/31/1958 |
| Satr Spangled Banner |
1931 |
USA |
Became USA National Anthem in 1931. |
?? |
| Stereo |
France |
1881 |
Clement Alder |
Telephone, Radio |
| Stereo, First Recording |
USA |
3/12/1932 |
Bell Labs (Poem Of Fire) |
Leopold Stokowski |
| Teenager (the word) |
USA |
?1930's? |
said to be first used in 1930's |
?? |
| Telegraphy |
Switzerland |
1792 |
Claude Chappe |
Morse, Joseph Henry |
| Telegraphy, Wireless |
Italy |
1894 |
Gugliemo Marconi |
Hertz |
| Telephone |
USA |
1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
Elisha Gray |
| Television |
England |
10/2/1926 |
John Logie Baird & Charles Francis |
Sawyer, Leblanc, Nipkow |
| Television Broadcasting |
USA |
1928 |
Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin |
RCA, W2RBX |
| Vitagraph Films |
USA |
1896 |
James Stuart Blacton |
Edison |
| Whirlwind dance shoe |
New York |
1926 |
Afson's Shoe Store, Turned Sole Slipper |
Dance Shoes, Slippers |
| Zippo Lighters |
USA |
n/a |
George G. Blaisdell |
?? |
REFERENCES:
Dance Magazine, Browser's Book Of Beginnings by Charles Panati,
Theater by Jacques Burdick | |
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