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January – 1918 flu pandemic: "Spanish 'flu" first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. [6] March 26 – Dr. Marie Stopes publishes her influential book Married Love in the U.K., following it with Wise Parenthood, a treatise on birth control. June–August – "Spanish 'flu" becomes pandemic. [7]
1918 Grocery bag Shopping bags are medium-sized bags, typically around 10–20 litres (2.5 to 5 gallons) in volume, that are often used by grocery shoppers to carry home their purchases. They can be single-use (disposable), used for other purposes or designed as reusable shopping bags.
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
1918: Emmy Noether: Noether's theorem – conditions under which the conservation laws are valid 1920: Arthur Eddington : Stellar nucleosynthesis 1922: Frederick Banting , Charles Best , James Collip , John Macleod : isolation and production of insulin to control diabetes
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, [ 1 ] and continued through many smaller conflicts in ...
Died in Mount Upton, New York, 9 Feb 1918". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 14 February 1918. p. 7 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.</ref> February 15 – Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer (born 1887) March 10 – Jim McCormick, baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland)
Fritz Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ⓘ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.