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Topic: Inventions of the 20th Century

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  Invention    Century  
  20th Century Art    20th Century Fox  
  20th Century Music    19th century American invention  
  20TH CENTURY TIME LINE  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Typewriter
Most admires:Thomas Edison,  Alexander Bell,  James Watt
Intelligence:Genius
Favorite artist(s):Leonardo da Vinci
Favorite author(s):Jules Verne
Favorite era(s):1900s,  1800s,  The future
Favorite book(s):World Almanac
Favorite great thinker(s):Alfred Nobel,  Samuel Morse,  Archimedes
Favorite composer(s):Johann Sebastian Bach
Likes to wear:Sixties,  Panties,  Spandex PVC
Favorite quote(s):"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Mandatory minimum sentences are largely 20th century inventions.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

An understanding of social inventions and institutions is absolutely essential if we wish to comprehend the reasons why war and militarism have contributed so much to human decline in the 20th century.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

The basic premise is that, while digging a large hole to hide one of Professor Farnsworth's inventions that he's hiding from the police, Fry, Bender and Leela find a time capsule from the 20th Century.
During the 20th century, man still continues to search for more accurate timepieces, consequently the inventions of the quartz movement, the digital movement, and the atomic clock.
More than 300 former and present citzens have shaped American culture in the 20th Century, including some very surprising well-known names and inventions.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Inventions like the gramophone, the radio, the record player and the television hampered piano production in the early 20th Century.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

It was "the land of the pioneer and the inventions of the 20th century had not yet brought comfort and convenience into t4 homes and settlements of the early ranchers.
The feature of consumerism became widespread specially in the 20th century when several scientific inventions changed the world and the people thoroughly.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

As far as anyone can tell women have always danced Morris, so it might have been one of those homoerotic inventions that were much in vogue in the early 20th century.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Von Neumann algebras and von Neumann dimensions are among the most beautiful and useful inventions of mathematics of the 20th century.
Doing Things the Wright Way - Thematic Unit - Investigating Influential Inventions of the 20th Century - In this lesson, students investigate 20th century inventions in order to examine how inventions reflect the historical events during which they were developed an.
The discoveries, inventions and scientific formulae of earlier centuries started changing very fast in the third decade of 20th century.
 
 
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